Rowing Rats Association 

Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390.

Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 77v

the cat’s tower besieged by the mice

book of hours, London ca. 1320-1330.

British Library, Harley 6563, fol. 72r

how to make a mule 

St. Albert the Great, De animalibus, Paris 14th century.

BnF, Latin 16169, fol. 84v

monkey baseball 

Psalter, Flanders ca. 1320-1330.

Bodleian Library, Douce 6, fol. 114r

hey bear! stop eating that! 

‘The Rutland Psalter’, England ca. 1260.

British Library, Add 62925, fol. 51r

bowl of milk! 

‘Trivulzio Book of Hours’, Flanders ca. 1470.

Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, SMC 1, fol. 110v

rabbits with cell phones? 

Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century.

British Library, Add 49622, fol. 107v

Monday. back to work. 

Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century.

British Library, Add 49622, fol. 209r

archery training 

above: Psalm 85:14 ‘Deus, iniqui insurrexerunt super me, et synagoga potentium quesierunt animam meam: et non proposuerunt te in conspectu suo’ (‘O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them’)

‘The Rutland Psalter’, England ca. 1260.

British Library, Add 62925, fol. 87v

waldensian sabbath 

Jean Tinctor, Traittié du crisme de vauderie (Sermo contra sectam vaudensium), Bruges ca. 1470-1480.

Paris, BnF, Français 961, fol. 1r

healing of the demoniac 

missal and book of hours, Lombardy ca. 1385-1390.

Paris, BnF, Latin 757, fol. 312r

omnomnom 

(‘stercora’ or dung in medical practice) 

Historia Plantarum, Lombardy ca. 1395-1400.

Roma, Biblioteca Casanatense, Ms. 459, fol. 250r

monkeys nursing a kitteh 

see also the eternal love of the primates

‘Trivulzio Book of Hours’, Flanders ca. 1470.

Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, SMC 1, fol. 110v