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Text with three miniatures, illustration from 'De Proprietatibus Rerum', by Bartholomaeus Anglicus and Vivaldo del...

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BL3080868
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Text with three miniatures, illustration from 'De Proprietatibus Rerum', by Bartholomaeus Anglicus and Vivaldo del Belcalzer, 1309 (ink & colour on vellum)
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Italian School, (14th century) / Italian
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British Library, London, UK
Medium
ink and colour on vellum
Date
1309 AD (C14th AD)
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Various species of mythical headless men were rumored, in antiquity and later, to inhabit remote parts of the world. They are variously known as akephaloi ( headless ones) or Blemmyes and described as having a mouth in their chest and eyes in their shoulders.

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tree / monster / fantastic creature / grotesque / foot / creatures / men / enormous / ears / long / shoulders / fantastical / figures / manuscript / crossed / legs / single / tree / hooves / mouth / monstrous / creature / headless / illumination / cloven / eyes / grotesque / hoof / chest / flowering / short / monsters / ear / blemmyes / sciopod / grotesques / noses / mythical / lip / blemmyae / panotii / akephaloi / blemmye
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