Autumn Grapes to Wine - 1485 Donkeys & Grapes

Tres Riches Heures du duc de Berry (Musée de Condé Ms. 65), c. 1485 detail

Autumn Grapes to Wine - Illuminated Manuscript 1440 One-Man Task?

 Pressing grapes in September. detail Flemish c. 1440.

Autumn Grapes to Wine - Illuminated Manuscript 1430 Wine Machine?

Psautier de la reine Marie, ca. 1310 VENDANGES, FOULAGE ET OUILLAGE. Grandes Heures de Rohan, Octobre, 1430-1435 Bringing harvested grapes to be treaded & pressed

Autumn Grapes to Wine - Illuminated Manuscript 1483

Wine-making, from the Golf Book (Book of Hours, Use of Rome), workshop of Simon Bening (1483-1561)  Netherlands (Bruges), c. 1540, Additional MS 24098, f. 27v

Autumn Grapes to Wine - Illuminated Manuscripts - Planting & pruning the vineyard 1100s-1500s

  Book of Hours, France, Loire, ca. 1475, MS G.1 I fol. 3r

Autumn Grapes to Wine

 Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp Dordrecht 1594-1651 The Grape Grower

Autumn Grapes to Wine

Man prunes Grape Vines. French c.1470-80. bodl_Liturg.41

Autumn Grapes to Wine

1500s  Hours of Henry VIII MS H.Illuminated by Jean Poyer- New York Pierpont Morgan Library- March - Pruning the Grape Vines

Gardeners Preparing the Good Earth - Illuminated Manuscripts

Gardeners ploughing & sowing Golf Book (Book of Hours, Use of Rome), workshop of  Simon Benning (1484-1561)  Netherlands (Bruges), c. 1540, Additional MS 24098, f. 26v

Gardeners Preparing the Good Earth - Illuminated Manuscripts

Golf Book (Book of Hours, Use of Rome), workshop of Simon Bening (1483-1561) Netherlands (Bruges), c. 1540, Additional MS 24098, f. 21r

Gardeners Preparing the Good Earth - Illuminated Manuscripts

The Tres Riches Heures du Duc Berry (Book of Hours) ca, 1412-1416 - background is Château de Saumur. Detail

Gardeners Preparing the Good Earth - 16C Illuminated Manuscripts

1515 Da Costa Hours, in Latin Illuminated by Simon Bening (1484–1561) Belgium, Bruges   Plowing and Sowing Seed

Gardeners Preparing the Good Earth - Illuminated Manuscripts

The Tres Riches Heures du Duc Berry (Book of Hours) ca, 1412-1416 - background is Château de Saumur. Detail

Gardeners Preparing the Good Earth - I14C lluminated Manuscripts

Book of Hours  Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1520 Morgan Library MS M.307 fol. 5v

Gardeners Preparing the Good Earth - Illuminated Manuscripts

 Simon Benning (1484-1561) in The Hennessy Hours 1530