The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 45
the thirteenth century, the Bishop of Amiens was settingout for the wars, the tanners of his episcopal town were bound to supply himwith two leathern bouchiaux—one holding a hogshead, the other twenty-four setters. Some archaeologists maintain that, when there had been a very abund-ant vintage, the… … rig. 9.—A Coopers Workshop, drawn and engraved, in the Sixteenth Century, by J. Amman. bable that these ancient cisterns, which are perhaps of an earlier date thanthe Middle Ages, were more especially intended for the process of fermenta-tion—that is to say, for making wine, and not for storing it…
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