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Jean Pichore, workshop of
(Paris, fl. 1500-1520)
Men Sowing, October miniature from the Calendar of a Book of Hours (122 x 67 mm.)
France, Paris, c. 1515
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This charming leaf comes from a Book of Hours in the Morgan Library that lacks its Calendar (MS M.286). Prefacing the feasts for the month of October is the traditional occupation for the month; it depicts men sowing seeds for the winter wheat harvest. Recent scholarship has attributed Morgan M.286 to an illuminator in the workshop of Jean Pichore or a close follower. An unusual feature of this leaf is its final quatrain, belonging to a sequence of verses relating the years in a man’s life (the Ages of Man) to the months of the year. These quatrains appear more commonly in printed Horae; their appearance in this manuscript seems likely to be an adoption from such a source. |
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