Chinese Whispers.
Many fabulous creatures inhabit the pages of Mediaeval manuscripts some of which, the Bear, the Gryphon and the Siren, are very familiar to the viewer and have their origins in nature or Greek and Roman mythology. However, there are other more monstrous types of creatures, lurking in the margins and between the scrollwork of the foliate borders: the Sciopod, the Blemmyae, the Donestre, Panotii (fan-eared, sausage-eared.), Cynocephali, cyclopes, Dragons, the Sphinx and the Gryllus.
These creatures could only have sprung from the imaginations of the monks who painstakingly illuminated the pages on which they appear. Perhaps, they were real animals once which have been transformed into the fantastical through the telling and retelling of tales, related by world-weary travellers.
John C.M. Wood.
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