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Divination and prophecy / Lapidaries / Individual minerals / Mermecoleon (stone that swims to the surface of the sea and opens itself)
Flora and Fauna / Animals / Cycles / Bestiaries / Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 100 (Paris, c1230-1250)

Further details

detail; the name Mermecoleon normally denotes an ant-lion. However, here it is a stone that can open itself like a clam, contains flesh, and ascends to the surface of the sea to collect dew.

Artist or creator

Paris

Date

1230 (circa) - 1250

Location

Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, 100

Associated persons

Ian Jones (The Warburg Institute) (Photographer (analogue))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 40v.

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Acknowledgements

Photographed with kind permission of Master and Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

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