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angel, catfight, snail  book of hours, Picardy 15th century.

Abbeville, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 16, fol. 29v

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“Self-aware” by Sergio Vallés on INPRNT

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Horatio Henry Couldery, The Unwelcome Visitor

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white cat

Bible, France 13th century

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Ms. Codex 724, fol. 272v

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spindle fun

Les Grandes Heures du duc de Berry, Paris 1409

BnF, Latin 919, fol. 10r

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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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drummer cat

book of hours, England ca. 1300

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.102, fol. 78v

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mousehunt

Biblia porta, France 13th century

Lausanne, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 354r

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white cat

book of hours, France after 1500

Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 654, fol. 5r

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menagerie

Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Liber de proprietatibus rerum (Livre des propriétés des choses – French translation of Jean Corbechon), Paris before 1416.

Reims, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 993, fol. 254v

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Saint Dominic expelling a demonic cat  Vincent of Beauvais, Le Miroir Historial (French translation of Jean de Vignay), Paris 1400-1410.

Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 72 A 24, fol. 313v

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hey cat. stop licking your butt on the Book of Maccabees or you’ll get an arrow!

see also: Gospel Cat and Apocalyptic Cat

below the cat: 1Maccabees 16:18-20 ‘Et scripsit hæc Ptolemæus, et misit regi ut mitteret ei exercitum in auxilium, et traderet ei regionem, et civitates eorum, et tributa. Et misit alios in Gazaram tollere Joannem: et tribunis misit epistolas, ut venirent ad se, et daret eis argentum, et aurum, et dona. Et alios misit occupare Jerusalem et montem templi’ ('And Ptolemee wrote these things and sent to the king that he should send him an army to aid him, and he would deliver him the country, and their cities, and tributes. And he sent others to Gazara to kill John: and to the tribunes he sent letters to come to him, and that he would give them silver, and gold, and gifts. And he sent others to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of the temple’)

Biblia Porta, France 13th century.

Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 376r

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marginal kitteh

above Acts 10:38-39 ’[et sanando omnes] oppressos a dyabolo, [quoniam Deus erat] cum illo. Et nos testes [sumus omnium quae fecit]’ (‘and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all things which he did’)

lectionary, Cambrai ca. 1266.

Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 190, fol. 72r

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rodent’s revenge Bestiary, England 13th century.

British Library, Royal 12 F XIII, fol. 43r&43v

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snailcat 2

Bible, Paris 15th century.

Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, ms. 62, fol. 70v

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cat’s in the well

aussi aise que ung chat qui reculle en ung puis

Hours, Rouen 15th century.

BNF, Nouvelle acquisition latine 3134, fol. 80r

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catfight

Augustine, Tractatus in Evangelium Johannis, Tours 12th century.

Tours, BM, ms. 291, fol. 125r