The bakers worked at night
so the people could have their bread in the morning. The baker tends
the oven. The apprentice arranges the freshly baked loaves. In the
shadows a woman seems to be stealing a loaf, but perhaps she is either
the baker's wife, or an early customer.
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A lady is having a fitting
in the shop of the tailor. Tailors not only had to be attentive to
fashion and the customers desires, but also was expected to disguise
his patrons physical deformities.
![SCN 1703](poland1703.JPG)
The bowmaker is a
craftsmen who made the weapons used by medieval people for hunting and
self-defense. A specialty within the craft was that of the fletcher
who fixed the feathers to the arrow shaft to help it fly straight.
![SCN 1704](poland1704.JPG)
The Behem Codex is
preserved in the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow, Poland.
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