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 Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

Pseudo-Aristotle, Physiognomia, Italy end of 13th century.

marginal gloss: mulier est hominis confusio, insatiabilis bestia, continua sollicitudo, indeficiens pugna, damnum cotidianum…

Schlatt, Eisenbibliothek, Mss 20, fol. 25r

initial T - crucified woman

(holding vessels or breast and vaginal symbols?)

Augustine, Tractatus in Evangelium Johannis, Tours 12th century.

Tours, BM, ms. 291, fol. 130v

happy unicorn

Rothschild Canticles. Flanders, 14th century.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 404, fol. 51r

ZEUXIS

Roman de la Rose, Netherlands ca. 1490-1500.

BL, Harley 4425, fol. 142r

SPECULUM VANITATIS

Book of Hours. Italy, ca. 1480.

British Library, Yates Thompson 7, fol. 174