Folio 19r Commentary

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f19r Text: Dogs, their habits.. The text here describes the missing illustrations of the dog detecting his master's murderer. Comment: The illustration refers to the stories overleaf on f19v.It is divided into three panels, the top two referring the dog who carries some meat over a bridge and seeing its own reflection in the water, drops the meat to sieze the reflection. Below are two dogs licking their wounds with their healing tongues. The text on f19v deals with these two episodes in the opposite order. This page shows an initial indicator 's' in red, and a quire mark (d) at the bottom. The illustration in detail