waldensian sabbath 

Jean Tinctor, Traittié du crisme de vauderie (Sermo contra sectam vaudensium), Bruges ca. 1470-1480.

Paris, BnF, Français 961, fol. 1r

healing of the demoniac 

missal and book of hours, Lombardy ca. 1385-1390.

Paris, BnF, Latin 757, fol. 312r

full-service spa 

Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470.

Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 87r

don’t mess with female saints 

St. Juliana of Nicomedia and the devil (‘Hic bellum sathane superat virtus Iuliane’)

Picture Bible, Abbey of Saint Bertin, Saint-Omer (?), ca. 1190-1200.

Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76F5, fol. 32r

devil setting fire to Job’s household

Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César, Flanders ca. 1470-1480.

Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1139, fol. 134r

devil on the dress

Miracle XXXI: Comment saint Jherome et son conpaignon veirent ung dyablot dessus la queue de la robe d’une bourgoise de Bethleem (‘How Saint Jerome and his companion beheld a devil under the train of the dress of a woman of Bethlehem’)

Jean Miélot, Jean Le Tavernier (illuminator), La Vie et Miracles de Nostre Dame, Audenarde 1456.

BnF, Français 9198, fol. 91r

the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse

‘Et ecce equus pallidus: et qui sedebat super eum, nomen illi Mors, et infernus sequebatur eum’ (Revelation 6:8 ‘And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him’ - I know the horse isn’t pale enough…)

Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Silos Apocalypse’), Santo Domingo de Silos 1091-1109.

British Library, Add. 11695, fol. 102v

the pope and the Church hierarchy embraced by the seven-headed Beast of the Apocalypse (Hussite satire)

Antithesis Christi et Antichristi (Jenský kodex/Jena Codex), Bohemia ca. 1490-1510.

Praha, Knihovna Národního muzea, IV.B.24, fol. 69r

leprous Job and the fire farting devil

Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, Affligem 12th century.

BnF, Latin 15675, fol. 5v

dancing with devils

Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d’Amor, Toulouse 14th century.

British Library, Royal 19 C I, fol. 204v

kissing the cat’s butt

Jean Tinctor, Traittié du crisme de vauderie (Sermo contra sectam vaudensium), Bruges ca. 1470-1480.

BnF, Français 961, fol. 1r

fallen angels

Georges Chastellain, Miroir de Mort, France 1470.

Carpentras, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 410, fol. 9bis

Saint Anthony and the lobster devil

Jacobus de Voragine, La Légende Dorée (Legenda aurea), France 1470.

British Library, Yates Thompson 49 vol. 1, fol. 34v

finger guns

James le Palmer, Omne Bonum, London ca. 1360-1375.

BL, Royal 6 E VII, fol. 142r

devil’s wheel 2

Apocalypse, France 1220-1270.

Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, Ms 815, fol. 59v