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Histoires Prodigieuses: Effigie du faulx Imposteur...WMS 136
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Histoires Prodigieuses: Effigie du faulx Imposteur...WMS 136
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Effigie du faulx Imposteur assise en une chaire de Leton portant sur sa teste une couronne faicte comme le tyare du Pope. Effigy of the false Imposter (Satan) sitting on a brass throne wearing on his head a crown like the tiara of the Pope. Histoires Prodigieuses, by Pierre Boaistuau, a sixteenth-century French writer presented to Queen Elizabeth I in 1560.

The Wellcome Library holds this original copy of the beautifully illustrated manuscript that deals with all kinds of freakish happenings, including Siamese twins and other birth deformities, unexplainable diseases, extreme obesity and natural disasters.

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