1st July is my birthday.  So, to celebrate my birthday, below are images for July from Medieval England.

Calendar page for July from Shaftesbury Psalter (England, 2nd quarter of the 12th century), shelfmark Lansdowne 383 f.6, © British Library Board.

Close up of Calendar page for July from Shaftesbury Psalter (England, 2nd quarter of the 12th century), shelfmark Lansdowne 383 f.6, © British Library Board.

Miniature of July with a man with a scythe from Folding almanac (England, 1st half of the 15th centur), shelfmark Egerton 2724, © British Library Board.

Miniature of Cancer from Shaftesbury Psalter (England, 2nd quarter of the 12th century), shelfmark Lansdowne 383 f.5v, © British Library Board.

Detail of Cancer from Psalter (England, 3rd quarter of the 11th century, probably after 1073), shelfmark Arundel 60 f.4v, © British Library Board.

Miniature of Aries (the ram), Gemini (the twins), Taurus (the bull), and Cancer (the crab) from Treatises on the Compotus (England, c1244), shelfmark Egerton 3088 f.16v,
© British Library Board.

Detail of a miniature of two men in a boat pulling in a crab from the sea (for the zodiac sign Cancer) from The Queen Mary Psalter (England, c1244),
shelfmark Royal 2 B VII f.77, © British Library Board.

Calendar page with a medallion of Cancer from Westminster Psalter (England, c1200), shelfmark Royal 2 A XXII f.7v, © British Library Board.

Calendar page with a medallion of Cancer from Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (‘The Taymouth Hours’) (England, 2nd quarter of the 14th century),
shelfmark Yates Thompson 13 f.3v, © British Library Board.

Apothecaries
 ‘Full-page miniatures of an apothecary shop, on the left, and medical consultations, on the right’ from Circa instans (France, 1st quarter 14th century),
shelfmark Sloane 1977 ff. 49v-50, © British Library Board.

Armourers
(I couldn’t find a British Library image of armourer making a suit of armour, so this beautiful image represents the armourers of Medieval & Tudor England)
 ‘Combatant mounted knights in armour and tabard’ from Military Roll of Arms (manuscript also known as Sir Thomas Holme’s Book of Arms), (England, S. E., probably London, before 1448, c. 1446), Harley 4205 ff. 15v-16, , © British Library Board.

Bakers
 ‘Baker putting loaves in oven’ from Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the ‘Smithfield Decretals’) (France, last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century), shelfmark Royal 10 E IV f. 145v, © British Library Board.

Barbers (including surgeons & dentists)
 ‘Dentist extracting teeth’ from Omne Bonum (Circumcisio-Dona Spiritui Sancti) (London, England, c1360-c1375), shelfmark Royal 6 E VI f. 503v, © British Library Board.

Basket-makers
(I couldn’t find an image of someone making a basket, so this beautiful image of The Feeding of the Five Thousand represents the basket-makers of Medieval times)
 ‘Five large baskets of bread and an apostle placing bread in a man’s cloak’ from Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (‘The Taymouth Hours’) (London, England, 2nd quarter of the 14th century), shelfmark Yates Thompson 13 f. 102, © British Library Board.

Blacksmith
 ‘Blacksmith at work’ from Book of Hours (London, c1320-c1330),
shelfmark Harley 6563 f.68v, © British Library Board.

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