snailfight
‘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. 107r
#bear threesome
Gaston Phoebus, Le Livre de la chasse, Paris ca. 1407.
NY, Morgan, MS M. 1044, fol. 18v
onocentaurus (ass-centaur)
Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, France ca. 1290.
Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 320, fol. 73v
Ladyhawke or rat falconer
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390.
Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 76v
another funeral procession…
Macclesfield Psalter, England ca. 1330.
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, fol. 11r
‘une recitation de alcuns monstres’
description of a Dalmatian sea monster by Poggio Bracciolini added to a copy of ‘Le Miroir du Monde’, France before 1463.
Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 337, fol. 85r
Bunny the Monster Slayer
Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305.
Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 107, fol. 108r
hell’s kitchen
Cité de Dieu (French translation of St Augustine’s De Civitate Dei), Paris ca. 1475.
Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 246, fol. 389r
seduction of Lancelot
‘Le livre de Lancelot du Lac’, France ca. 1401-1425.
Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal 3480, p. 33
anabula - an ethiopian beast
(most certainly a giraffe…)
Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, France ca. 1290.
Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 320, fol. 51v
DI Friday party
Speculum humanae salvationis, France 1470-1480.
Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 89, fol. 41v
marginal doodles
(around an earlier gloss ‘ad[!]que et supra’)
Codex Justinianus, France 13th/14th century.
Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 333, fol. 275v
better than Ouroboros
Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305.
Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 107, fol. 106r
cat rider
Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, France ca. 1294-1297.
Boulogne-sur-Mer, BM, ms. 130I, fol. 233r
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Decretum Gratiani with the commentary of Bartolomeo da Brescia, Toulouse ca. 1340-1350.
Avignon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 659, fol. 306r