The Way to Skin and Cut Up a Stag

1850 drawing from a 15th-century MS. illustration in "Phoebus, and his Staff for hunting Wild Animals"

Published in Paul LaCroix, Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

The man in the upper right holds a bucksaw, which he will use to cut the stag into large pieces after it has been skinned.

The bucksaw is an attribute of St. Simon the Apostle.

Source: Project Gutenberg