Sunday, October 2, 2016

A Hunting Hare

What prey is it hunting?




This is from  Pontifical of Guillaume Durand (Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 165r). This image is a hare, riding a greyhound, with a snail being held as if it were a hunting hawk. If that isn't weird enough, folio 76v has a cat, being ridden by a rat with a trained hunting starling.


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