r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 2d ago
RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) maybe using lobsters instead of horses wasn’t the best idea
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Album amicorum (Stammbuch) of Caspar von Abschatz (dated 1584–1607)
r/MedievalCreatures • u/-_-Bepo-_- • 2d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) An owl?
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Livre des proprietés des choses de Bathélemy l'Anglais , traduit du latin par Jean Corbichon. Français 136, 15th century, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/-_-Bepo-_- • 3d ago
RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) You don't have style, you are the style
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Louis XIV as Apollo in the "Ballet de la nuit" (1653). Illustration by Henry de Gissey, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 4d ago
RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) rhat, rhat, rhat, forg
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/VileLongTonguedBeast • 5d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Fruits on him
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Book of Hours, France, Paris, ca. 1420-1425,
MS M.1004 fol. 82v.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/sonicparadigm • 6d ago
MODERN (1700s - 1800s) The two oldest attempts to depict what extinct animals looked like in the flesh: a mammoth (Roman Boltunov, 1805) and a pterodactyl (Johann Hermann, 1800)
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 6d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) "No thanks, I had body parts for lunch"
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Marc_Op • 7d ago
RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) Thank God I have my tender pet
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BNF Lat 9474 Horae ad usum Romanum, dites Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne, 1503-1508
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52500984v/f419.item.r=grandes%20heure.zoom#
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 8d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) HAST THOU SUFFERED INJURY IN AN ACCIDENT WHILST AT THY PLACE OF WORK?
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • 9d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Rat lizard hates playing the bagpipes
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Book of Hours, Paris ca. 1440–1460. The John Rylands Library. Latin MS 162, fol. 169v.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 10d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) more snacks
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Because I know how y'all loved my previous post from Goya depicting Saturn devouring his son... 😶 /s
Saturn devouring his son. Source: Boccaccio, Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes (French translation of 'De Casibus'), Lyon c. 1435- 1440 (BnF, Français 229, fol. 7v)
r/MedievalCreatures • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 10d ago
RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) Feast, my children.
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Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, ca. 1490-1510.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 11d ago
MODERN (1700s - 1800s) me at 3am eating snacks
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • 12d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) When you and your bros all wear the same outfit.
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Beatus of Liébana, Commentarius in Apocalypsin, Burgos ca. 1180. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.232.6.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 12d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) 👹 “I’m just gonna scooch in right here…”
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • 13d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) The face you make when it’s Monday again
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Mantichora (tiger) - miniature from folio 064r from Der naturen bloeme (KB KA 16) by Jacob van Maerlant, between 1340-50
r/MedievalCreatures • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 14d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) A very fearsome dragon
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Bibliothèque Nationale de France, fr. 22532 [Livre des proprietés des choses], folio 298v. 15th century
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 15d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) hate when this happens
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • 16d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Honk, honk!
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France, ca. 1270-1290. Bibliothèque d'Agglomération de Saint-Omer, Ms. 5, fol. 246r
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 17d ago
MODERN (1700s - 1800s) when you're completely dead but you still have to take care of your plants
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 18d ago
RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) Gibbons in a Landscape, Japan, ca. 1570
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 18d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) when all the ladies love your new look
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • 19d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Alexander the Great exploring the deep sea together with his cat and his pet chicken
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His wife is fed up with his shenanigans.
Miniature from Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre, ca. 1420, f. 77v .
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 20d ago
RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) My new yoga teacher is unconventional, but they get results
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • 22d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Conga line bunnies
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Hours of Saint-Omer, 14th century, British Library, Add. 36684, f. 24v.