Date | Description | Source | Reference |
11th century. | The Birdcatcher is seated under a white awning or the roof of a bell tent, dark oval apex, guy ropes and pegs, black dots (two in pairs on the left) which could be the inner attachment points of the guy ropes, pole. | Left 66. Springtime Activities in the Countryside from the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzos, eleventh century. Tempera on parchment. Bibliothéque de France, Paris (MS. gr. 533, fol. 34). | Mathews, T.F., Byzantium from Antiquity to the Renaissance, 1998, New York, p. 88. |
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