The bird Calandre brought into the bedroom of a sick man: it refuses to face him, signifying that the man will die soon. La Calandre, France, XIIIe siecle. From a manuscript Bestiary by Richard de Fournival, Lan. MS 7019, Bibliotheque Imperiale. Chromolithograph by F. Krause after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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