Lilienfeld Concordantiae caritatis, HS 151

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Jonah resembling the nymph on  VM f83r

Illustration #284 is about the text on the following page #285. It depicts a sea monster commonly known as the "Sea Monk" (monachus maris). I believe the illustration shows the monster about to drown one of its victims (it is essentially a variant of the mermaid theme).

Liber nature dicit quod monachus est monstrum in mari, super femur ut monachus, infra ut piscis.... (The Book of Nature says that the sea-monk is a monster of the sea, above the thigh like a monk, below like a fish)


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EDIT: maybe in the next few days I can translate passages that might be of interest. But I need image numbers or links, I don't have the time to hunt for individual details among all these illustrations.