Keywords: Romance alexander oxford 81v hares 1.jpg The hunter's doom or the world turned upside down a giant hare is stretching the crossbow from a hook attached to its belt a boy hides in a tree under which sits a rabbit; the hare walks off carrying a trussed-up youth hung upside down from a stick over his shoulder This section of the manuscript was written by the scribe in Picardian French the dialect of Flanders in 1338 and by the Tournai illuminator Jehan de Grise and his atelier in 1344 Bodleiana Ms 264 fol 81v http //image ox ac uk/show collection bodleian manuscript msbodl264 part 1344 Jean de Grise PD-old-100 Hares hunting the hunter Bodleian Library MS Bodley 264 81v Crossbows in art |