#junvenal

[medieval-unicorns]

In the round(el)

A unicorn peeps out from the border at the start of a copy of Juvenal’s Satires.

Origin: Florence Date: 1475-1500* British Library, Burney MS 190, f. 2

*Your regular reminder that the Renaissance overlapped with the Middle Ages.** **All these definitions are later constructions imposed on very long and diverse time periods.