the Three Dead (with a peacock and a cat) 

Psalter and Hours of Bonne de Luxembourg, Jean Le Noir(?), Paris before 1349.

NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters 69.86, fol. 322r

Evil Dead/Army of Darkness 

‘London Rothschild Hours’ (‘Hours of Joanna I of Castile’), Ghent ca. 1500.

British Library, Add 35313, fol. 158v

gorgeous smile 

Ars bene moriendi, France 1470-1480.

Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 89, fol. 63r

skull initals

‘Macclesfield Alphabet Book’, England ca. 1475.

British Library, Add 88887, fol. 3v

placebo

book of hours, Savoy 1490.

Sarnen, Benediktinerkollegium, Cod. membr. 35, fol. 56r

dit des trois morts

‘The Smithfield Decretals’ (Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria), Tolouse ca. 1300, illuminations added in London ca. 1340.

British Library, Royal 10 E IV, fol. 259r

monkey picking strawberries

Book of Hours, Bayeux ca. 1450-1460.

Bodleian, MS. Douce 268, fol. 123r

dilexi, quoniam exaudiet Dominus vocem orationis mee

Hours, Provence ca. 1485-1490.

Moulins, BM, ms. 89, fol. 88r

halloween music

Pierre Michault, La Dance aux aveigles, France 1466.

BNF, Français 1654, fol. 171r

invincibili fato

Filippo Alberici, De mortis effectibus, Paris ca. 1507

BL, Arundel 317, fol. 25r

extinction of endangered species

Hours, France ca. 1475-1500.

BNF, Latin 1173, fol. 41v

RIDER ON A PALE HORSE

Apocalypse (The ‘Queen Mary Apocalypse’), England 14th century.

BL, Royal 19 B XV, fol. 10v

ΚΛΩΘΩ ΛΑΧΕΣΙΣ ΑΤΡΟΠΟΣ 

de troys deesses fees lesquelles scelon le poete ont a ordonner de la vie humaine

Évrart de Conty, Les Échecs amoureux, France 1496-1498.

BNF, Français 143, fol. 14v

SPECULUM VANITATIS

Book of Hours. Italy, ca. 1480.

British Library, Yates Thompson 7, fol. 174