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The Aberdeen Bestiary. F16r T he fox is crafty and deceitful. When it is hungry it rolls in red earth to look as if it is covered in blood. It feigns death by holding its breath. Birds come to sit on the body whereupon the fox jumps up and eats them. .
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The Aberdeen Bestiary F16r The fox is crafty and deceitful. When it is hungry it rolls in red earth to look as if it is covered in blood. It feigns death by holding its breath. Birds come to sit on the body whereupon the fox jumps up and eats them. f35r Text: Pelicans live in Egypt, and are devoted to their young. The fledglings fight their parents who kill them The mother bird pierces her side and as her blood flows over the bodies of her babies, they return to life. Illustration: the narrative is divided into three scenes showing the babies attacking their parent, the parents killing the babies and the mother piercing her side to resurrect her offspring.
The Aberdeen Bestiary The lamb: symbolic of Christ f26r Text: the dove continued. As if apologising for the absence of a portrait of the dove, the writer asks the reader to take pleasure in the moral content of the text if he is unimpressed by the simplicity of the picture. Dove and hawk. These birds sit on the same perch, representing the clergy and the military, converted and sharing a monastic life together.
