Description

'Nautilus melo var

The lower photograph shows lengths of gut being prepared

Two great Scottish writers

Ajunta (sic)'

Diaper ornament manatee 'Nautilus melo varDiaper ornament, 14th century, (1843). Copy of a woodcut showing the pattern of the mantle on the effigy of Lady Elizabeth de Montacute (died 1354), in the cathedral of Christ Church, Oxford. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).

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