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The archaeological album; or, Museum of national antiquities (1845)

Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877, Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 241

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183 THE FABULOUS NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES. Our next cut, taken from MS. Egerton (in the British Museum), No. 613, fol. 34, v°., … labouring under a dangerous illness, it would turn its head from the patient in case there was no hope of recovery ; but if the man were not fated to die, then the bird " looked him in the face, and, by so doing, took his infirmity upon itself, and flew into the air towards the sun, and burnt his…

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