Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 189
ine and women separate aman from God, evidently an inference from theadmonitions contained in Prov. xxxi. 3-5. The fiction of the antelope is alluded to byminnesingers in illustration of the fate of maliciousand meddlesome courtiers, who are finally takenand destroyed in the web of their own… … Antelope on the Euphrates. (^Psalter of Isabella of France.) The mishap of the antelope was a favouritetheme of mediaeval artists, who usually gave only thefinal scene, in which the entangled beast is killed;in the engraving, taken from the illuminatedpsalter of Isabella of France, the whole story…
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