In this 1485 manuscript, people live inside giant snail shells
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A French manuscript from about 1485 shows a woman spinning wool in her doorway while her child plays beside her. The doorway is the mouth of a giant snail shell. She lives there.
Robert Testard painted it for Charles d'Angouleme, a count in southwestern France, as one of 56 miniatures in Les secretz de l'histoire naturelle. - Read the rest
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