A Guide to the mediaeval room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room; (1907)
British Museum. Department 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 185
he body of a lion, and so it still appears in the bestiaries, and numerous textiles or sculptures of the Ro- manesque period. Popular fancy, however, imagined that it laid eggs, and the eggs of the ostrich are freely ascribed to the gryphon in mediaeval documents. The horns of all kinds of animals,… … Fig. 112. — Ibex horn, formerly described as a gryphon's claw. (with another) in the Shrine of St. Cuthbert at Durham, where three ' griffins' eggs ' were also preserved. The inventory made by Richard de Sogbrok, Keeper of the Shrine in 1383, jnentions both the claws and the eggs. GYPCIERES. See p.…
Art objects · Art, Medieval
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