Image: Matthew Paris 1251 sketch of Crossbill eating fruit
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Description: Mediaeval sketch by Matthew Paris in his Chronica Majora (1251) of a Crossbill, Loxia curvirostra, holding a fruit in its beak. He has extended a line of the text into the margin below the drawing, with the Latin words Alaudis parum majores ('a little bigger than Larks').
Title: Matthew Paris 1251 sketch of Crossbill eating fruit
Credit: The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora
Author: Suzanne Lewis (modern text); Matthew Paris (mediaeval author and artist)
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