full-service spa
Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470.
Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 87r
April Fools’ Day :P
Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century.
British Library, Additional 49622, fol. 123r
pack of devils
Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470.
Bodleian, MS. Douce 134, fol. 99r
breakdancing bear
Robert de Boron, L’Estoire de Merlin, Northern France ca. 1280-1290.
Paris, BNF, Fr. 95, fol. 152r
Buona pulcella fut Eulalia/Bel auret corps!
Breviary of Martin of Aragon, Catalonia ca. 1398-1430.
BNF, Rothschild 2529, fol. 317r
elephant vs. unicorn
Queen Mary Psalter. London 1310-1320.
British Library, Royal 2 B VII, fol. 100v
Burial of Mary of Egypt
the ‘Smithfield Decretals’ (Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria), Tolouse 13th/14th century.
BL, Royal 10 E IV, fol. 288r
INNOCENTS
‘The Cloisters Apocalypse’, Normandy ca. 1330.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters, MS 68.174, fol. 2v
How to scare a wyvern
Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d’Amour, Lorraine 14th century.
Bodleian, MS. Douce 308, fol. 89v
Μήδεια
Histoire ancienne jusq’à César, Naples 14th century.
BL, Royal 20 D I, fol. 37v
Eve emerging from Adam’s rib
Saint Ambrose, Hexaemeron, Germany 12th century.
Amiens, BM, ms. Lescalopier 30, fol. 10v
“where’s my fuckin’ carrot, doc?”
Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305.
Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 107, fol. 96v
1man1pole
Bible, France 1200-1210
Avranches, BM, ms. 2, fol.127v
rabbits jousting
The Breviary of Renaud de Bar, Metz 1302-1303.
BL, Yates Thompson 8, fol. 294r
sacra conversazione
Biblia porta, France 13th century.
Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 187v