Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

018. MS M.399, fol. 9v

ca. 1515

Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 9v

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910

Occupation of the month: August―In a field, a woman binds grain into sheaves. A man threshes grain with two flails. A second man reaps grain with a sickle. Beyond, two horses, one ridden by a man, pull a cart stacked with sheaves of grain. In the background are more fields and a landscape with buildings.
The scene is within an illusionistic wood frame.