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Everyone loves a picture of an arrow being shot at a butt!

(Burney 323 f. 234v)

@micah_goodrich HOW COULD I FORGET MADAM MIM???

Another similar backside/erect penis situation, with another woman looking on, while holding a very phallic scroll. (f. 296r)

There's....whatever this is. The official description says there's an erect penis here, but I don't see it.

(f. 119v)

@MxComan Yeah, agreed. It's interesting that other versions of this scene seem to strip the damned of a lot of secondary characteristics, at least in terms of beards?

The most identifiable animal from medieval bestiaries is the asp, which supposedly would block out snake charmers' magic by putting one ear against the ground & sticking its tail in the other ear.

Big antisocial mood.

(BL, MS Harley 3244, f. 61v) #MedievalTwitter

1 And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

2 And she said "Is he....you know....?"

(BL, MS Royal 19 B XV, f. 20v) #MedievalTwitter

@IMdFS @MedievalPhDemon How dare you, Shyama! I read this for the articles!

Just a few more images from other Ethiopian manuscripts of the story (thank you for the links, Wendy Laura Belcher!).

Here's a terrifying rendering from British Library, MS Oriental 645, f. 119r. #MedievalTwitter

For our last week, my Global Medieval Lit class is reading the 15th-century Ethiopian story of the Virgin Mary, The Cannibal of Qəmər, in which a rich cannibal eats 78 people but does one (1) good deed, so the Virgin Mary persuades Jesus to let him into heaven. #MedievalTwitter