Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Sirens / Single figure / With single fish tail

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XII: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Elpenor, Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Cattle of Sol) / vv. 181-191: Ulysses (bound to the mast) and his companions (with their ears stuffed) pass the Sirens

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Encyclopaedic cycles / London, Wellcome Library, MS 49 (Wellcome Apocalypse, c1420)

Further details

Artist or creator

German

Date

1420 (circa)

Location

London, Wellcome Library, 49

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Miscellany. Folio: 56v.

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Web resources

Wellcome Library (digitised version)

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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