medieval. drollery

Medieval Drollery by modern artist.

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Godzilla as one of the many witnesses to Halley's Comet in 1222.

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St. Margaret and the Dragon Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne Illuminated by Jean Poyer France, Tours, ca. 1492–95 The Pierpont Morgan Library, Purchased in 1905 MS M.50 (fol. 20v)

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Sancte Michael Memento Mei Ante Deum

Horae ad usum Trecensem dites Heures de Michel Berthier, 1415-1420

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birds from Friedrich II's De arte venandi cum avibus!!!

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Sketch of the day: Sword.

Ace of Swords Arcana. Lady of the Lake.

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Sketch of the day: Media. Drollery. Decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript. The word comes from the French drôlerie, meaning a joke.

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Второй большой пост со средневековыми скетчами мифологических созданий и их описания у меня на Бусти.

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Hey tumblr we need to have a talk about something I noticed.

Specifically going by tags attached to images I’ve blogged or reblogged, there seems to be a misconception that marginalia means “any quirky medieval art”.

It’s not.

Marginalia is anything in the margins of a text.

The ones that will get posted on tumblr will more often than not be quirky drawings, but they also include notes, annotations, scribbles, and whatever else. The quirky drawings just happen to get a lot of press on here because, well. They’re quirky drawings.

For instance, see this image here of a platanista (river dolphin) chomping down on an elephant’s trunk?

This is not marginalia! This is a full-fledged illustration. It’s within the text (Liber natura rerum, Thomas de Cantimpré, Librairie de Valenciennes Ms 0320). It illustrates the entry on Platanista.

This is what it looks like in context.

But you know what are marginalia? Let me circle them for convenience.

Know the difference. It won’t save your life but it will make you more popular at a medievalist conference.

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Daily sketch: First.

First Arcana, The Magician.

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Большой пост со средневековыми скетчами мифологических созданий и их описания у меня на Бусти.

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Sketch of the day: Voyage.

In this case - voyage to the unknown. The Fool Arcana.

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Sketch of the day: Blanket.

Titania wakes up and sees Nick Bottom.

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Our larp games have a good tradition of bringing and exchanging sex cards a la Witcher 2. Here are some of them that I drew for the "Dance of Dragons" (plus the map).

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Commission for one davi.

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Daily sketch: Goat.

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Daily sketch: Slime.