Thirteenth century

Why are manticores always hipsters?

From: Bestiary
Image from: British Library, Royal MS 12 C XIX, f. 29v

Source: The internet is a place of theft. And I was a notorious thief here. Shame on me, but I will make amends if I ever have EEBO access again. But life out here is hard for the unaffiliated academic.

First posted on Twitter on 17 January 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Bestiary, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from British Library, Royal MS 12 C XIX, f. 29v. Copied into this book the ſeventeenth day of January, 2016. Finis.

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Bestiary.
British Library, Royal MS 12 C XIX, f. 29v.

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