A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 184
le and the body of a lion, and so it still appears inthe bestiaries, and numerous textiles or sculptures of the Ro-manesque period. Popular fancy, however, imagined that it laideggs, and the eggs of the ostrich are freely ascribed to the gryphonin mediaeval documents. The horns of all kinds of… … Fig. 112.—Ibex horn, formerly described as a gryphons claw. (with another) in the Shrine of St. Cuthbert at Durham, wherethree griffins eggs were also preserved. The inventory madeby Richard de Segbrok, Keeper of the Shrine in 1383, mentionsboth the claws and the eggs. GYPCIERES. See p. 242. HALL…
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