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Sponge

Sponges grow rooted to rocks. The artist did not know what they looked like, so drew two sea-shells.

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Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes

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Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 320 (Liber de natura rerum), folio 130v

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