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1. A shepherd with his flock.
2. Drawings of fish based on Medieval ceramic tiles.
3. The season of Capricorn; the butchering of a pig.
4. Female beekeeper.
5. Beehive.
6. A monks' garden.


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7. Harvesting leeks.

8. The production of grain.
9. Dairy scene. From The Da Costa Hours; Flemish, 1515.
10. Gathering apples. Le Rustican, Pierre de Crescens. Flemish, early 16th century.
11. Woman harvesting grain.
12. Carrying a sack of wheat to the mill. Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance, Rene I d'Anjou. French, 15th century.


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13. Dispatching a boar.
14. Wild boars. From Gaston Phoebus' Book of the Hunt, 15th Century.
15. A hen in the henyard.
16. The season of Scorpio; harvesting grapes & making wine.
17. The month of December; innkeepers slaughter a pig.
18. Harvesting grain for the mill.


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19. Stomping grapes for wine.
20. Threshing grain.
21. Cutting grapes.
22. A fox catching a rooster.
23. A manor's barn yard.
24. A shepherd with flock; detail of previous image.



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<>25. Feeding hens.
<>26. Harvesting grain.
<>27. The month of August; harvesting grain. From the Compost et Kalendrier des Bergères, Paris 1499.
<>28. Milking a cow.
<>29. A wild boar.
<>30. A cowherd with his animals.


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37.  Salmon. Jacques Vontet, La méthode de trancher les alouëttes, bequefis, & ortolans, avec toutes sortes d'autres petits oyseaux.
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Collecting geese eggs. Tacuinum sanitatis, Germany, 15th c.
39. Lambs. Maître de Charles d'Angoulême, Les secrets de l'histoire naturelle, contenant les merveilles et choses mémorables du monde, 1485, Paris.
40. Peasants labor in field & forest. Gilles de Rome, Le Régime des princes, Rouen, 1450.
41. Virgil observing bees. Œuvres avec les commentaires de Servius, Paris, 15th c.
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A Rooster. Pen-and-ink drawing from Troyes 145, fol. 12.


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