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What do you find here?

• articles and pictures about cultural-historical aspects of snakes and snake pictures
• some remarks about my thesis, dealing with the bestiary the Flemish author Jacob van Maerlant wrote in 1270
• translitterations of Jacob van Maerlant's books about snakes and metals, taken from Der naturen bloeme.
• Latin text and Dutch translation of the book of herbs taken from De natura rerum by Thomas of Cantimpré
• translitteration of the snake book in De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomaeus Anglicus
• an offer of books, dealing with Dutch language and art (painting)
  

Brabantine hospitality in Northern France.
Click here for French impressionistic paintings by Sjef van der Voort