Owl. book of hours, Hainaut ca. 1450-60. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.267, fol. 179v.
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Superlion. Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480. BnF, Latin 920, fol. 29v.
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Baby #Jesus among the animals. Rudolf von Ems, Weltchronik, Regensburg ca. 1400-1410. LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 249r.
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Cardinals. John Mandeville, Voyage d'outre mer, Bohemia ca. 1410-1420. BL, Add 24189, fol. 7v.
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Listen up, piglets! Gaston Phoebus, Le Livre de la chasse, Paris ca. 1407. NY, Morgan, MS M. 1044, fol. 20v.
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Elephant rat. ‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’, Bruges 1486-1506. BL, Add 18852, fol. 203r.
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Master #Yoda? ‘The Smithfield Decretals’ (Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria), Toulouse ca. 1300, illuminations added in London ca. 1340. British Library, Royal 10 E IV, fol. 30v.
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#Venus. Broeder Gheraerts Naturkunde, Utrecht 15th century. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 18.2 Aug. 4°, fol. 124r.
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4/5 Norwich Cathedral SWIPE
The cloisters and vaulted ceiling (see 2 and 3 in this set) both have medieval carved bosses which largely escaped the iconoclastic destruction. Here are four from the cloisters.
Constellation #Aries. Cicero’s Aratea with Hyginus’s Astronomica, Reims(?) ca. 820-850. British Library, Harley 647, fol. 2v.
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Mandrake. herbal, England or France, ca. 1190. British Library, Sloane 1975, fol. 49r.
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Queck! Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century. British Library, Add 49622, fol. 190v.
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Fighting knights, fighting horses. ‘the Rochester Bestiary’, England 13th century. British Library, Royal 12 F XIII, fol. 42v.
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Useful creature. book of hours, Flanders c. 1300-1310. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.37, fol. 187v.
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Snail and strawberries. book of hours, Bruges ca. 1510-1525. Rouen, bibliothèque municipale, ms. 3028, fol. 58v.
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Boiled clergy. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470. Bodleian, MS. Douce 134, fol. 85r.
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Noah’s Ark unloaded. Egerton Genesis Picture Book, England 14th century. BL, Egerton 1894, fol. 4r.
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#Cat with eyebrows. Jean Mansel, ‘La Fleur des histoires ou les hystores rommaines abregies…’, France 1454. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 5088 réserve, fol. 257r.
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Eared owl. ‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century. BL, Stowe 17, fol. 24v.
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Low bite. Breviary of Martin of Aragon, Catalonia ca. 1400. BnF, Rothschild 2529, fol. 248v.
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Rabbit knight. Macclesfield Psalter, England ca. 1330-1340. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 1-2005, fol. 115v.
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Triangle face. Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. British Library, Add 42130, fol. 80r.
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Rabbit knight. Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, France ca. 1294-1297. Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 130II, fol. 87v.
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Stop that noise, #dragons. Grande Bible historiale complétée, Paris ca. 1395-1401. BnF, Français 159, fol. 256r.
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War #elephant. Naples ca. 1340. Universiteitsbibliotheek Leuven, Cod. 1, fol. 146r.
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