Folio 71r Illustration detail

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f71 Text: The snake sheds its skin by scraping through a narrow crack in a rock. Illustration: The snake squeezes through a slot in a narrow tower. Although the text says the snake goes through a rima (crack) in a rock, most of the second family of Bestiaries show the snake going through a masonry tower. This image appeared due to a misreading of the word rima for ruina(ruin).