Bestiary

Smeared with ointment original: "Lin[un]tur unguento", these men are extolled by the favors of this world. But when the strict Judge original: "iudex districtus" raises His hand to strike for their evil sins, then all that beauty of praise shall vanish like smoke original: "velut fumus evanescat".

A framed miniature painting of a manticore. The creature is depicted with the body of a red lion and a human head with a pale face, a red beard, and a pointed brown cap. The manticore is shown in profile, facing right, and is devouring a human leg. The background is a blue field decorated with white quatrefoil patterns. Two stylized trees with large blossoms flank the creature. The entire scene is enclosed in a border of gold, blue, and red.

In India, a beast is born which is called the manticore manticora; a legendary creature believed to have a human head and a lion's body. It has a triple row of teeth original: "triplici dentium ordine" that meet together in alternating rows. It has the face of a man with gleaming blue-gray eyes original: "glaucis oculis" and is of a blood-red color. It possesses the body of a lion and a tail tipped with a sting like that of a scorpion. Its voice is like a hiss, so much so that it imitates the melodic notes of pipes fistularum; specifically panpipes or flutes. It hungers most greedily for human flesh. Its feet are like those of a stag original: "cers," likely an abbreviation of "cervi", and it is so powerful in leaping that nothing can delay it nor... The text breaks off mid-sentence.