Folio 26r Illustration detail

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f26r Text: the dove continued. As if apologising for the absence of a portrait of the dove, the writer asks the reader to take pleasure in the moral content of the text if he is unimpressed by the simplicity of the picture. Dove and hawk. These birds sit on the same perch, representing the clergy and the military, converted and sharing a monastic life together. Illustration: The dove and hawk perch facing each other under a twin domed edicule.