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Description: 
Pelican on the nest feeding its young with its blood by picking itself in the chest
Object number: 
00079
Part: 
Misericord
Nature: 
Religious
Artist: 
onbekend
Position: 
Misericorde VI aan de zuidzijde
Date: 
1491-1493
Location: 
Belgiƫ, Diest: Sint-Sulpitiuskerk
Photographer: 
Verspaandonk, J.A.J.M.
Interpretation: 
Randall verwijst in haar boek 'Images in the margins of gothic manuscripts' naar andere voorstellingen met dit onderwerp in manuscripten.
Categories: 
AnimalReligiousSymbol
 
object 00079: 00079
Author(s):  Randall, Lilian M.C.
Title:  Images in the margins of gothic manuscripts
City:  Berkeley
Year:  1966
Page details:  p. 197
 
Author(s):  Smith, J.C.D.
Title:  Church woodcarvings: a west country study
City:  Newton Abbot
Year:  1969
Page details:  p. 67
 
Author(s):  Steppe, J.K.
Title:  Wereld van vroomheid en satire: laat-gotische koorbanken in Vlaanderen
City:  Kasterlee
Year:  1973
Page details:  p. 131
 

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