St. George and the Baby Dragon… Happy St George’s Day!
book of hours, France 15th century.
British Library, Harley 2952, fol. 21r
dragon dog
book of hours, Savoie 15th century.
Clermont-Ferrand, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 84, fol. 75v
dragon in the bedroom
(conception of Alexander the Great)
‘Talbot Shrewsbury book’, Rouen 1444-1445.
BL, Royal 15 E VI, fol. 6r
corinthi sunt achaici
Bible, France ca. 1170-1180.
Clermont-Ferrand, BM, ms. 1, p. 452
Perseus (not Bellerophon) and Andromeda
Christine de Pisan, L’Épître Othéa, Paris ca. 1410-1414.
BL, Harley 4431, fol. 98v
Perceval
Queste del Saint Graal, Italy ca. 1380-1385.
BNF, Français 343, fol. 27v
Whore of Babylon
Biblia Porta, France 13th century.
Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 482r
How to scare a wyvern
Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d’Amour, Lorraine 14th century.
Bodleian, MS. Douce 308, fol. 89v
NEWS FOR THE DELPHIC ORACLE
Jupiter castrating Saturn, Ops giving bread, Saturn devouring his offspring
ce chapitre est des ymages et des signes que les anciens assignoyent aux dieux et des deesses selon les aultres poetes
Évrart de Conty, Les Échecs amoureux, France 1496-1498.
BNF, Français 143, fol. 28
MEDIEVAL LOLCATS 2
Queen Mary Psalter. London 1310-1320.
British Library, Royal 2 B VII, fol. 188, 194