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Stag

When a stag is sick it eats a snake, then drinks a large amount of water to wash both the snake's poison and the illness away. There is another (possibly misplaced) illustration of the stag on folio 21v.

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Bodleian Digital Library (Digital Bodleian)

Manuscript

Bodleian Library, MS. Bodley 764, folio 17v

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