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A 1607 woodcut of a manticore, scanned from Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts.  The artist is unknown.  Mediæval zoological treatises, like Tumblr, rarely credit the artists.

A 1607 woodcut of a manticore, scanned from Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts.  The artist is unknown.  Mediæval zoological treatises, like Tumblr, rarely credit the artists.

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Tagged: woodcut, curious woodcuts of fanciful and real beasts, dover pictorial archive, manticore, mantichora, conrad gesner, konrad gesner, konrad von gesner, mythical beast, creature, monster, mythology, folklore, legend, .