Livre des merveilles du monde
ca. 1460
France, probably Angers
281 x 220 mm
MS M.461, fols. 50v–51r
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) in 1911
Iceland (left)
Iceland is shown as a frozen and forbidding land with great bears breaking through the ice for fish.
Italy (right)
For a European country, Italy is shown as quite full of strange wonders, including a pit full of demons being fed a human sacrifice and a merman-like beaver swimming ashore.