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Romance of Alexander, f. 81v: the hare's revenge

Romance of Alexander, f. 81v: the hare's revenge
Romance of Alexander, Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Bodl. 264, folio 81v. The killer rabbit, in full. Read the bottom margin left to right: a giant hare spans a crossbow using a hook on its belt, a boy hides up a tree above a sitting rabbit, and then the hare strides off with a trussed-up young hunter dangling upside down from a pole over its shoulder. It is the world turned upside down, the hunted becoming the hunter, and nobody did it with more relish than the margins of this book.

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