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WINTER

F. 1r January. Man at table, feasting

with a servant in attendance.

F. 1v January . Aquarius empties

two pitchers into a stream.

F. 2r February. Couple warming

themselves by the fire.

F. 2v February. Pisces, as two

fish, in a landscape.

F. 3r March . Two men pruning vines.

F. 3v March. Aries, the ram, in a

landscape with a town in the distance.

SPRING

F. 4r April. A young man handing

a flower to a lady in an enclosed garden.

F. 4v April. Taurus, the bull, in

a landscape with a town in the distance.

F. 5r May. A couple hawking

with dogs.

F. 5v. May. Gemini, here a nude male

and female youths half hidden behind a shield.

F. 6r June. Man harvesting with a

sythe, with two wheat sheaves behind him.

F. 6v June. Cancer , the crab,

by a stream.

SUMMER

F. 7r July. Two men cutting corn,

with a town in the distance.

F. 7v July . Leo, the lion, in a

landscape with a town in the distance.

F. 8r August. Two men threshing in a barn

F. 8v August. Virgo, the maiden,

with two wheat sheaves.

F. 9r September. Two men treading

grapes and pouring wine into a barrel.

F. 9v September. Libra, the maiden,

holding scales, standing in a room.

AUTUMN

F. 10r October. Man sowing

winter wheat from apron

F. 10v October. Scorpio by the water.

F. 11r November. Two men standing

by a building watching hogs feed.

F. 11v November. Sagittarius,

centaur with bow, in a landscape.

F. 12r December.Couple butchering a hog,

in a room with a wheat sheaf in the background

F. 12v Capricorn, ibex-like, half-serpent.

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