Folio 94r Commentary

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f94 Text: The fire-bearing stones which ignite when near each other. Iron pyrites provide the geological basis for this account. Illustration: The twelfth-century hand ends half way down the page and the text resumes in a late thirteenth-/early fourteenth-century script. The upper initial is type 2. The lower initial represents the start of the later series of initials, type 4. There is a hastily painted sketch of a hill with a circle or rock on top. The pricking is prominent. The illustration in detail