Matthew_Paris_1251_sketch_of_Crossbill_eating_fruit.jpg (426 × 259 pixels, file size: 23 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
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DescriptionMatthew Paris 1251 sketch of Crossbill eating fruit.jpg |
English: Mediaeval sketch by Matthew Paris in his Chronica Majora (1251) of a Crossbill, Loxia curvirostra, holding a fruit in its beak. He has extended a line of the text into the margin below the drawing, with the Latin words Alaudis parum majores ('a little bigger than Larks'). |
Date | |
Source | The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora |
Author | Suzanne Lewis (modern text); Matthew Paris (mediaeval author and artist) |
Matthew Paris recorded in the text that the birds were "a little bigger than Larks, and eat the pippins of the apples [pomorum grana] but no other part of them... They had the parts of the beak crossed [cancellatas] by which they divided the apples as with a forceps or knife." The birds had rarely been seen before, but irrupted into Britain in large numbers in that year, causing damage to orchards.
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