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Rabbit in the shell. Guillaume de Machaut, Prise d'Alexandrie, Reims ca. 1372-1377. BNF, Français 1584, fol. 336v.
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Initial ‘F’. Chansonnier of Zeghere van Male, Bruges 1542. Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 125B fol. 25v.
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Medieval art puzzle of the day: Bolesław the Bold murdered St Stanislaus. So when a 15th-c. artist painted a cycle celebrating Stanislaus, surely Bolesław gets a suitably awful ending?

Nope.

A post on imagining Bolesław's deathbed in a 1490 panel

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

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Crowned by #devils. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Fall of Princes (John Lydgate’s version of De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium), England ca. 1450-1460. BL, Harley 1766, fol. 200r.
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Dragon 1 out of 2 finished! 🐉

If anyone needs #art like this let me know bc I haven't goy any #commission this month!!

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#Bat in the tower. bestiary, France c. 1340. Montpellier, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section Médecine, H 437, fol. 212r.
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Bishop boar on a camel. book of hours, Provence, ca. 1440-1450. NY, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.358, fol. 13r.
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#Whore of Babylon. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 52v.
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Bipedal donkey. Bohun Psalter, England ca. 1356-1373. British Library, Egerton 3277, fol. 36v.
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I thought I saw a pussy cat. Biblia porta, France 13th century. Lausanne, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 357v.
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Horse musician. book of hours, Flanders ca. 1300. Cambridge, Trinity College B.11.22, fol. 185v.
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Costume ideas. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France c. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 99r.
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Fat squirrel. Jean Mansel, ‘La Fleur des histoires ou les hystores rommaines abregies…’, France 1454. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 5088 réserve, fol. 175v.
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Love is stronger than hate. #LoveIsLove. Maqamat al-Hariri (Maqāma 32), Syria or Iraq ca. 1240. BnF, Arabe 3929, fol. 122r.
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#Pegasus and the head of #Phaethon. Fazio degli Uberti, II Dittamondo, Milan ca. 1447. BnF, Italien 81, fol. 175v.
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Siege of the Castle of Ladies. Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. British Library, Add 42130, fol. 75v.
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War #elephant. Naples ca. 1340. Universiteitsbibliotheek Leuven, Cod. 1, fol. 146r.
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Dolphin of Ganges and an #elephant. Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, France ca. 1290.. Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 320, fol. 118r.
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Smiling #unicorns. initial כה, Haftoroh from the ‘Duke of Sussex’s German Pentateuch’, Germany 14th century. British Library, Additional 15282, fol. 314r.
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#Lion of Saint Mark. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’) Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 108v.
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My bloody valentine. Aurora consurgens, St. Gallen 15th century. Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Ms. Rhenoviensis 172, fol. 19v.
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#Medieval butt competition? left: Jacques de Longuyon, ‘Les voeux du paon’, Tournai (?), ca. 1350. NY, Morgan, MS G.24, fol. 25v. right: ‘The Rutland Psalter’, England ca. 1260. British Library, Add 62925, fol. 67r.
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Man holding a banderole inscribed ‘non est deus’ ('there is no god’) and whispering #devils. initial of Psalm 52 'Dixit insipiens in corde suo: non est Deus’ ('The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God’). Psalter, France after 1205. LA, Getty, Ms. 66, fol. 56r.
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Initial ‘R’. Hours of Charles of Angoulême, France ca. 1475-1500. BnF, Latin 1173, fol. 5r.
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Paschal lamb. Speculum humanae salvationis, Germany ca. 1360. Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, Hs 2505, fol. 28v.
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Gilded tendrils coil around the unicorn’s horn, its body pinned beneath the Virgin’s outstretched hand. Red glass, flashed over clear, casts the hunt in a luminous crimson glow—suggesting divine light as both veil and revelation.

How does the layered glass alter the way the figures seem to move within the scene?
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https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.149

Water stag. ‘Fieschi Psalter’, Cambrai ca. 1290-1295. Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, Walters Manuscript W.45, fol. 227v.
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Come for the birding; stay for the resurrection...

We took a trip to St George’s, Reichenau, where Ottonian frescoes show demons fleeing, storms falling silent, the sick restored—and Lazarus emerging from his grave.

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

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Castor dicitur a castrando (the beaver’s self-castration). Bestiary, Salisbury 13th century. British Library, Harley 4751, fol. 9v.
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Last Judgment. ‘Spinola Hours’, Bruges and Ghent, ca. 1510-1520. LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig IX 18, fol. 16.5v
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