Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bestiary
England, possibly in Lincoln or York, ca. 1185
MS M.81 fol. 11v

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Bestiary: Fox feigning Death -- Among five birds, three are perched on fox, lying on its back with mouth open and tongue out. A fourth bird, on ground, pecks at fox's tongue. The fifth bird flies toward head of fox. The heads of five other foxes emerge from holes in ground below the first fox.