Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bestiary
England, possibly in Lincoln or York, ca. 1185
MS M.81 fol. 31v

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Bestiary: Ants storing Grain -- Four ants approach collapsing stalks of grain in front of standing stalks of grain. To right, six ants, carrying grain in their mouths, climb over ant hill. Eighteen ants with grain in their mouths move in four rows toward right.