Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bestiary
England, possibly in Lincoln or York, ca. 1185
MS M.81 fol. 61v

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Bestiary: Pelican in her Piety -- One of three pelicans is pecked at breast by two young and on back by two more young. The second pelican holds neck of dead young on ground. The third pelican feeds one young by ejecting blood from its beak into beak of young.