Fighting a butterfly
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 50). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Insufficient evidence
Date or witness: c.1320–1330
Region: Southern England, possibly London
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1320 CE to 1330 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
A figure wages battle against a butterfly across BL Harley MS 6563 ff.8v–9r.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
The butterfly-combat image is documented in one manuscript.
What remains uncertain
Analogy with snail combat is not evidence that this particular image circulated independently.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria