#yeah it's from ethiopia you've probably never heard of it...
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diogenesprintco · 3 months ago
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"Pegaſe eſt une grāt beſte terrible et eſpouentable Et naiſt en Ethiopie et a la forme dung cheval et les aiſles cōme une aigle : mais elles ſont moult plus grandes / et ſi a la teſte armee et garnie de cornes."
I was reading an Internet Archive scan of Le Jardin de santé (a 15th century herbal and bestiary originally published in German) for inspiration as I wanted to make a couple woodblock-style floral prints for t-shirts/patches, but kept getting distracted by made-up creatures and antiquated French spelling.
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