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Folio 15r
De monocero; the monceros. De urso; the bear.
COMMENTARYText The monoceros[...] Illustration The monoceros has the head of a stag, the tail of a boar, elephant's feet and a horse's body
TRANSLATIONThe monoceros is a monster with a horrible bellow, the body of a horse, the feet of an elephant and a tail very like that of a deer[...] No living monoceros has ever come into man's hands, and while it can be killed, it cannot be captured
TRANSCRIPTIONEst monoceros monstrum\ mugitu horrido, equino\ corpore elephantis pedibus, cau\da simillima cervo
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Folio 14v
De caprea; the wild goat
COMMENTARYThe Monoceros