ANIMAL RECORD / BOOK XII.3 · SMALL ANIMALS
PARTIAL RECORDMOLE
Talpa · aspalax
WITNESS PANEL · IMAGE AT SOURCE · NOT REPRODUCED HERE
f.24r
ABERDEEN BESTIARY · MS 24 · DE TALPA
The mole is drawn without eyes, on the same page as the hedgehog. Not reproduced here.
VIEW THE FOLIO · UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN ↗VERIFIED WITNESS · IMAGE AT SOURCE
Isidore’s mole is defined by what it lacks. This record is short because the evidence is short.
ABERDEEN BESTIARY · MS 24 · f.24r. Shares the folio with the hedgehog.
Condemned to perpetual blindness in darkness.
THE LAYERS · KEPT DISTINCT
ISIDOREETYMOLOGIAE XII.3.5
Its name, he says, comes from that blindness. It has no eyes, it is always digging and throwing up soil, and it eats the roots beneath the crops. He also gives the Greek name aspalax.
MANUSCRIPT WITNESSABERDEEN MS 24 · f.24r
The Aberdeen Bestiary keeps the account and draws the mole without eyes.
HOW WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW
TEXT
Isidore XII.3.5 checked in two editions.
MANUSCRIPT
Aberdeen f.24r text and miniature checked.
PROJECT INTERPRETATION
Record levels, status labels, the streams diagram and the interface framing are authored by Make It Believable. They are not historical testimony.
WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW YET
- A rights-cleared image.