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Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in a basket.
Drawing in a Bible from the Lower Rhine, 1457 - Niederrheinische Historienbibel - Berlin SBB-PK Ms. germ. fol. 516
Ox rider, book of hours, Tours 1500 (Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 124, fol. 61r)
Bird feeder, Speculum humanae salvationis, Alsace 14th century (BnF, Latin 511 fol. 26r)
Let's all take a minute to appreciate how cunning the #fox is for feigning his own death. Those birds are goners! From the Worksop Bestiary created in Lincoln or York (?), c.1185. New York, @MorganLibrary Ms. M. 81, fol. 11v. #medievaltwitter #fantasticanimals #bestiary
【宣伝】同人サークルTRI Fol:um様(https://t.co/bayzj0mzgx)製作中の、戦国乙女同人ゲームに使用されるイラストで、今川ヨシモトを描かせていただきました。 #戦国乙女
Multicolored cats, Worksop Bestiary, England c. 1185 (NY, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.81, fol. 46v)
🦔hedgehog, Worksop Bestiary, England c. 1185 (NY, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.81, fol. 10v)
Snail hunt, Livre des merveilles du monde, France c. 1460 (NY, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.461, fol. 78r)
The Sun and the Moon in their chariots, astronomical miscellany, Canterbury c. 1050 (BL, Cotton Tiberius B V/1, fol. 47r)
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Soul leaving the body, Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France c. 1450-1470 (Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 47v)
Next up: Lucifer, the prince of hell, surrounded by lesser devils. Are they breathing fire or spitting blood?
MS. Douce 134, fol. 98r: https://t.co/3FOESucGR5 #FolkloreThursday
A king languishes in a pool of fire and brimstone.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 87r: https://t.co/3WvraUDoiG #FolkloreThursday
The lecherous are punished with your standard pit of fire, courtesy of delicately shaded devils.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 86r: https://t.co/pkEGeZy7rt #FolkloreThursday
The wrathful are stabbed and stoned by devils who look rather like dragons and stone gargoyles respectively.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 84r: https://t.co/18Hxb7nhmb #FolkloreThursday
The envious, meanwhile, are punished by devils with pitchforks and alternating ice and fire baths.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 83v: https://t.co/e8F9U1qYDo #FolkloreThursday
Here, the souls of the proud and vainglorious are broken on a wheel by a devil straight out of Where the Wild Things Are.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 83r: https://t.co/Z7U3ds5HDS #FolkloreThursday
Next, the sinners and devils are accused, judged and, according to Christ's speech scroll on fol. 76r, sentenced to "depart cursed into the eternal fire".
MS. Douce 134, fols. 74r, 75r and 76r https://t.co/liJAi2SohT #FolkloreThursday
...but our favourite is this one, where Lucifer, flanked by devils, is judged by Christ, who sits on a rainbow. Count Lucifer's heads.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 67v https://t.co/3XvDh484yt #FolkloreThursday
After the Antichrist dies, the 15 signs of the Last Judgment follow (we covered these last week). Then, finally, it's time for the main event, featuring trumpets and a spectacular hellmouth.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 50v: https://t.co/rE7FjkMbqN #FolkloreThursday