Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 161
rying off themalady or, more scientifically speaking, the bacteriaof disease to be burned and destroyed by theintense heat of the sun. This scene is carved instone on the doorway of the church at Alne; andin the border of a lancet window in the apsis ofthe cathedral at Lyons is the picture of a… … Charadrius. [Bcsiiaty. are often found in missals, prayer-books, and similaraids to devotion, as, for example, in the profuselyand curiously illustrated manuscript psalter ofIsabella of France, now in the Royal Library atMunich. The marrow of the thigh-bone and the lungs ofthis bird, which were…
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