#this is how the text (mandeville) labels them
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"women with beards"
in a german translation of "mandeville's travels", ca. 1471-1474
source: Stuttgart, Landesbibl., Cod. poet. et phil. 2º 4, fol. 40r
#this is how the text (mandeville) labels them#as women with several typically “male” characteristics#idk i always struggle with how to describe such images bc i don't want to use transphobic or intersexist language/assumptions#mandeville's travels#15th century#gender#queer#illuminated manuscript
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