Happy June!

Medieval Books of Hours usually had a set of calendar pages to list the feast days of each month. These often contained illustrations of secular activity appropriate to the month and, oddly, the astrological sign for that month.

Today we begin a new month and it seems only right to look at a couple of June pages:

June page of the so-called "Hours of Henry VIII," illustrated by Jean Poyer.

June page of the DaCosta Hours, illustrated by Simon Bening.

These two pages come from Books of Hours illustrated primarily by the Limbourg brothers:

June page for Les Belles Heures of the Duc de Berry;

June page for the Tres Riches Heures of the Duc de Berry, illustrated by the Limbourg brothers.