
ca. 1515
Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)
Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 14r
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910
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Zodiac sign: Capricornus―A calendar page is shown within an illusionistic wood frame. Along the bottom border is a winter landscape. Within the landscape, a goat is enclosed in an illusionistic roundel frame.