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Scorpion and snake fighting, Anglo-Saxon Herbal. circa 1050
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Scorpion and snake fighting, Anglo-Saxon Herbal. circa 1050
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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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Keywords: 'solago minor'; 11th century; botany, 11th century; Materia Medica
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