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Art History Animalia

I thought these were at first but apparently they're giant ?! 😬
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...)
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1

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: digitalcollections.manchester.