don’t mess with female saints 

St. Juliana of Nicomedia and the devil (‘Hic bellum sathane superat virtus Iuliane’)

Picture Bible, Abbey of Saint Bertin, Saint-Omer (?), ca. 1190-1200.

Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76F5, fol. 32r

medieval OMG cat

Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, Affligem 12th century.

BnF, Latin 15675, fol. 8v

false prophet

Revelation 16:13 ‘And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet’ (‘Et vidi de ore draconis, et de ore bestiæ, et de ore pseudoprophetæ spiritus tres immundos in modum ranarum’)

Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Silos Apocalypse’), Santo Domingo de Silos 1091-1109.

British Library, Additional 11695, fol. 178v

de puero et virgine

Liber medicinae ex animalibus, Netherlands or England 12th century.

British Library, Harley 1585, fol. 72v

bistort

(Polygonum bistorta, also called adderwort, dragonwort or snakeweed with roots in the form of dragon heads and a bear’s paw)

medical and herbal writings, England or France 12th century.

British Library, Sloane 1975, fol. 48r

leprous Job and the fire farting devil

Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, Affligem 12th century.

BnF, Latin 15675, fol. 5v

Nativity

Martianus Capella, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Normandy 12th century. 

Alençon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 635, fol. 103v

corinthi sunt achaici

Bible, France ca. 1170-1180.

Clermont-Ferrand, BM, ms. 1, p. 452

initial T - crucified woman

(holding vessels or breast and vaginal symbols?)

Augustine, Tractatus in Evangelium Johannis, Tours 12th century.

Tours, BM, ms. 291, fol. 130v

angry Christ

Augustine, Tractatus in Evangelium Johannis, Tours 12th century.

Tours, BM, ms. 291, fol. 135r

catfight

Augustine, Tractatus in Evangelium Johannis, Tours 12th century.

Tours, BM, ms. 291, fol. 125r

Eve emerging from Adam’s rib

Saint Ambrose, Hexaemeron, Germany 12th century.

Amiens, BM, ms. Lescalopier 30, fol. 10v

καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ὁ διάβολος παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου

Job 1,12: And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.

Job with the catena of Olympiodorus, Byzantium 12th-13th century.

Bodleian, MS Barocci 201, fol. 15v

DIABOLUS SEDENS SUPER BEEMOTH

Lambert of Saint-Omer, Liber Floridus. Marchiennes (?), ca. 1150-1170.

Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 1 Gud. lat., fol. 41v