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.

014. MS M.399, fol. 7v

ca. 1515

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

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 7v

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

Occupation of the month: June―Within a landscape setting, amid a flock of sheep, two men shear sheep as a third man looks on. He supports himself with a crutch, and his right hand is in sling. In the background, a path leads to buildings at the base of a hill. A deer and a rabbit are on the hill. Beside the building, a couple is seated on a bench under a tree.
The scene is within an illusionistic wood frame.