MS M.461, fols. 31v–32r

Europe (left)

This explicitly comparative image sums up the ideological position of the manuscript, with European and African rulers meeting, their armies arrayed behind them; the text takes a strongly prejudiced position, claiming that the men of Europe are handsomer and stronger than those of Africa.



Frisia (right)

Litigants plead their cases before the purportedly incorruptible judges of Frisia.