The big-foot guy is also in one of the early medieval mappae mundi in the Bodleian? Library (I think that's where I remember seeing it) and made its way into many of the copies of "John Mandeville's" adventures.
I very much get the feeling that De Rerum Naturis was inspired by multiple sources. It's a pretty extensive manuscript, one would almost have to.
I very much get the feeling that De Rerum Naturis was inspired by multiple sources. It's a pretty extensive manuscript, one would almost have to.

