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Phoenix

After 500 years of life the phoenix gathers aromatic branches (left) and uses them to build a funeral pyre, then burns itself to ash, from where it rises again with its youth renewed.

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British Library - Digitized Manuscripts

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British Library, Royal MS 12 C XIX, folio 49v

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