This is how pictures tell stories.
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When I look at this page it tells a story, even if I don't understand the text.
1. picture top right. A person, probably male, stands in a barrel and scatters or receives something. I think he/she is sowing something. ( The sowing ).
2nd picture. It looks like a cap or tent. I refer to it as the hedge. This is the time where you protect the plants from weeds, pests ( snails, lice, birds ). Today one would probably use nets, greenhouse, chemicals etc. Use. Symbolically possible would also be an umbrella or a hand.
3rd picture. She holds something in her hand, directed upwards. It looks like grain. I call that harvest.
Fourth frame. And again she's holding something in her hand, but now it's looking down. I know from experience that one dries herbs or even tobacco hanging down. Interestingly, it's also standing in a kind of drain. As if she were saying, the water has to go here. It is also nice to see how the bundles of herbs are hung up in old pharmacies. I just call it the drying.
5th frame. Here she is in a ???, I have no idea what it could be. But the person raises one leg, stretching the arms away from the body. It looks like she's stamping something. The grapes and wine comes to mind. It could be that she wants to crush something here. With grain, she'd have to beat it to separate the chaff from the wheat.
6th frame. A person, possibly with two baskets. I see something falling out of the baskets, which is in three different sizes. Do they use baskets as a sieve? I think there is a separation taking place. Example: seed, leaves, root. Something like this.
This is where the processing should continue, like grinding, rubbing, cutting, chopping, etc. That is the reason why I think that the Quire has a wrong order.
If I look at picture 1. again, how he stands in his barrel and sows something, and if I connect it with plants, the step to the signs of the zodiac and the seasons with the symbolism is not far. And when I think that he even defined the beginning of spring clearly in the book, the whole VM has a harmonious course.
This also explains why it is more a plough than a bird on page 1.
Or in Quire there are 20 yellow and red stars.
Cause and cure. ( Determination of the disease - application of the medicine. )
When I look at the whole book there is nothing really strange except the text.