The Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University

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Bestiary, Harley 4751, fol. 26v, 1230-1240.
British Library, London, England, United Kingdom

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Book of Hours, M.1175, fol. 33v, detail, 1525-1530.
Morgan Library and Museum, New York, United States.

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The Sufi, the enslaved man, and the last camel, from Rosary of the Pious (Subhat al-abrār), 1560-1570.
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

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Winged camel ewer, silver with gilding, Sogdian, late 7th-beginning of 8th century CE.
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Camel from San Baudelio de Berlanga, first half of twelfth century (Met Cloisters, 61.219).

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Cubiculum, back wall, arcosolium, ca. 350-399.
Catacombs of Domitilla, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

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(Personifications of Philosophy, Physics, Logic, and Ethics. Bible of Saint-Thierry (Reims, Bib. Carnegie, MS 22–23), II, fol. 25r, detail.)