#medieval snails

[marginaliadesign]

Them: I've heard you're an artist and an entrepreneur? What exactly is it that you do for a living?

Me: *playing with screaming unisnail stickers*

[artsy-kitten]

For my second attempt (as an adult) at carving a stamp, I think it went pretty good. I’m about to make so many patches lmao

[gentlyepigrams]

When the squirrel met face to face with the the snail. The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 6; The Rylands Sephardi Haggadah; 1335 CE-1340 CE; Catalonia, Spain f.33a

[davidgahan]

Giant Snails/Caracoles Gigantes: No one really knows (theres not a settled theory) about what all the snails (theres a lot) were doing or meant in medieval manuscripts, so its as valid as something else to say sometimes they had beef with humans, hung out with them, or did comedic bugs bunny shit like the drawn rabbits did!

[bone-free-as-the-wind]

I’d say 9ish.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #ManuscriptMonday:

Gallican Psalter with Canticles, Augsburg, Germany, c.1520, f.115v, border decoration: medallion w/ King David brought before Saul; panel w/ donkey, stag, lion, bear, ram, rodents, lizard (or salamander?)...and a BIG snail:

look at its face 😂

More info on the manuscript:

"This luxury Psalter appears to have been created for Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria (1493-1550), as suggested by the depiction of the arms of Bavaria on folio 32r. It contains the major Psalm groupings at Psalms 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 97, and 109, but also contains additional subdivisions for Sunday Vespers, and for Ferial Vespers. The Psalter is accompanied by the Canticles, Litany, and Collect (fols. 130r-146r). Appended in a slightly later hand are Musical notation for the Kyrie and other prayers, dated 1540 (fols. 146v-152v). Illuminated roundels depicting episodes from the life of King David mark the beginning of each Psalm division. These scenes and the associated illuminated borders, which contain numerous depictions of animals, have been attributed to the Swiss illuminator Nikolaus Bertschi."

Library Company of Philadelphia MS 4.

[atlxolotl]

I know you’re all wondering why

[davidgahan]

Medieval people and their beef with Gigantic Snails. No one really knows (theres not a settled theory) about what all the snails (theres a lot) were doing or meant in medieval manuscripts, so its as valid as something else to say sometimes they had beef with humans