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Français : Secrets de l'histoire naturelle, BnF, ms Français 1377, fol. 27: "Éthiopie est une région qui est située vers la partie de midy, où il y a moult grant multitude de bestes venimeuses comme serpens, basiliques, grans dragons et aspics, et si y a des licornes et de toutes autres bestes cruelles à si grant abondance qu'il semble que ce soient fourmis qui sortent d'une fourmilière, tant y en a." (inscription)
English: Secrets de l'histoire naturelle, Manuscript Français 1377, fol. 27, Ethiopia, and its native fauna and peoples. Inscription mentions "basilisks, great dragons, and aspics (asps), and unicorns.. in great abundance like ants from an ant's nest". Shows cave-dwellers (troglodytes, far left), a shaggy man with club, headless people with face on chest (blemmyes), a dog wearing a crown before a group of men, hairy woman with a tail, man with a horn, man with large ears (panotti). |
| Date | circa 1428 |
| Source | Bibliothèque national ((Please provide a date))“Peuples fabuleux et faune d'Éthiopie”, in Exposition: Bestiaire du Moyen Âge[1] (Français 1377, fol. 27) |
| Author | maître de Marguerite d'Orléans |
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