SUMMER HOURS
While this is probably the most famous example of an illustration from a Book of Hours for the month of July it is also very typical as if you google search images for July+illuminated manuscripts you will get a great many images of varying quality with similar images of peasants and farmers reaping summer cereal crops and shearing sheep. The only odd thing is that the farmer and his wife or the woman shearing can afford clothing dyed lapis lazuli blue but perhaps this is simply the patreon showing off the ducal wealth that allows him to buy the most expensive blue mineral pigment for his illuminators ? That would explain other summer scenes using a much more restrained palate of colors ?
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