Butter-Churns in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

	Butter Churns
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Churn lid found in York, dating to the early 13th century Fol. 65 of a 13th century psalter (BNF Latin 14284) A woman working at a churn, Bible with prologues (PML M.969, fol. 253r), last quarter of the 13th century Fols. 65v and 83, History of the Holy Grail (BNF Fr. 19162), c. 1280-1290 A cat with a butter churn, psalter (PML M.79, fol. 58v), late 13th century A monkey churning butter, book of hours (PML M.754, fol. 18r), c. 1320-1329 A man churns milk (?) in the Luttrell Psalter (British Library MS Add. 42130), c. 1325-1335 Fol. 3r from Romance of Alexander (Bodley 264), c. 1338-1344 A cat churning butter (Yale Beincke 404, fol. 148r), 14th century A crane drinks from a churn, a book of hours (Lat. liturg. f. 3, fol. 38v), c. 1382-1394 Detail from the June fresco at Castello Buonconsiglio, c. 1405-1410 A woman working at a churn, the Hours of Catherine of Cleves (PML M.917/945, fol. 36r), c. 1440 Misericord with a monk churning butter from Saint-Lucien de Beauvais, c. 1492-1500 April in the Da Costa Hours (PML M.399, fol. 5v), c. 1515 The goodwyfe made butter, her dedes war full derne, She toke ayen the butter-melke and put het in the cheyrne Ballad of a tyrranical husband c. 1500 April, a book of hours (PML M.1175, fol. 6v), c. 1525-1530 Rural scene by Marten van Cleve, 1527 Sitting figure by Albrecht Gelmers, in a choirstall at the Church of St. Katherine in Hoogstraten, c. 1532-1548 April, Heures de la bienheureuse Vierge Marie (fol. 8r), 16th century A man churning butter in The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi, 1570 A visit to the wet nurse by Marten van Cleve A butter-churn in the borders of a print of June by Etienne Delaune Woodcut of a woman at a churn Farm-girl with butter-churn and egg-basket by Pieter Pieters Two women at the churn

Butter Churns

Churn lid found in York, dating to the early 13th century
Fol. 65 of a 13th century psalter (BNF Latin 14284)
A woman working at a churn, Bible with prologues (PML M.969, fol. 253r), last quarter of the 13th century
Fols. 65v and 83, History of the Holy Grail (BNF Fr. 19162), c. 1280-1290
A cat with a butter churn, psalter (PML M.79, fol. 58v), late 13th century
A monkey churning butter, book of hours (PML M.754, fol. 18r), c. 1320-1329
A man churns milk (?) in the Luttrell Psalter (British Library MS Add. 42130), c. 1325-1335
Fol. 3r from Romance of Alexander (Bodley 264), c. 1338-1344
A cat churning butter (Yale Beincke 404, fol. 148r), 14th century
A crane drinks from a churn, a book of hours (Lat. liturg. f. 3, fol. 38v), c. 1382-1394
Detail from the June fresco at Castello Buonconsiglio, c. 1405-1410
A woman working at a churn, the Hours of Catherine of Cleves (PML M.917/945, fol. 36r), c. 1440
Misericord with a monk churning butter from Saint-Lucien de Beauvais, c. 1492-1500
April in the Da Costa Hours (PML M.399, fol. 5v), c. 1515

The goodwyfe made butter, her dedes war full derne,
She toke ayen the butter-melke and put het in the cheyrne

Ballad of a tyrranical husband c. 1500

April, a book of hours (PML M.1175, fol. 6v), c. 1525-1530
Rural scene by Marten van Cleve, 1527
Sitting figure by Albrecht Gelmers, in a choirstall at the Church of St. Katherine in Hoogstraten, c. 1532-1548
April, Heures de la bienheureuse Vierge Marie (fol. 8r), 16th century
A man churning butter in The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi, 1570
A visit to the wet nurse by Marten van Cleve
A butter-churn in the borders of a print of June by Etienne Delaune
Woodcut of a woman at a churn
Farm-girl with butter-churn and egg-basket by Pieter Pieters
Two women at the churn