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Jean de Meun sat in his study, writing the opening words of his poem the Roman de la Rose (@BLMedieval Yates Thompson MS 21, f. 69v): https://t.co/K2C0vQJQTI
This 16th-century altar card was made for an Italian nunnery. It works as a memory aid for the prayers that need to be recited during the Mass. The miniature in the centre shows a bishop giving vestments to an abbess (@BLMedieval Add MS 41966, f. 128r): https://t.co/0IJNP3GRZs
Sea monsters and naval battles in the Queen Mary Atlas, drawn by the Portugeuse cartographer Diogo Homem, for Philip II of Spain (@BLMedieval Add M 5415 A)