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| description = Matthew Paris's illustration "A Tartar Feast", for his Chronica Majora, now in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, MS 16, folio 167r.

{{citation |editor=Alfred J. Andrea |title=The Medieval Record: Sources of Medieval History |year=2020 |publisher=Hackett |edition=2nd revised |page=336}}, describes the illustration thus: {{gi|Accompanying the letter is an illustration that has become known as "The Tartar Feast." Matthew was a gifted illustrator as well as a prolific chronicler, and he illuminated his three manuscripts of the Chronica majora with many pen-and-ink line-drawings and maps as well as small colored paintings. The caption on the left within this illustration reads: "The heinous Tartars, or Tattars, feasting on human flesh." The caption on the right informs us: "When Tattar horses, which are most rapacious, lack better pasturage, they are content with the branches and leaves and even the bark of trees."}} See [https://apholt.com/2020/06/08/accounts-of-the-mongols-in-the-medieval-record/ Andrew Holt's blogpost].

| source = [https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/qt808nj0703 Matthaei Paris Chronica Maiora II]

| date = XIII c.

| author = Matthew Paris

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