Labours of the months, plate 1, 13th century. January: man drinking and warming himself, February: woman holding a candle, March: lumberjack cutting timber, April, man holding vine branches, May, falconer with bird of prey and decoy, June: man carrying planks for building. 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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