Maria of Burgundy on an allegorical sea voyage to her wedding with Maximilian I, attacked en route by Louis XI of France, represented as a #whale.
#medievalsky #historicalwhale
📖Jean Molinet, Le Nauffraige de la Pucelle (15th c.); BnF, Français 14980, f. 16r; gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...