#drollery

[upennmanuscripts]

A bird. Rabbit? Bird. Pretty sure it's a bird (or a rabbit). Whatever it is, it confounds us in the bottom margin of Ms. Codex 724 f. 326r, a 13th century illuminated Bible.

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With more than 900 illuminated manuscripts, 1,250 of the first printed books (ca. 1455 - 1500), and an important collection of post-1500 del

[voxbelicosa]

weird little guys

[medievaldrollery]

For Warhammer LARP game.

Do not steal the jugs!

[sibyllemathilde]

Haley Wood

[greencheekconure27primary]

I've posted these before on my other blog but while that's gone I'll repost them here as well.Make of them what you will.

Chimaera

Running

Sun & Shade

Flower

[greencheekconure27]

Anyway, some more margin doodles from my old college notes:

[doubtspirit]

Marginal drollery, about 1260–1270, via the J. Paul Getty Museum

[weirdbookthings]

Detailed drolleries from a 1920s childrens book series.

I mean these aren't even the actual illustrations, they're just decorative margins. Pictured here in mostly blue because it shows the details the best. This book series actually alternate print colors in blue, red, green and brown. And theres different ones in all the different books, these are just some I liked.

"The Children's Hour" story collection, by the Houghton Mifflin publishing company, 1928