A Medieval Whale: MS. Ashmole 1511, Folio 86v
Medieval Whaling. Arr! venasaphena shared this beautiful representation of a whale from Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511, Folio 86v: A common narrative about ...
Author: Giulio Menna
Giulio is an MA graduate in Book and Digital Media Studies from Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is also system librarian at Leiden University Library. Founder and developer of Sexy Codicology and the DMMmaps Project; lover of medieval manuscripts and of all things digital.
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