Staring into #hell. Anglo-Saxon miscellany (legend of Mambres and Jannes), Canterbury ca. 1050. BL, Cotton Tiberius B V/1, fol. 87v.
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St. George and the Baby #Dragon. book of hours, France 15th century. British Library, Harley 2952, fol. 21r.
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Depressed snail, sad frog. Institutes of Justinian, France 15th century. Montpellier, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire. Section Médecine, H 418, fol. 23v.
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Haggadah deer and Haggadah dog. carmen figuratum, Haggadah for Passover (the ‘Ashkenazi Haggadah’), Germany ca. 1460. BL, Additional 14762, fol. 14r.
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Arched back. ‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’, Bruges 1486-1506. BL, Add 18852, fol. 62v.
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#Devil #cat. Book of hours, France 15th century. BnF, Latin 1178, fol. 40v.
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#Dragon vs. #lion. Hours of Jean de Montauban, Bretagne ca. 1450. Rennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1834, fol. 79r.
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Death and the infant. l'Empire de la Mort, Paris 1491-1492. BnF, RESERVE FOL-TE-8, p. 7.
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Demonic cats on the deathbed. Jean Miélot, La Vie et Miracles de Nostre Dame, Oudenaarde 1456. BnF, Français 9198, fol. 110v.
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Wild #cats. Gaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, Paris 15th century. BnF, Français 616, fol. 36r.
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Snowball fight. Tacuinum Sanitatis, Milan or Pavia ca. 1390-1400. BnF, Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673, fol. 96v.
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Medieval Cheshire #Cat. Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu, Savoy ca. 1475. BnF, Rothschild 2973, fol. 19v.
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‘K’ initial. Chansonnier of Zeghere van Male, Bruges 1542. Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, mss. 125, 126,127, 128.
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LSD saints. Beatus of Liébana, Commentarius in Apocalypsin, Burgos ca. 1180. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.232.6.
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Rabbits. Gaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, Paris 15th century. BnF, Français 616, fol. 26v.
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Royal threesome. ‘The Taymouth Hours’, England 14th century. British Library, Yates Thompson 13, fol. 94v.
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Initial ‘A’. Chansonnier of Zeghere van Male, Bruges 1542. Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 127B fol. 23r.
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Four elements. Ovide moralisé en prose, Bruges ca. 1470-1480. BnF, Français 137, fol. 1r.
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Owls. Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus (French version), Bruges ca. 1485-1490. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 170, fol. 106r.
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Depressed snail, sad frog. Institutes of Justinian, France 15th century. Montpellier, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire. Section Médecine, H 418, fol. 23v.
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Finger counting. computus compilation, Lorsch 9th century. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1449, fol. 118v.
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Souls leaving the bodies. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 47v.
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#Perseus (not Bellerophon) and #Andromeda. Christine de Pisan, L'Épître Othéa, Paris ca. 1410-1414. BL, Harley 4431, fol. 98v.
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One of my favorite MS images, from the Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century (British Library, Add 49622, fol. 190v).
Initial ‘P’. Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, Cîteaux 12th century. Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 173, fol. 7r.
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