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Marginal drawing of an Elephant and Castle from BL Burn 216, f. 33
Marginal drawing of an 'Elephant and Castle'; the adjacent text describes King Pyrrhus's battle elephants, with decorated initials 'A'(nno) and 'I'(psi) in Orosius's Historiarum adversum paganos, and eighteenth-century ink pagination by David Swan. Image taken from f. 33 of Historia adversus paganos. Written in Latin.
Creator
- Orosius
- Orosius
Subject
- British Library Burney Collection
- BL Burn 216
- f. 33
- Protogothic
Type of item
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- illuminated manuscripts
- Illuminated manuscript
Date
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- 1125 - 1174
- 1125/1174
Creator
- Orosius
- Orosius
Subject
- British Library Burney Collection
- BL Burn 216
- f. 33
- Protogothic
Type of item
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- illuminated manuscripts
- Illuminated manuscript
Date
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- 1125 - 1174
- 1125/1174
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain. Attribution to the British Library is recommended. For further details please visit: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/reuse.asp
Places
- England, N. (Yorkshire)
Identifier
- c3907-08
Extent
- 250 x 170 (200 x 130) in 2 columns
Format
- JPEG
Language
- la
Is part of
- http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1577
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1348
Relations
- Historia adversus paganos
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-03-26T11:21:27.110Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2015-05-15T11:16:36.532Z