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

:p 

Decretum Gratiani with the commentary of Bartolomeo da Brescia, Toulouse ca. 1340-1350.

Avignon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 659, fol. 306r