On a gilt background in a red frame, beneath an incredibly stylised blue true with red fruit, a line of tiny brown piglet-like hedgehogs is gathering red round fruit on their spines. The hedgehogs are unusually long-legged and their spikes are rather thin and sparse. Image from Aberdeen University Library, Univ. Lib. MS 24 (Aberdeen Bestiary), folio 24r.
Although often shown very realistically, the medieval hedgehog was also shown in a more imaginative light as this image of what looks like spiky piglets from the Aberdeen Bestiary (c1200). #medievalmanuscripts #medievalbeasts #hedgehog #hedgehogs #aberdeenbestiary
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