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@resismedievalmenagerie
hi sorry s'cuse me but were NONE OF YOU GOING TO TELL ME ABOUT BLACK BOOKS OF HOURS???
LOOK AT THIS MAGNIFICENT GOTH-ASS SHIT
EGADDDDDDD
THE IRON-COPPER SOLUTION USED TO DYE THE PAGES WAS SO CORROSIVE THAT THERE ARE VERY FEW SURVIVING EXAMPLES
THESE BOOKS WERE LITERALLY TOO METAL TO LIVE
i can't
Come on in, the Hell is fine. This comes from a Medieval Bestiary written around 1175.
MEDIEVAL CAT SPOTTED. I'm a big fan of his gnarly little toes. This comes from a Bestiary written somewhere around 1175.
Medieval bird violence. This comes from a Bestiary written around 1175.
Would you believe this is a Medieval illustration of a crocodile eating a hydra? Because I swear to god that's what the translation of the Latin says best as I can tell. This comes from a Bestiary written somewhere around 1175. I'm using the translation of this text done by Willene B Clark, so feel free to fact check me on this.
An Amphisbaena, which was a sort of mythological two headed ant-eating serpent. I think these guys are pretty adorable and deserve a comeback arc.
This comes from a Bestiary written somewhere around 1175.
Man getting into a boxing match with a dragon in the 1175 Bestiary. I wish I had a better explanation for what's going on in this illustration but I truly do not. A proper medievalist might, but as far as I can tell from the Willene B Clark translation this section is about poisonous snakes.
Just a really cute basilisk from the 1175 Bestiary.
Medieval serpents from the 1175 Bestiary along with some of the text about them, which is pretty hilarious as usual. Here we have, amongst others- The Regulus, who kills with a whistle instead of a bite. The Viper and Morray Eel, who are two kinds of the same animal, or at least reproduce with each other? I don't know, honestly this part was kind of hard to parse and was mostly about how evil and adulterous women are. The Lizard. Who is a kind of reptile. That's pretty much all it says. The Salamander, who turns fruit poisonous if he crawls into a fruit bearing tree.
A dragon from the 1175 Bestiary. I like his little beard.
The Peridexion tree, which the 1175 Bestiary says confidently comes from India. It's best known for scaring dragons, they can't come near it. I suppose that means dragons weren't much of a problem in Medieval India, or at least the Europeans thought so.
Medieval bees from the 1175 Bestiary!
Just like ants, these medieval monks absolutely go off about bees for like 3 pages, but the line that stuck out to me the most is that they have unsullied virginity.
Here we have, in order- The quail, who likes to eat poisonous seeds because they were forbidden to him in ancient times and he does what he wants. The peacock, who famously does not decay when he dies. The hoopoe, whose blood creates sleep paralysis demons. And the rooster, who I guess is called a cock because of all birds he's the only eunuch. Idk, medieval monks are weird as hell. Anyway, this all comes from this 1175 Bestiary.
Medieval bats! I love these guys. They're in the bird section, but clearly even the medieval monks are a little confused about this, writing the bat "uses its teeth, which you may not be accustomed to finding in other birds." Translation comes from Willene B Clark, and you can find the bestiary these are featured in here.
A page on birds out of the 1175 Bestiary.
Tucked between owls and partridges in the birds section of this Bestiary from ~1175 are sirens. From the Willene B Clark translation: "The sirens are deadly creatures that look like humans from the head to the waist, but have the lower bodies of a bird down to the feet; and in musical form they give forth a kind of very sweet melodic song, so that with their sweet voices, beguile the ears of sailors from afar and attract them. And with this intense melodic sweetness they send a message through ears and senses and put them to sleep. Then finally, when they see that the sailors are in a deep sleep, they suddenly attack them and tear their flesh, and thus by the seductiveness of their voices the sirens deceive and kill unmindful and careless men."
Additional birds! These come from a Bestiary written somewhere around 1175.
