a bit blasphemous cuteness overload
Virgin Mary breastfeeding the baby Jesus - monkey giving a bowl of milk to a baby kitteh
see also: cuteness overload 1475-2011
and a baby kitteh feeding
‘Trivulzio Book of Hours’, Flanders ca. 1470.
Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, SMC 1, fol. 110v
lion playing the viella
Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305.
Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 107, fol. 26r
Nosferatu (or Yoda) and Gandalf the Gray smoking a pipe?
the text is Psalm 17:50 in Latin and Old Polish ‘Propterea confitebor tibi in nationibus, Domine, et nomini tuo psalmum dicam’; ‘Przeto spowiadać sie będę tobie w ludzioch, Gospodnie; i twemu imieniu psalm będę mołwić’ (‘Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, o Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name’)
trilingual Sankt Florian Psalter (Psałterz floriański), Kraków 14th/15th century.
Warszawa, Biblioteka Narodowa, Rps 8002 III, fol. 28v
dancing with devils
Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d’Amor, Toulouse 14th century.
British Library, Royal 19 C I, fol. 204v
monkey music
Alphonso Psalter, London ca. 1284, decorations added in the early 14th century.
British Library, Add. 24686, fol. 17v
keyboard cat
book of hours, France 15th century.
Bodleian, MS. Douce 80, fol. 106v
ass trumpet
Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, France 1297.
Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 131, fol. 202r
halloween music
Pierre Michault, La Dance aux aveigles, France 1466.
BNF, Français 1654, fol. 171r
breakdancing fox
Breviary, France 13th century (end).
Cambrai, Bibliothèque Municipale, ms. 102, fol. 324r
ED ELLI AVEA DEL CUL FATTO TROMBETTA
Rothschild Canticles. Flanders, 14th century.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 404, fol. 134r
CHRISTUS UND DIE MINNENDE SEELE
Gedicht von Christus und der minnenden Seele, Constance ca. 1490.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 710(322), fol. 6r-20r
HURDY-GURDY CAT
Book of hours, France, ca. 1485-1490.
NY, Morgan, MS M.26, fol. 88r
PIGS vs. ELEPHANTS
Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre, France 1420.
BL, Royal 20 B XX, fol. 57r
THE CAT & THE FIDDLE
Book of Hours, England, 1320-1330.
BL, Harley 6563, fol. 40r