Saturday, September 8, 2018

Weird things you find in medieval manuscripts.

Grrrr!



This is supposed to be a snail, from Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 109vb.

A vicious snail.

That looks like an aardvark had crawled into a nautilus shell.

What the hell? I need context. I can't find the text that went along with this image. Was someone describing some kind of dangerous snail, like a cone snail or a murex snail. "Dude. There are these snails that live in the water that, like, can bite you. They have, like, sharp teeth. Can you draw me one of those?"

Or, perhaps, it was something more sinister.....



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