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Ah, yes, the Bayeux Tapestry: that ancient scroll of doodles that apparently requires more brain power than solving a Rubik's cube while blindfolded. Who knew contemplating medieval embroidery was a secret test of your browser settings? 🧵🤦‍♂️ #JustEnableJavaScriptAlready
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Medieval hippo (‘ipostamus’). Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 106v.
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Medieval hippo (‘ipostamus’). Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 106v.
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Medieval hippo (‘ipostamus’). Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 106v.
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Medieval hippo (‘ipostamus’). Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 106v.
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Medieval hippo (‘ipostamus’). Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 106v.
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#Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
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#Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
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#Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
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#Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
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#Lions. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v.
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Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r.
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Melusine making music. book of hours, France 15th century. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 662, fol. 21r.
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#Hell. Speculum humanae salvationis (‘Krumlovský sborník’), Bohemia ca. 1420. Praha, Knihovna Národního muzea, III B 10, fol. 47r.
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#Cat with eyebrows. Jean Mansel, ‘La Fleur des histoires ou les hystores rommaines abregies…’, France 1454. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 5088 réserve, fol. 257r.
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#Earthquake. #Apocalypse, Normandy ca. 1320-1330 BL, Add 17333, fol. 8r.
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Christus und die minnende Seele. Gedicht von Christus und der minnenden Seele, Constance ca. 1490. Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 710(322), fol. 6r-20r.
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Origen emasculating himself. Roman de la Rose, France 15th century. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195, fol. 122v.
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Mandrake. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber, England 12th century. British Library, Harley 5294, fol. 43r.
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Rabbit and #Goliath. Pontifical of Renaud de Bar, France ca. 1303-1316. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 298, fol. 7r.
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#AllSaints. Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480. BnF, Latin 920, fols. 180r, 181r, 182r.
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Sea turtle. Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Utrecht, ca. 1340-1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 110v.
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Nine circles of #Hell. #Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Italy c. 1420-1430. BnF, Italien 74, fol. 1v.
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Winged musician riding a leopard. Anjou Bible, Naples ca. 1340. Universiteitsbibliotheek Leuven, Cod. 1, fol. 307v.
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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

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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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