good morning! #LockdownBestiary #NotALion
Good Friday’s #LockdownBestiary animal is the #NotALion

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009.276.107.b">https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009....
hope you enjoy! #LockdownBestiary #NotALion

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f34.item">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/1214...
oh this is going to be good.

https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3519436">https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Re... #LockdownBestiary #NotALion
the #NotALion was first identified in 2013, when this image of a specimen was shared by @bxknits. the first to realize the specimen was of a previously unidentified genus was @senseshaper, who gave it its name. #LockdownBestiary
since then, researchers have searched many ecosystems in all corners of digitized collections, and many species of #NotALion have been identified. I will be sharing some throughout the day for the #LockdownBestiary

https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=17479">https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/c...
first, there& #39;s the wild #NotALion. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PET!

#LockdownBestiary https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3123357">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/1214...
then, there& #39;s the domestic #NotALion. this one is for petting.

#LockdownBestiary #AcademicsWithCats https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8113&CollID=58&NStart=16">https://www.bl.uk/catalogue...
suitable for speed as well as distance, there& #39;s the riding #NotALion.

#LockdownBestiary https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=6400">https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/c...
it& #39;s a bit hard to spot in this image as the other details are somewhat distracting, but if you look well enough you can make out a span of #NotALion.s of burden.

#LockdownBestiary http://manuscripts.kb.nl/show/manuscript/10+A+11">https://manuscripts.kb.nl/show/manu...
#NotALion.s were held as livestock, too. In his unequaled wealth, King Solomon had twelve!

#LockdownBestiary https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=12237">https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/c...
the scavenger #NotALion looks ferocious but don& #39;t worry, it only eats already dismembered human.

#LockdownBestiary https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8539706t/">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/1214...
the hunter #NotALion, on the other hand, looks super cute but is as dangerous as the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

#LockdownBestiary https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/searchresult/list/one/bcul/U0964">https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/search...
the #NotASealion is a species of #NotALion which tells you #FishArentBoring.

#LockdownBestiary https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ATLAS-00002-00061-00001/1">https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-A...
Jean Lallemant le Jeune& #39;s species of #NotALion defies classification.

#LockdownBestiary http://manuscripts.kb.nl/show/manuscript/74+G+38">https://manuscripts.kb.nl/show/manu...
(see also the hashtag #JeanLallemantleJeuneLookingAtThings for this fabulous manuscript)
musician #NotALion

#LockdownBestiary https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7999&CollID=8&NStart=2433">https://www.bl.uk/catalogue...
undertaker #NotALion.s

#LockdownBestiary https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?REPRODUCTION_ID=3159">https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/c...
#MedievalDonut inspector #NotALion

#LockdownBestiary https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60000317/f192.item">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/1214...
with this rich diversity of species and skills, it is no wonder that some people became overly fond of #NotALion.s

#LockdownBestiary https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b520004510.image">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/1214...
and #NotALion-human relations blossomed

#LockdownBestiary http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_13_b_viii_f001r">https://www.bl.uk/manuscrip...
John Donne even started a #NotALion cult

#LockdownBestiary (from John Donne, Fifty Sermons)
but then The Swerve happened, and people were cured of such superstitions

#NotALion #LockdownBestiary
having discovered the #NotALion, researchers soon discovered other #NotAnAnimal.s, too! #LockdownBestiary https://twitter.com/JillWhitelock/status/1248600489811378177">https://twitter.com/JillWhite...
thus, in the same class as #NotALion, the class of #NotAnAnimal, we also find the #NotASheep

#LockdownBestiary http://manuscripts.kb.nl/show/manuscript/10+B+25/">https://manuscripts.kb.nl/show/manu...
and another distant relation of the #NotALion is the #NotAWolf (seen here at @LeedsCityMuseum)

#LockdownBestiary #NotALion
let& #39;s not forget the #NotAnElephant, the best documented genus of the class of #NotAnAnimal. you can find its taxonomy here: https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html

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since its identification in 2013, archaeologists have been digging to look for the oldest fossils of #NotALion, and one of the earliest is here, from c.625BC: https://twitter.com/Pythika/status/1160234117881049088

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(though this is very much a vibrant field of discovery, so please contribute your own examples!)
in the 1600s, western European artists started depicting another animal, similar to, but definitely not a #NotALion: the #NotANotALion (or "lion" for short. here by Rembrandt, c.1660) #LockdownBestiary
it was first thought this was the same animal, merely drawn better, but later discoveries (such as this from the Utrecht Psalter) show that the #NotANotALion had co-existed with the #NotALion for centuries. #LockdownBestiary
likewise, even when the #NotANotALion had become the preferred subject for depictions, the #NotALion did not completely disappear. #LockdownBestiary
“Thanks to the #LockdownBestiary I now know everything there is to know about the #NotALion!”

https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/MS-LATIN-00008/1">https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/MS-L...
"Meh, was that all?"

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