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#WorldOtterDay musical entertainment:
Bagpiping #otter in the margin of the Book of Hours, Lyon, c.1505-10; Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 6881, fol. 63v.
https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md32d791w48g
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in case anybody was wondering where these weird little guys came from:
LeafPup Creature: The Northern French Hebrew Miscellany, BL Add 11639, f68v
UniCreature: The Maastricht Hours, BL Stowe MS 17, f219r
Flower Creature: The Hours of Saint-Omer (first half), BL Add 36684
MerBunny: The Book of Hours, use of Metz, Metz. BM, MS 1588, f148r
#medieval #marginalia #medievalManuscripts #medievalMarginalia
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A belated #cat for #Caturday and an early #snail for a #SlowSunday : Cat in a snail shell from the Book of Hours, Use of Maastricht (‘The Maastricht Hours’), Stowe MS 17 f.185 Netherlands, S. (Liège), 1st quarter 14th c. British Library collection #CatsInArt #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalMarginalia
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There's usually only two stooges in the scene with the eye poke gag.
Didactic miscellany. Kk.4.25, f. 48r
#drollery #drolleries #manuscripts #MedievalDrollery #IlluminatedManuscript #grotesques #grylli #gryllus #hybrid #marginalia #medievalart #MedievalBook #MedievalHybrids #illumination #MedievalIllumination #MedievalLife #MedievalMarginalia #MiddleAges #MedievalManuscript #MedievalMonsters
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Some marginalia do not need a caption save it's "A chicken riding a goat and jousting with a flower."
LIke many of the marginalia I find, the poster did not cite the manuscript.
#drollery #drolleries #manuscripts #MedievalDrollery #IlluminatedManuscript #grotesques #grylli #gryllus #hybrid #marginalia #medievalart #MedievalBook #MedievalHybrids #illumination #MedievalIllumination #MedievalLife #MedievalMarginalia #MiddleAges #MedievalManuscript #MedievalMonsters
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A BIRD-woman feeding a BIRD leg to a BIRD.
Cannibalism to the nth degree.
Cloisters Apocalypse, f. 22v
#drollery #drolleries #manuscripts #MedievalDrollery #IlluminatedManuscript #grotesques #grylli #gryllus #hybrid #marginalia #medievalart #MedievalBook #MedievalHybrids #illumination #MedievalIllumination #MedievalLife #MedievalMarginalia #MiddleAges #MedievalManuscript #MedievalMonsters
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Sure, sex is great, but have you ever zoomed in so close on an illuminated manuscript that you could see the hairs in the vellum next to the strangely rendered giraffes? #Medievodons #medievalart #MedievalMarginalia
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Some things that I love to talk about that aren't in my profile.
- #ADHD
- #Gardening
- #worldbuilding
- #DungeonsAndDragons
- #MedievalMarginalia
- #RocksAndMinerals
- #DragonAge
- #Romanticism
- #Orchids
