Leaf from Book of Hours: August Calendar, Man Harvesting Wheat with a Sickle

late 13th century

6 cm 9 cm

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This Book of Hours was likely produced for a member of the Augustinian Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre at Lille along the Flemish-French border. The patron may have had himself depicted in the opening initial for the Penitential Psalms on fol. 125r, shown kneeling before an...

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Acquired by Léon Gruel, Paris, late 19th century [1]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, early 20th century (?); by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931. [1] His bookplate no. 68 on the front pastedown
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