Folio 59v Illustration detail

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f59v Text: The peacock . Its name pavo comes from the sound of its cry. Its meat is hard and difficult to cook. Illustration: A fine portrait including the peacock's tail. The text says the bird is very hard to cook. In fact the peacock was a great aristocratic delicacy but perhaps it was not often eaten by the clergy involved with producing the text.