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Let's all take a minute to appreciate how cunning the is for feigning his own death. Those birds are goners! From the Worksop Bestiary created in Lincoln or York (?), c.1185. New York, Ms. M. 81, fol. 11v.

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2019-01-15

The Feast of the was a Christian feast observed on 14 Jan celebrating stories in the

from Schreber 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' https://t.co/9TjAPf3pQV

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2019-01-14

One of my favorite medieval bibles - so medieval and yet so modern!

Pamplona Bible, Navarre 1197

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2018-11-25

Medieval petting zoo


Lyon, BM, 5128
Gratian, Decretum
(1350-1360)

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2018-10-31

Possibly my new favourite manuscript! Add MS 24189 (c.1410, Bohemia), a text-free series of full-page miniatures depicting scenes from the Book of John Mandeville. The work is grisaille, with colour really effectively applied for dramatic effect.

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2018-10-16

Сотворение Евы из ребра.
Speculum humanae salvationis 1420
Так себе Евушка получилась, Адам уже горюет

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2018-08-01


Oh to be an astronomer in mid 13th-century Toledo!

(Libros del saber de astronomía, transl into Castilian from Aramaic and Arabic made by various scholars including Jews, Muslims, and Christians)

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2018-07-27

ATTENTION, AND LATE 14TH-CENTURY DPNS! The "knitting Madonna" of the Buxtehude Altar. Via .

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2018-07-19

Cometí un montón de errores xdddd
Pero igual ya voy entendiendo más, de como funcionan las luces y sombras en ambientes.

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2018-06-18

David VS Goliath: one of the most iconic & dramatic episodes in the Old Testament in the amazing vignettes decorating the glossed Psalter of Odbert abbot of Saint-Bertin (986 - c. 1007).
I don't think there are many early examples, what do you say

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2018-05-01