Miniature of a manticore, a creature with the body of a lion, the head of a man, and the tail of a scorpion, from a 13th-century English bestiary (Royal 12 F XIII).
Featured on PDR in the essay A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne
Hugh Aldersey-Williams takes a tour through Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a work which sees one of the 17th-century's greatest writers stylishly debunk all manner of myths, in particular those relating to the world of animals.
Also appearing in the essay…
Manticore
Date
13th century
From
BL Royal 12 F XIII
