Lady Monkey spinning

‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century.

British Library, Stowe 17, fol. 114r

a bit blasphemous cuteness overload 
Virgin Mary breastfeeding the baby Jesus - monkey giving a bowl of milk to a baby kitteh

see also: cuteness overload 1475-2011

and a baby kitteh feeding

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

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

monkey prank

Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre, Bruges 1471-1483.

British Library, Royal 15 E IV, fol. 192r

butter-churning monkey and the butter-licking cat

book of hours, France ca. 1475-1499.

Paris, Bibliotheque Mazarine, ms. 502, fol. 39r

Rodinesque monkey on a pot

(above Saints Peter and Paul ‘Petrus apostolus et Paulus doctor gentium’)

book of hours, Paris ca. 1460.

Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.282, fol. 125v

voracious monkey puts a fish in the ass…

book of hours (‘The Maastricht Hours’), Liège 14th century.

British Library, Stowe 17, fol. 83v

warning: cuteness overload!

left: monkey hugs a kitten, book of hours, Brussels ca. 1475 (NY, Morgan, MS M.485, fol. 117v)

right: monkey hugs a kitten, Nagaon, India 2011 (telegraph.co.uk)

nun breastfeeding a monkey

Arthurian Romances, France ca. 1300.

Manchester, John Rylands University Library, French MS 1, fol. 212r

avarice
‘The Dunois Hours’, France ca. 1440-1450.
British Library, Yates Thompson 3, fol. 174r

How now, a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead!

Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390.

Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 145v

riding the stork

Psalter, England 13th century.

Bodleian, MS. Douce 5, fol. 211v

homage

Psalter, England 13th century.

Bodleian, MS. Douce 6, fol. 24v

spit-roasted duck

‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century.

BL, Stowe 17, fol. 176r 

asperges me

Le livre de Lancelot du Lac & other Arthurian Romances, Northern France 13th century.

Beinecke, MS 229, fol. 298v

breastfeeding mermaid & monkey

Alphonso Psalter, London, ca. 1284.

BL, Add 24686, fol. 13r