Whimsical wonders of medieval art

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Le livre de Lancelot du Lac & other Arthurian Romances, Northern France ca. 1275-1300

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS 229, fol. 31r

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13th century Belgian Manuscript | More here!

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+ The Birthday of Saint John the Baptist, Year B, June 24, 2015 + 

Confitébor tibi, quia mirabíliter plasmátus sum. 

image: John Baptist Beheading, Book of Hours, France, Paris, ca. 1485-1490, MS M.231 fol. 201v, The Morgan Library & Museum

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http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/14th-century-illuminations-for-dantes-divine-comedy/

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(Mercury with dragon kebab) Evrart de Conty, Le livre des échecs amoureux. Flanders, 15th century. Artist: Maître d’Antoine Rolin, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 9197, detail of f. 136v

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Line up that shot, centaur! Line it up juuust right… Oh. Oh my.

Just a few amusing figures in the border of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Lewis E M 9:8C, a folio that was cut from a 15th century Book of Hours from Northern France.

I mostly post about manuscripts from our collection, which only makes sense, but the Free Library has an amazing collection so I should give them some love. There are actually wonderful medieval manuscripts all around the Philadelphia area!

Three cheers and kudos to freawaru for bringing this to my attention (I was looking for crossbows, and look what I got!)

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Miniatura tratta dal codice ‘Pèlerinage de vie humaine’ (1400 circa), Bodleian Library, Oxford. 

trovato su http://www.foliamagazine.it/

(Malaspina mica per niente!)

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SCREAM AT OWN ASS

(From a 15th century French book of hours in the University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections)

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Jacob Wrestling the Angel, Michiel van der Borch, 1332 

More like, Jacob awkwardly slow-dancing the Angel? (or is it just a staring contest)?

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“Malnato! Rendimi la mia cervice!”

source

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Hieronymus Bosch's Butt Song From Hell Comes Alive

Booty jams sounded a little different in the 1500s.

Damn girl, lets get our pray on.

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Unknown Artist, from Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros, perhaps from 1775

Source.

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The Romance of Alexander. MS. Bodl. 264 fol. 3r  1338-1344                             

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Sorry for the radio silence lately, I’ve been busy writing papers! To make up for it, here are some grotesques from the margins of MS 304 at the University of Edinburgh Library, a late 15th century book of hours from France. I like the dragon cat mohawk guy at the bottom the best!

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monkey chef

Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre, Bruges 1471-1483

BL, Royal 15 E IV, fol. 192r

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it’s raining demons!

Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, Paris 1333-1334

BnF, Français 316, fol. 23v

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A c1300 illustration showing those two famous lovers Lancelot and Guinevere in bed