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Marvels of the East, opening, fol. 039v-040r
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Marvels of the East, opening, fol. 039v-040r
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"Similar ants eat male camel. Gold seeker escapes of female camel (which seeks its ; young one across a river). Elephant. White giant with two faces. Copies a prototype of 11th century, probably London, B.L., Cotton MS. Tiberius B.V. ".
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  • Inter duas has amnes colonia est Locothea que inter Nilum et Brixontem posita est. Nam Nilus est caput fluuiorum et per Aegiptum fluit quam Aegiptii archoboleta uocant, que est aqua magna. In his locis nascitur multitude magna elephantorum.
  • Nascuntur et ibi homines habentes staturam pedum .xv. corpus habentes candidum, duas in una habentes capite facies. rubra genua. naso longo. capillis nigris. Cum tempus gignendi fuerit., suis manibus transferuntur in Indiam et ibi prolem reddunt.
  • Item liconia in Gallia nascuntur homines tripertito colore, quorum capita capita leonum longi (28) pedibus .xx. ore amplissimo sicut uannum. hominem cum cognouerint, aut si quis persequatur, longe fugiunt et sanguine sudent. Hii putantur homines fuisse.
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    28. om. longi T cognouerint] -unt T
Date 12th century, middle
Medium Manuscript, parchment
Dimensions 145 x 100 mm
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 614
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Oxford, UK
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