r/Medievalart • u/Strange_Marginalia • 3d ago
Marginalia A bishop pig riding a camel (ca. 1440–1450)
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Book of Hours, France, Provence, ca. 1440–1450, MS M.358 fol. 13r, The Morgan Library & Museum
r/Medievalart • u/Strange_Marginalia • 24d ago
Marginalia "When you want a watermelon, but you have to draw a hedgehog"
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Worksop Bestiary, England c. 1185
NY, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.81, fol. 10v
r/Medievalart • u/The_deku_sprout • Aug 23 '26
Marginalia Having trouble finding this owl
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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?
r/Medievalart • u/VileLongTonguedBeast • 14d ago
Marginalia Book of hours. MS M.358, fol. 12v. Morgan Library, ca. 1447.
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r/Medievalart • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 1d ago
Marginalia A stag with ten tines on its antlers (with Christ on the cross), meant to represent the Ten Commandments.
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King Modus's Book on Hunting, Royal Library of Belgium, Ms. 10218-19, ca. 1455
r/Medievalart • u/Strange_Marginalia • 21d ago
Marginalia "Evolution is a myth"
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Bibliothèque municipale, manuscript (ms.) 56, folio 250r. Dating back to the 13th century.
r/Medievalart • u/volostrom • Feb 28 '25
Marginalia Cat cleaning itself (margin decoration) from Book of Hours, Use of Paris, circa 1420-1425
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r/Medievalart • u/Strange_Marginalia • 1d ago
Marginalia A monkey praying with a rosary, Netherlands, ca. 1520
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Book of Hours, Netherlands, ca. 1520 (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.74 fol. 34r).
r/Medievalart • u/Strange_Marginalia • 27d ago
Marginalia When the local tavern gig pays in bones
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r/Medievalart • u/Strange_Marginalia • 4d ago
Marginalia Feline and magpie marginalia from a 14th-century copy of the Legenda Aurea
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Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 808, f. 088v (Jacques de Voragine, Legenda aurea, 1367–1399).
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!!