ing (fagots?) | Carrying fagots. |Sheep-shearing. |
| | | | |
| | | | |
|July |Mowing. | Mowing. |Mowing. |
| | | | |
|August |Reaping. | Reaping. |Reaping. |
| | | | |
|September|Threshing. | Threshing. |Sowing. |
| | | | |
|October |Sowing. | Sowing. |Beating oak. |
| | | | |
|November |Killing swine. | Killing swine. |Pressing (grapes?)|
| | | | |
|December |Baking. | Baking. |Killing swine. |
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Sec. LIV. In the private palaces, the entrances soon admitted some
concession to the Gothic form also. They pass through nearly the same
conditions of change as the windows, with these three differences:
first, that no arches of the fantastic fourth order occur in any
doorways; secondly, that the pure pointed arch occurs earlier, and much
oftener, in doorways than in window-heads; lastly, that the entrance
itself, if small, is nearly always square-headed in the earliest
examples, without any arch above, but afterwards the arch is thrown
across above the lintel. The interval between the two, or tympanum, is
filled with sculpture, or closed by iron bars, with sometimes a
projecting gable, to form a porch, thrown over the whole, as in the
perfect example, 7 _a_, Plate XIV., above. The other examples in the two
lower lines, 6 and 7, of that Plate are each characteristic of an
enormous number of doors, variously decorated, from the thirteenth to
the close of the fifteenth century. The particulars of their mouldings
are given in the final Appendix.

Sec. LV. It was useless, on the small scale of this Plate, to attempt any
delineation of the richer sculptures with which the arches are filled;
so that I have chosen for it the simplest examples I could find of the
forms to be illustrated: but, in all the more important instances, the
door-head is charged either with delicate ornaments