f. 102v

Featured on PDR in the collection Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Liceti likened nature to an artist who, faced with some imperfection in the materials to be shaped, ingeniously creates another form still more admirable.

Image of a blemmyes

Date

ca. 1175–1200

From

Marvels of the East, Cotton MS Vitellius A XV (BL)


Underlying Rights

Public Domain Worldwide

Digital Rights

No Additional Rights

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Image Size

625 x 722 Higher res available?