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  • 15r

    Folio 15r

    De monocero; the monceros. De urso; the bear.

    COMMENTARY

    Text The monoceros[...] Illustration The monoceros has the head of a stag, the tail of a boar, elephant's feet and a horse's body

    TRANSLATION

    The 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

    TRANSCRIPTION

    Est monoceros monstrum\ mugitu horrido, equino\ corpore elephantis pedibus, cau\da simillima cervo

  • 14v

    Folio 14v

    De caprea; the wild goat

    COMMENTARY

    The Monoceros

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