January Brings the Siren: An Illuminated Manuscript for the New Year

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January Brings the Siren: An Illuminated Manuscript for the New Year
12/29/2023 08:46 AM EST

Is that mermaid holding a mirror? No, and yes. The lower border of the January calendar page from this fifteenth-century illuminated Book of Hours contains a Siren, who is holding a mirror. What is a Siren? Why it is in this Book of Hours? Learn more in this New Years post.
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