Winged Mermaid from p. 199 rectodetails

Winged Mermaid from p. 199 recto

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A fifteenth-century drawing of a mermaid with wings (and breast) taken from fol. 199r of a (somewhat dubious) textbook on natural history.

The mermaid has the trunk and head of a woman, the tail of a fish, and wings, or possibly large fins.

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