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