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Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing (c. 1546) (publicdomainreview.org)
21 points by prismatic on June 3, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



> Images from an illustrated version of a 13th-century Arabic treatise by Zakariya al-Qazwini titled ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing).

The drawings resemble the fantastical creatures of the Voynich Manuscript e.g. woman with eight legs, turtle with a human head etc.


Images from an illustrated version of a 13th-century Arabic treatise by Zakariya al-Qazwini...

Posted on publicdomainreview.org. The question is, how did this get past the Disney Intellectual Propery lawyers?




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