BOURDICHON, Jean
(b. 1457, ?, d. 1521, Tours)

Missal of Jacques de Beaune

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Manuscript (Ms. lat. 886)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

This illustration for the month of January in the calendar of this Missal shows a comfortable bourgeois sitting down to a meal of small birds roasted whole. He has a knife but no fork.




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