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Babilonici pisces - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 113r a1
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Dies - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 114v a2
Synacus - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 109v b1
LB 100 Fol 181 V Illuminated medieval manuscript
A woman dressed in purple with head wound - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 043v a1
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Testudo (snail) - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 135v b1
Iphotamus - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 106v b2
Sturio (sturgeon) - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 119v b2
Anguilla (eel) - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 111v b1
Vultur (vulture) - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 101v b1
Accipender (turtle) - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 112v b1
Monachus marinus - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 107v b2
Lagepus (ptarmigan) - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 093v a1
Echinus (sea-urchin) - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 114v b2
Testudo (snail) - Der naturen bloeme - Jacob van Maerlant - KB KA 16 - 109v b2
Zusammenfassung
Testudo (snail) - miniature from folio 109v from Der naturen bloeme (KB KA 16) by Jacob van Maerlant
Topics depicted in this miniature
Molluscs: snail (25F72(SNAIL))
This miniature is part of the lefthand side folio 109v
"Der naturen bloeme" is a Middle Dutch poem written by Jacob van Maerlant, a 13th-century poet and writer. The poem is part of the "Naturen Bloeme" cycle, a collection of allegorical poems that focus on the nature of creation and the cycles of the seasons. The poems were written in a courtly style.
The manuscript was produced around 1350 in either Utrecht or Flanders and contains about 460 miniatures besides a number of drawings of the heavenly spheres. The most interesting are those of ‘homines monstruosi’, strange races that were said to live in distant lands and of imaginary animal species. Among them are cannibals and cyclopses, and people with only one leg and feet so large that they could be used as a parasol. Jacob van Maerlant (1230/1235-c.1291) produced a Der naturen bloeme, is an adaptation of De natura rerum by the philosopher and theologian Thomas of Cantimpré (c.1200-c.1272). De natura rerum itself derives from a Greek text written in Alexandria in the second century AD, in which some fifty animals, monsters, and minerals are described.