Folio 44v - the vulture, continued.
Folio 45r - the vulture, continued.
COMMENTARY
Text
The vulture. The female vulture gives birth without copulation, like the Virgin Mary. Vultures know when death is near.
Illustration
two fierce birds oppose each other in a circle.
Comment
The Bestiary illustrators did not know vultures, so the bird tends to look similar to the eagle. There is a faint sketch of two concentric circles to the left of the illustration. Within the circles it is just possible to discern the neck of the right vulture. Initial type 2.
COMMENTARY
Text
The vulture feeds on dead bodies.
Comment
On the third line, the addition in the margin 'si iacens' has not been inserted in the gap in the text.