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Memnonides

The memnoides birds are from Greek myhology. Every year they commeorate the death of Memnon by fighting over his tomb. The scribe misspelled memnonides as "mennonides".

The image was obtained from the source listed below.

Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes

Manuscript

Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 320 (Liber de natura rerum), folio 103r

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