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Harness Craftsmanship. Preparation of Saddle Cloths
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Farming. Ploughing
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Harness Craftsmanship. Selling Saddles
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Harness Craftsmanship. Saddle Fixtures
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Harness Craftsmanship. Selling Saddle Cloths
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Oil Production. Preparation of Dishes for Sesame Oil
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Oil Production. Selling Oil
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Oil Production. Pressing Oil
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Oil Production. Pressing Oil
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Wax and Soap Production. Selling Candles
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Wax and Soap Production. Making Wax
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Wax and Soap Production. Selling Soap
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Wax and Soap Production. Soap and Wax Tools
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Wax and Soap Production. Soap Production
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Book of Hours for Use in Paris: The Hours of René of Anjou
This book of hours was written around 1435−36 in the workshop of the Rohan Master in Paris for René of Anjou (1409−80), the second son of Louis II of Anjou. The portraits of Louis II and René are to...
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The Life and Miracles of Saint Francis of Assisi
Bonaventure de Bagnoregio (circa 1217−74), the great Franciscan theologian also known as “the Seraphic Doctor,” began writing Legenda major sancti Francisci (The life and miracles of Saint Francis of...
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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette (Lancelot, the knight of the cart) is the third Arthurian novel written by Chrétien de Troyes (circa 1135−circa 1181). It was composed between 1176 and 1181 at...
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Three Tales
While in financial trouble at the end of the 1870s, Gustave Flaubert (1821−80) wrote a series of shorter works of fiction before going back to his difficult task of writing Bouvard et Pécuchet. Un...
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A Compilation of Works by Pseudo-Oppian, Xenophon, and Manuel Philes
This manuscript is a compilation of several works in Greek by three different authors. Ange Vergèce (1505−69), a calligrapher to the king during the reigns of François I, Henri II, and Charles IX,...
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Hernani
Hernani, ou l’Honneur castillan is a play in five acts by Victor Hugo (1802−85), which opened at the Comédie-Française in February 1830. Set during the Spanish Renaissance, it recounts the rivalries...
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