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This is our version of Matthew Paris's elephant 🐘 There's the elephant keeper too, Henry de Flor!

The one with floating trunk & no keeper is from BL Cotton MS Nero D.I & we agree, less cute 😉

CCCC MS 016i, f. ii recto:
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Image viewing window from The Parker Library On the Web, showing an image of an elephant and the animal keeper plus some text in Latin about the animal, taken of a medieval manuscript held at the Parker Library. On the left on white background is information about the image; the top line shows the source manuscript identification : Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 016i: Matthew Paris OSB, Chronica maiora II.
May 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM