Simon Bening(...?), Book of Hours. C. 1510

Five players, each holding a one-piece wooden colf with its distictively curved head, contest a colf variant played with a small black ball. The player third form the left, in a blue tunic, indicates with his right hand that the ball is in the cup next to his foot, confirmed by the gesture of the player opposite him.

Illuminated manuscript calendar page for the month of January, from about 1510. Flemish School (?), in the manner of Simon Bening.

Private Collection, Germany (Courtesy of Eberhard König, Berlin, Germany)

Colf op het ijs. Duidelijk is te zien hoe de bal naar een putje wordt gespeeld.

De maand januari in het getijdenboek uit de school van Tours, ca. 1500.

Mezuel Brukenthal, Sibiu, Roemenië

Literature

• Golf through the ages by Michael Flannery, page 190. January 2004