The illustrated text reads "Est animal quod dicitur elephans in quo non est concupiscentia coitus. Elephantem greci a magnitudine corporis vocatum putant. Quod formam montis perferat. Grece enim mons elephio dicitur. Apud indos autem a voce barro uo catur. Unde est et vox eius barritus et dentes ebur. Rostrum autem promuscida dicitur quomodo illo pabula ori admovet et est angiu similis. Vallo munitur eburneo. Nullum"; there is illegible marginalia to the right of the text, and marginalia below reading "hic est elaphantus".

Scoring:

+ 2 😊 Best
+ 1 🙂 Good
+ 1 🙁 Unsure

Topics:
   + Bestiary (1230-1240) - BL Harley MS 4751
   + Miniatures of elephants
   + War elephants

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• Filename: Harley elephant detail.jpg
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Licensing:

• Artist: unknown, England, S. (Salisbury?)
• License: Public Domain

Media information:

• Original datetime: 1230s
  date QS:P,+1230-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
  , 1st half of the 13th century
• Upload datetime: 2015-11-19T13:28:31Z
• Uploader: User:McGeddon
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• Refreshed: 2018-09-03 17:40:35 UTC

Technical Topics:
   + CC-PD-Mark
   + Extracted images
   + PD-old-70-1923