Kathleen Walker-Meikle 🎗️さんのイラストまとめ

#NationalPetMonth The poet Lord Byron got around Trinity Cambridge's no dog rules by getting a pet bear instead. He couldn't have pulled that stunt at King's as their 15th c. statutes banned pet bears, badgers, foxes, wolves, deer, and 'all wild animals' (image: Quentin Blake)

This looks like a very bad idea....Engraved by Louis Marin Bonnet (Louvre 6421 LR/ Recto)

#InternationalGoatDay thread. Starting with this caprine stead with monkey falconer with owl (British Library Add 42130 f. 38r)

If your favourite feline or their minions want their own book, there's "Cats in Medieval Manuscripts" (British Library Publications, 2019) packed with illuminations and medieval feline facts #CatsOfTwitter

A delightful 17th c. Italian watercolour of a ring-necked parakeet (Psittacula krameri), THE popinjay/parrot of the late medieval/early modern period, a very popular pet @V_and_A [E.2776-1962] #HistoricalPetParrots

@lauraandandi @V_and_A @RCT And am so fond of this one (also at @V_and_A) featuring a genet cat skin (NOT a civet cat) that I even wrote a blog post about it https://t.co/cFXS6BTALB

Pregnant pets are rare in art, here's two of my favourites. Pregnant cat rather pointedly looking at the bowl of broth meant for the mother of St John the Baptist, who has just given birth. Grimani Breviary (Biblioteca nazionale marciana ms. Lat. I 99 f. 593v) #Caturday

Dogs of shepherds hear meowing cat and bark. Justice ordered area dug up, find cat & chest. Justice (#MedievalSherlock) called all local carpenters to ask who made the chest. Jean Prévost arrested & accused the magician, some canons & abbot as co-conspirators!!![CONT.] [6/7]

For #WorldSnakeDay, this cheerful adder doesn't look too alarmed by that spear. He appears under the entry for parsley which you'll be happy to learn is helpful against snake bites in this 12th century English herbal (British Library Harley 5294 f. 42)

@_drsang @dr_jrbrown We do! It's such a small thing to ask for...