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Image © Hildesheim, St Godehard

All twelve months of the year are depicted in roundels as Labours of the Month. Below them on the right is the sign of the Zodiac. All the calendrical numbers and letters are explained under Keeping Time, the selection of saints is discussed under Feast Days, and the various scribes under Scribes.

In July, a man holds a sickle and sheaf of corn, reaping. The sign is Leo, the lion. To the right of the roundel is a partly trimmed scribal notation in black ink.

Note the addition on 24th July of St Cristine, virgin, not part of the original text.


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