bunny hunter 

Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390.

Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 165r

I can has a spindle? 

‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century.

British Library, Stowe 17, fol. 34r

holy hemorrhoid 

Roman d’Alexandre, Tournai 1338-1344.

Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 56r

flying penis monster 

Decretum Gratiani with the commentary of Bartolomeo da Brescia, Italy 1340-1345.

Lyon, BM, Ms 5128, fol. 100r

fishcat vs. spear rat 

Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390.

Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 161v

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

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

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

vomiting dog

‘li chiens qui est de teil nature que quant il a womit si repaire à son womitte et le remengue de rechief jou eusse volontiers ma proiere renglotie cent fois…’

Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d’Amour, Lorraine 14th century.

Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 308, fol. 89r