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Here, a member of the tribe fights a winged grotesque in the margins of a manuscript in the British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5347b8e45a7c0deb54418f/1515410390480-JC7UAREU3MPIGA5KPTEK/Seljuk+bowl+Bowl+with+Prince+on+Horseback%2C+12th%E2%80%9313th+century%2C+Iran.jpg Objects - A Seljuk Bowl This bowl shows a Prince on horseback hunting with a falcon, and was probably made in thirteenth-century Iran. Care for the bodies of these delicate hunting birds was a real art in the Middle Ages, for which fashionable rulers would pay significant sums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5347b8e45a7c0deb54418f/1515410542490-TR1FCMS8YKUPX4BVUZSN/2+-+Hebrew+Zodiac+Man%2C+BnF%2C+Ms+Heb+1181%2C+fol+266r+copy.jpg Objects - A Hebrew Bloodletting Figure This diagram is from a Hebrew manuscript and offers a guide to phlebotomy, a careful process of letting blood used by medieval healers to balance the humours of the body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5347b8e45a7c0deb54418f/1515410234954-XOUVNJR9PYDHN955CZU7/HEAD+-+Brain+Map%2C+Trilingual+compendium+of+texts+%28MS+Gg.1.1%29+copy.jpg Objects - The Medieval Brain In the Middle Ages, the brain was thought to consist of a series of interrelated cells responsible for sensory data, judgement and memory. 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