I thought these were #hedgehogs at first but apparently they're giant #fleas?!
Found in BNF Arménien 291 Roman d'Alexandre (The Alexander Romance) f.116r, c. 1646. (There are some other neat animal illustrations in this manuscript too that I'll post later...)
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52502689n/f243.item.zoom
#ArmenianArt
For comparison, this is what the "giant fleas" look like in the
John Rylands/University of Manchester Library's version of the Romance of Alexander, 1544 - Armenian MS 3 f.102b: https://digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/MS-ARMENIAN-00003/206