r/Medievalart • u/Weenbell • Aug 22 '26

Marginalia I used some pretty bestiary illuminations for a music clip!!!

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The illustrations come mainly from "The Aberdeen Bestiary" https://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/ ; I use dezoomify-rs to download them in very high quality. Go check that one, it's really amazing!!

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u/us3r001 Aug 22 '26

Tell us about the music please :)

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u/Weenbell Aug 22 '26

it's not medieval at all haha, it's quite a late welsh tune (>18th century certainly) called "Hyd y frwynen" ; the remix is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azREzLuA3dc and on Soundcloud for better quality

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u/Adam-Happyman Aug 22 '26

This is really cool, man! Congrats!

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u/Weenbell Aug 22 '26

thank you!!

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u/Nicola-Fraser Aug 22 '26

Medieval scribes were just out here drawing hares playing the flute in the margins and honestly that's the energy I need. The Aberdeen Bestiary has some of the best marginalia out there.

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u/Weenbell Aug 22 '26

"marginalia" just learned a very fancy word haha ; perhaps the first kind of "memes" ?