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Lion and subjects PD Walters Art Museum PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muhammad_ibn_Muhammad_Shakir_Ruzmah-%27i_Nathani_-_The_Lion_King_Surrounded_by_his_Subjects_-_Walters_W659267B_-_Full_Page.jpg
Rochester Bestiary 05 Lion PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RochesterBestiaryFolio005vLion.jpg
Cathedral of Lausanne CCA SA 3.0 U Fanny Schertzer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_of_Lausanne_-_Lion_holding_the_Gospel_of_Mark.jpg
Northumberland Bestiary PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northumberlandbestiaryf8.jpg
On the Nature of the Lion PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:12th-century_painters_-_On_the_Nature_of_the_Lion,_folio_from_a_Bestiary_-_WGA15747.jpg
Lion-Fustat-Fatimid PD PRE 1929. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lion-Fustat-Fatimid.jpg
Histories de Troyes PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Histoires_de_Troyes_-_Nemeian_Lion_(Cognac).jpeg
Perindeus tree 3244. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perindeus_tree_3244.jpg
Perindens. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perindens.jpg
Bear licking a cub into shape CC0 1.0 UPDD British Library. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bear_licking_a_cub_into_shape_-_Bestiary_(1230-1240),_f.15v_-_BL_Harley_MS_4751.jpg
Oxford 1511 – Unicorno PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:85-Oxford_1511_-_Unicorno.jpg
A Bear and a Hay-weasel PD Walters Art Museum. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zakariya_ibn_Muhammad_Qazwini_-_A_Bear_and_a_Hay-weasel_-_Walters_W659101B_-_Full_Page.jpg
Oxford 1511 – Leone. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:84-Oxford_1511_-_Leone.jpg
Ursus (bear) van Maerlant PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ursus_(bear)_-_Der_naturen_bloeme_-_Jacob_van_Maerlant_-_KB_KA_16_-_071v.jpg
Giovanni Baronzio – Scenes from the Life of St Colomba. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Baronzio_-_Scenes_from_the_Life_of_St_Colomba_-_St_Colomba_Saved_by_a_Bear_-_WGA01303.jpg
Nurse bandaging a patient 13th century WELLCOME IMAGES CC0 1.0 UPDD https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nurse_bandaging_a_patient%27s_abdomen,_13th_century._Wellcome_M0010148.jpg
Cristoforo Majorana Walters Art Museum PD. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cristoforo_Majorana_-_Leaf_from_Psalter_-_Walters_W33015R_-_Obverse_Detail.jpg
Rangium (kind of deer) van Maerlant PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rangium_(kind_of_deer)_-_Der_naturen_bloeme_-_Jacob_van_Maerlant_-_KB_KA_16_-_068v_b2.jpg
Woodcutters Working at a Deer Park. CC0 1.0 UPDD MET PROJECT. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodcutters_Working_at_a_Deer_Park_(from_the_Hunting_Parks_Tapestries)_MET_DP358126.jpg
Coat of Arms of Horwich Town Council CCA SA 3.0 U https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Horwich_Town_Council.png
Virtue Non Verbis CCA SA 2.0 G kladcat/William Robinson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VIRTUTE_NON_VERBIS_detail,_William_Robinson_(cropped).jpg
Medieval Dentistry. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_dentistry.jpg
Toothache – geograph.org.uk CCA 2.0 G Richard Croft. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toothache_-_geograph.org.uk_-_804524.jpg
Hunayn ibn-Ishaq al-‘Ibadi PD. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunayn_ibn-Ishaq_al-%27Ibadi_Isagoge.jpg
Medieval wikisource PD https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_wikisource.png
Dammula (fallow deer) PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dammula_(fallow-deer)_-_Der_naturen_bloeme_-_Jacob_van_Maerlant_-_KB_KA_16_-_053v_b1.jpg
Sloane278 f.48v PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sloane278_f.48v_Elephants,Dragon,AndMandrake.jpg
O.2.14 f.60r Detail Elephant. PD. PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:O.2.14_f.60r_DetailElephant.jpg
Harley3244 f.39. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harley3244_f.39_MenMountedOnAnElephant.jpg
Elephants – British Library PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephants_-_British_Library_Royal_12_F_xiii_f11v_(detail).jpg
Monk tasting wine from a barrel. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monk_tasting_wine_from_a_barrel.jpg
Monks weighing herbs CCA SA 3.0 U Rachel Hajar. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monks_weighing_herbs.jpg
ManticoraTHoFFB1607. PD. PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ManticoraTHoFFB1607.png
Jonston1650-quadruped-TabLIII-manticore. CCA SA 4.0 I https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonston1650-quadruped-TabLIII-manticore.png
Manticore – British Library PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manticore_-_British_Library_Royal_12_F_xiii_f24v_(detail).jpg
Bodleian Library-MS Bodl 764-fol 025r-manticore PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bodleian_Library-MS_Bodl_764-fol_025r-manticore.jpg
Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter, p2 PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animal_drawings_collected_by_Felix_Platter,_p2_-_(45).jpg
Manticore 3244. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manticore_3244.jpg
Morgan M.81, f.070r-cocodrillus PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morgan_M.81,_f.070r-cocodrillus.jpg
BL-Add 11283, cocodrillus. PD. PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BL-Add_11283,_fo.008r-cocodrillus.jpg
Crocodile – British Library Royal 12 F xiii f24r PD BRITISH LIBRARY BLDC. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crocodile_-_British_Library_Royal_12_F_xiii_f24r_(detail).jpg
Hydrus 3244 PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hydrus_3244.jpg
Crocodile and hydrus, British Library Royal MS 12 C XIX, fol. 12v. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<
Hydrus 2 royal MS12 PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hydrus_2_royal_MS12.jpg
Sloane278, fol.47v-hydra&crocodillus. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sloane278,_fol.47v-hydra%26crocodillus.jpg
Two three-headed crested hydras PD. PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_three-headed_crested_hydras_or_serpents_with_weasel-like_bodies.jpg
Salamander from the Story of Alchemy PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salamander_from_The_Story_of_Alchemy_and_the_Beginnings_of_Chemistry.jpg
Salamandre 3244. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salamandre_3244.jpg
Bern Cod.318, f.017v-salamandra PD. PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bern_Cod.318,_f.017v-salamandra.jpg
Salamander. (Wiener Dioskurides). PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salamander_(Wiener_Dioskurides).jpg
A salamander unharmed in the fire. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_salamander_unharmed_in_the_fire.jpg
Salamandre royal MS12 PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salamandre_royal_MS12.jpg
Salamander Aberdeen Bestiary. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Саламандра._Миниатюра_из_Абердинского_бестиария.png
Devon and Cornwall notes and queries 1920. PD IABI PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Devon_and_Cornwall_notes_and_queries_(1920)_(14777178951).jpg
Basilic Harley 3244. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilic_Harley_3244.jpg
BL-Add 11283, fo.025v-basilicus. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BL-Add_11283,_fo.025v-basilicus.jpg
Aberdeen Bestiary Basilisk PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aberdeen_Bestiary_Basilisk.jpg
Basilik royal MS 12 PD. PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilik_royal_MS_12.jpg
The Alchemist WELLCOME IMAGES CCA SA 4.0 I. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Alchemist._Wellcome_M0005191.jpg
Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. IABI PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Science_and_literature_in_the_Middle_Ages_and_the_Renaissance_(1878)_(14578138899).jpg
The Unicorn in captivity MET CC0 1.0 UPDD. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Unicorn_in_Captivity_(from_the_Unicorn_Tapestries)_MET_DP118991.jpg
DomenichinounicornPalFarnese. PD. PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DomenichinounicornPalFarnese.jpg
Unicorn 3244. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unicorn_3244.jpg
Unicorn royal MS12 PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unicorn_royal_MS12.jpg
Unicorn Aberdeen Bestiary PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F15r-aberdeen-best-detail.jpg
Unicorn WELLCOME L0001820 CCA SA 4.0 I WELLCOME. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unicorn._Wellcome_L0001820.jpg
Unicorn hunt – British Library Royal 12 F xiii f10v PD BRITISH LIBRARY BLDC https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unicorn_hunt_-_British_Library_Royal_12_F_xiii_f10v_(detail).jpg
Medieval wine conservation PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_wine_conservation.jpg
Gesner Narwhal sea unicorn. PD PRE 1929. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gesner_Narwhal_sea_unicorn.jpg
Horn of the narwhal (Monodon monoceros) WELLCOME CCA SA 4.0 I https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horn_of_the_narwhal_(Monodon_monoceros),_or_horn_of_the_unic_Wellcome_V0018439.jpg
Medieval miniature book illustration of Bonnacon PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_miniature_book_illustration_of_Bonnacon_(bonasus_or_bonacho)_legendary_animal_expelling_caustic_feces_etc._Helmingham_Herbal_and_Bestiary,_ca._1500,_Yale_Center_for_British_Art,_f._15v_publicdomainreview.org.jpg
Bonnacon Aberdeen. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_miniature_book_illustration_of_Bonnacon_(bonasus_or_bonacho)_legendary_animal_expelling_caustic_feces_etc._Bodleian_Library,_MS._Bodley_764,_ca._1250,_f._16r_publicdomainreview.org.jpg
Medieval miniature book illustration of Bonnacon PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_miniature_book_illustration_of_Bonnacon_(bonasus_or_bonacho)_legendary_animal_expelling_caustic_feces_etc._Psalter_of_Isabelle_of_France,_ca._1308,_Bayerische_Staatbibliothek,_Gall.16,_f._33r_publicdomainreview.org.jpg
Medieval miniature book illustration of Bonnacon PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_miniature_book_illustration_of_Bonnacon_(bonasus_or_bonacho)_legendary_animal_expelling_caustic_feces_etc._Worksop_Bestiary,_ca._1185,_Morgan_Library,_MS_M.81,_f._37r_publicdomainreview.org.jpg
Medieval miniature book illustration of Bonnacon PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_miniature_book_illustration_of_Bonnacon_(bonasus_or_bonacho)_legendary_animal_expelling_caustic_feces_etc._Northumberland_Bestiary_ca._1260_Getty_Museum_MS._100_f._26v_publicdomainreview.org.jpg
Medieval miniature book illustration of Bonnacon PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_miniature_book_illustration_of_Bonnacon_(bonasus_or_bonacho)_legendary_animal_expelling_caustic_feces_etc._De_Natura_animalium,_ca._1285,_Bibliothèque_Municipale_de_Douai,_Ms._711,_f._8r_publicdomainreview.org_02.jpg
Medieval miniature book illustration of Bonnacon PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_miniature_book_illustration_of_Bonnacon_(bonasus_or_bonacho)_legendary_animal_expelling_caustic_feces_etc._The_Hague,_MMW,_10_B_25,_ca._1450,_f._8r_publicdomainreview.org.jpg
Peridexion Tree Medieval Bestiary B3, B5, B6 all PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70< https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Peridexion_Tree?file=Img375.jpg
Dragon, the worst of the serpents Oxford Bestiary HARLEY MS 3244 PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast262.htm
Scitalis serpens PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scitalis_serpens.jpeg
Peterborough cat. PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peterborough_cat.jpg
Maastricht Book of Hours PD PRE 1929/AUTHOR+100<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maastricht_Book_of_Hours,_BL_Stowe_MS17_f058r_(detail).png
Elephant & Child 13th C Bestiary PD Pre 1929/AUTHOR+70<. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BnF_Latin_6838_B,_fo.004v-elefant%26draco.jpg
STAG Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CCA BY NC SA 4.0 I. https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery162.htm
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