A wonderfully bizarre ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 14th century, Lyon. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 742, f. 79v
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For #ManuscriptMonday: Asian #Elephants & Indian #Rhinoceroses!
Lovely miniatures in a c.1590-3 imperial illuminated manuscript of The Memoirs of the Mughal Emperor Babur (r.1526-30)
British Library OR 3714, f. 378r + 379r
"Originally written in Chaghatai Turkish and translated into Persian at his grandson Akbar’s request by Mīrzā ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Khān."
https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=or_3714_f378r
https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=or_3714_f379r
![digital scan of f.379r, illuminated manuscript miniature panting depicting a pair of Indian Rhinoceroses in a landscape [with Persian text]](https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/114/020/876/634/395/827/original/4b2f61d409fe0989.png)
digital scan of f.379r, illuminated manuscript miniature panting depicting a pair of Indian Rhinoceroses in a landscape [with Persian text]
![digital scan of f.378r, illuminated manuscript miniature panting depicting a herd of Asian Elephants in a landscape [with Persian text]](https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/114/020/876/514/467/970/original/ee9715eadb43ba01.png)
digital scan of f.378r, illuminated manuscript miniature panting depicting a herd of Asian Elephants in a landscape [with Persian text]
Baby Friends, Elephant and Donkey, 1904 - Tuck's Animal Life Postcard
