Labours of the months, plate 2, 13th century. July: cutting grass with a scythe August: cutting wheat with a sickle, September: sowing seeds, October: harvesting grapes for wine, November: harvesting acorns for pigfeed, December: butchering a pig with an axe. From a manuscript Psalter, MS 147, Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal. Chromolithograph by Emile Beau after Claudius Joseph Ciappori, from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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