Dragons, Dogs & Amadillos?

[KnoxMix]

Aplogies for asking again, but what are the arguments against the critter of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. being a pangolin?

Pangolins today are found in Asia and in Africa.  While we may not have Medieval European pictures or descriptions of them, surely there were at least some Europeans who had seen them, or seen pictures of them in non-European books (Arabic, Persian, Indian, ...).

Thus, even if one hates the "Chinese" Theory, I don't see how one can dismiss the possibility that the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. critter was meant to be a pangolin.  The Scribe could have copied it from a sketch by the Author, or cribbed it from any some book (now lost) that he could have used as inspiration for the decorative parts of his drawings.

Although it is also quite possible that it was meant to be a dragon, which in turn was meant to be an arch-snake, to emphasize that the the treatment of snake bites was a topic of that page...

All the best, --stolfi

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Hi, 

The drawing shows an animal with a big neck, paws like a fox or wolf, nose like a fox or wolf, tail like a fox or wolf, ears like a fox or wolf, in the same posture as a pouncing fox.

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Knox