Cover illustration: Illustration for the month of June from the Rohan Master Book of Hours, a prayer book based on the calendar of religious events through the year. The illustrations in such medieval prayer books represented the work of the season: here a peasant mows a meadow. The crayfish in the sky represents the zodiacal sign of Cancer. The marginal painting depicts the tree of life in the Garden of Eden, in this case bearing human heads instead of fruit. (Reproduced from the Rohan Master Book of Hours.) (see Battey, pp. 1769-1780.)
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