09-06-2019, 02:03 PM
Thanks, Marco. So they eat mud, that's why it's depicted that way, surprisingly close to the text.
It seems clear in all these depictions that the 13th century illustrators (and later copyists) had often lost the connection to whatever real beast may have been at the origin of these descriptions. They did their best to come up with something based on the text.
It seems clear in all these depictions that the 13th century illustrators (and later copyists) had often lost the connection to whatever real beast may have been at the origin of these descriptions. They did their best to come up with something based on the text.