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