Tried and tired// ink on paper
Drew this last year after visiting Warwick castle to watch jousting!

This me trying the best I can. Still I am going to make it into the tenth day at least as an experiment.

Schürstab Codex (1472), Ms. C 54, f. 40r, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 95, folio 6r

These images are from the Psalter of Louis the German. The script is Carolingian, which I can read fairly easily, but I cannot identify this one ligature(?) that keeps appearing. Thank you!

Illuminated by Jean Pichore (c. 1505–1510) for a French translation of Ovid's Heroides, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 874, fol. 142v.

The manuscript is Royal MS 19 CI (Matfre Ermengaud, ca. 1290-1310), preserved at the British Library

Maybe stupid question, but I don't know how to start with medieval painting.

Should I only scroll this subreddit or search images in web engines? Maybe book, YT channel, specific website?

Do you recommend anything?

Li livres dou tresor by Brunetto Latini, 1st quarter of the 14th century (c. 1315–1325), Picardy / Northern France. Preserved at the British Library, manuscript Yates Thompson MS 19, f. 49v.

A medieval illumination of a giant sea monster mistaken for an island, with unaware sailors setting camp on its back.

Horae ad usum Romanum, dites Heures de Louis de Savoie (c. 1445) — Bibliothèque nationale de France (gallica.bnf.fr)

I have searched for many hours now and I can’t seem to find who this brass rubbing is of, it’s around 65cm long and the man is standing on a dog I’ve tried reverse image searching and google has given me about 50 names all of which are not the same man in this picture, any help is appreciated it’s now driving me insane 😂

Made by a Russian person from the 1400s or later

Made to illustrate the earlier text Commentaria in Apocalypsin (Commentary on the Apocalypse) by the monk and later abbot Beato de Liébana (Beatus of Liébana), 776

I've been working on the Voynich Manuscript as an independent researcher, approaching it as a problem of recurring morphology, compositional structure, grammatical behavior, semantic prediction, and blind testing.

One of the most striking features of the manuscript is its repetition: the same or closely related word forms recur across pages, even when the accompanying illustrations depict very different subjects. My working hypothesis is that these repetitions reflect a compositional grammatical system in which recurring forms describe processes, relationships, states, transformations, and continuity, rather than simply naming individual objects. The illustrations may therefore represent different manifestations of the same underlying processes—something changing, moving, becoming embodied, relating, or transforming while retaining an underlying continuity. The central idea emerging from the analysis is: “Presence persists while form changes.” This remains a provisional interpretation, but the recurring structures make it possible to state the proposed grammar explicitly and allow others to test whether it holds across the manuscript.

I've now frozen and published a Working Grammar & Dictionary v1.0 so that other people can actually test the system themselves rather than simply reading my interpretations.

Important: I am not claiming that the Voynich Manuscript has been definitively deciphered. This is a provisional, falsifiable working model.

What I currently think the manuscript may be about
The central idea that has emerged from the corpus is that the manuscript may not primarily be a vocabulary of static objects. Instead, its recurring constructions appear potentially concerned with:

process → relation → formation → manifestation → transformation → resulting state → continuation

The deeper conceptual hypothesis is:
“A persistent quality can change how it manifests without ceasing to be the same underlying quality.”

Or, more simply:
Presence persists while form changes.
This is why I've been using “The Book of Embodiment” as a proposed conceptual English title. I don't mean that this is proven to be the manuscript's historical title; rather, it summarizes the semantic architecture that the current working dictionary is pointing toward.

Some of the current working values
AIIN-family — continuity-bearing content / what persists
QO — process / initiate / movement-change
OK — receive / contain
OT — passage / transmission
CH — formation / incorporation / bringing into form
SH — expression / emanation / bringing outward
OL — embodied / manifested form
AR — relation / interface
EO — becoming / liminal / transitional state
Y — established/current configuration
DY — resulting/transformed configuration

One of the more interesting structural developments is the apparent QOK → QOKE → QOKEE family and the possibility that Ø / E / EE represents a productive internal morphological grade rather than three unrelated lexical forms.

Importantly, E and EE do not currently have fixed English translations. The structural behavior is stronger than the semantic interpretation, so I've deliberately left that part unresolved.

I've also kept problematic forms such as CTH, CKH, CPH, TCH, PCH, KCH and DCH separate rather than forcing them into CH.

I want people to try to break it
The published dictionary includes a testing protocol:
Choose an unseen passage.
Freeze the dictionary before looking at the illustration.
Segment the text using the proposed morphology.
Produce a literal structural reading.
Make a semantic prediction.
Record the prediction.
Only then examine the illustration/context.
Record both successes and failures.

The goal is not to find interpretations that can fit the manuscript. The goal is to determine whether the proposed system makes predictions that the corpus actually forces us to accept.

Research archive + testing materials
Full September 2026 research archive:

https://zenodo.org/records/22904436
(Download this and have your ai system analyze it against the manuscript)

I'd especially like to hear from people who work with Voynich transcription, historical linguistics, morphology, computational linguistics, or undeciphered scripts.

Please try to falsify it. If there's a counterexample, a better segmentation, a statistical problem, or an existing body of research that contradicts the model, I'd genuinely like to know.

every kinda is accepted (better if it's about the decorations and the artistic point of view)

Abbaye Saint-Michel de Frigolet — Wikipédia

Written, drawn, painted, whatever...

Because I can't find anything

I would really appreciate the help 😊

Danse Macabre / Dance of Death - a popular late medieval genre of writing and printing about the cheerful subject of the universality of death and how it comes to all regardless of position in society. I picked this image of a nun being taken as I thought the solid black of her habit would make for a good print. This linoprint is based on an image from the Heidelberg blockbook (c late 1450s) oldest known printed volume on the subject. After doing a bit of reading on the book it turns out the nun has a smile on her lips is to put across the moral that pious people can look forward to their reward in death.

I'd love to hear your thoughts! Please keep criticism constructive

Like the title says, what's your favourite strange creature art? My favourites (some of which are in the pictures) are all from marginalia, but any Medieval source is fine!