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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Initial ‘P’. Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, Cîteaux 12th century. Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 173, fol. 7r.
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Standing fox. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 14r.
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