original legend : Elephant, from Drawing by Matthew Paris Identifier: devoncornwallnot112amer_0 (find matches)Title: Devon & Cornwall notes & queriesYear: 1920 (1920s)Authors: Amery, John SSubjects: Publisher: Exeter, England : J.G. ComminContributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy CenterDigitizing Sponsor: Internet ArchiveView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:he hunting of lions and antelopes; the Crusaderskilled rabbits on the island of Lampedosa. And let itbe noted that except the lion, not one of these animals,is found on the misericords. But there is no mentionof elephants, and there are none in the north of Africa,,nor in the varous countries where the Crusaders touchedon their way. It is true that Tasso in his Jerusalem Delivered speaksof elephants in the same line as camels; perhaps byassociation of ideas, perhaps the statement is due tohis poetic imagination. Anyhow, he wrote two hundredyears later. But even if Tasso were correct, and the Egyptianarmy possessed elephants, as he states, they would bewar-elephants, and if our misericord had been copied fromthem it would have borne a howdah, and have been fullycaparisoned, as elephants appear in the cathedrals ofRipon and Gloucester, Beverley Minster, Beverley St.Mary and elsewhere. Ours is simply an elephant, withno trappings of any kind. Cheap fun has been poked 12 Elephant. No. 27.Text Appearing After Image:Elephant, from Drawing by Matthew Paris. Plate III. THE MISERICORDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. at it on account of alleged inaccuracies in representation;after reading certain printed descriptions one would expectto see a grotesque beast indeed. On this point also a protestmust be entered against the journalistic touch. True,the elephant is not perfect, but if the artist had not givenit the hind legs of an horse, and if the tusks did notstick upwards quite so much, there would not be muchfault to find. Mediaeval workmen often copied the subjects of theircarvings from the bestiaries, and several of the Exetermisericords were derived from the illustrations in thesebooks, as will be shewn presently, but the elephant wasnot one of them. I have examined several bestiaries,and not in a single one is there an elephant thatin point of accuracy approaches the Exeter carving,but it is noticeable that the thirteenth century drawingsare more nearly correct than those of the fourteenthcentury. The probaNote About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

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