"Dragon" 25v

[Skoove]

I thought this was interesting, stumbled on while looking for something else

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I was thinking about this the whole time I was reading this thread! I have always thought that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. might be a 'peridexion tree' (which I think is what this is). They were very common in medieval herbals and almost always drawn with the same elements. 

Basically, a tree with doves/pigeons in it and then a dragon waiting down below to eat/attack them. It was supposed to be a metaphor for Chistianity (like everything else in the medieval period), with the doves being Christians who are protected within the salvation of the tree (the Chruch/Chistianity) and the dragon being basically everyone else (because they are evil and deceptive etc.). 

Here is an example of what they tended to look like with a rather unfortunate dove who tried to leave the tree.
   

I actually have another guess which doesn't involve a dragon at all but I'll leave it out of this dragon-centric thread.

[Koen G]

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Now there's an armadillo - look at those bands!

Might this be a "little dragon" through some Artemisia dracunculus (tarragon) association?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

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I can't really read Latin, but isn't the first quarter-page explaining that amber is the spines of fish eaten and digested by a whale ("balena") -- which is supposed to be the creature depicted therein?

All the best, --stolfi

[Doireannjane]

The word for water is mentioned 10 times. I think this is marshland or aquatic. Looks like a silly depiction of a common lizard. Look at the leggies lol

[Doireannjane]

dragons are kinda like newts :o

[Bluetoes101]

An interesting one as it is a tree shown as all green. I believe it is the nuts fruits that are poisonous, but you'd never know from the image..  

BL Egerton 747 , f.067v-068r

Nux Vomica

   

[Bluetoes101]

I'm sure I just noticed something probably pointed out 5000 times before, as with everything.. but "snake?" (f89r1) ... Brachiosaurus?  
Figured it probably should go in this thread either way as there's a chance they are linked 

   

[MarcoP]

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Now there's an armadillo - look at those bands!

Might this be a "little dragon" through some Artemisia dracunculus (tarragon) association?

Since a few years, better scans of the Occitan / Provençal herbal are available 

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[Doireannjane]

I thought this was interesting, stumbled on while looking for something else

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Now there's an armadillo - look at those bands!

Might this be a "little dragon" through some Artemisia dracunculus (tarragon) association?

Since a few years, better scans of the Occitan / Provençal herbal are available 

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Reminds me of these dudes 

[Bluetoes101]

Thanks Marco, I almost want to moan about it having too many dragons  
Oddly the page that jumped out to me is not a dragon...

   

This page has a double dose of VMS comparisons

   

Bonus - Elephant for Koen..