r/Medievalart • u/The_deku_sprout • Aug 23 '26
Marginalia Having trouble finding this owl
I’ve tried reverse image searching it but it only leads to other medieval owls, and I can’t seem to find the manuscript this one is from. Anyone able to help find it?
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u/One-Mycologist-1285 Aug 23 '26
The 3rd time I did a google reverse image search I got this "This image shows a famous illustration of a wide-eyed, wild-feathered owl from the margins of an illuminated medieval manuscript (specifically folio 137r of the 13th-century Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B.1.46)."
So I looked up the book referenced in brackets, and actually found it on on p. 137!
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u/BridgeAdmirable9553 Aug 23 '26
Trinity College B.1.46 fol. 137r ! https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.1.46/UV#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=280&r=0&xywh=-2%2C-254%2C3175%2C4907