The Book of Marvels: Traponee (Sri Lanka) Magnet
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Complex and remarkable, the Book of the Marvels of the World, a manuscript in the Morgan's collections, depicts many parts of the world known to the people of Medieval Europe, even if many of their depictions are fantastical.
This magnet is a detail of the image of Traponee (Sri Lanka) from the J. Paul Getty Museum's sister manuscript to the Morgan's copy. The translated text describing this image sites Solinus stating that Traponee grows the biggest snails that exist in the world and move so quickly that it is a marvel and the men of the country hunt and chase them as wild animals and that their shells are so large that men and women of the country live inside them as they have no other dwellings.
This product was created to complement an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World, on view January 25, 2025 through May 25, 2025.