Scorpion and snake fighting, Anglo-Saxon. circa 1050

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Scorpion and snake fighting, Anglo-Saxon. circa 1050. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Cotton Vitellius C. III, folio 40. Anglo-Saxon work. Scorpion and snake fighting. The drawing of the scorpion is good, showing that the artist of the original, from which this was copied, worked in the Mediterranean region. The plant is 'Solago Minor' which, it is thought, corresponds to th Heliotropium Europaeum of botanists

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