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Feel that you're a very fierce but that a diminutive rodent has run rings around you? Your tale is told here.

Wood engraved plate by Agnes Miller-Parker from: The Fables of Esope, originally published by the Gregynog Press in 1931.

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2022-04-30

Settling down for Medieval Board Games Club, courtesy of .

Left, a regal affair - from Add MS 12228; "Meliadus or Guiron le Courtois".

Right, paws at the ready for & Mr Hare - from Add MS 36684; Book of Hours, use of St Omer.

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2022-02-20

of the Day.

It was all very well maintaining an intense saintly focus on Biblical translation, but the attendant Lion wished to emphasise that it was DINNER-TIME! 🦁 *ROAR*

Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
Saint Jerome Translating the Bible
Met Museum.

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2021-01-19

I'm equally smitten by Samson and the terrific manes.

I doubt the dental examination is all that well appreciated, though the lion's bid to star in the next is there for us all to see. Bible 1445.

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2021-01-07

I'll have another serving of haughty please. In fact, let "self-satisfied" be the order of the day!

Creation of the animals
Bible, Germany c. 1445
New York Public Library, MA 104.

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2021-01-05

Just to refresh your memory, Posy, the 1st Mr December (each month merits 2 rugby players) had a remarkably polished bottom.

No was shocked by the displaying of this image in my "office".

Though Arthur Bonneval from Toulouse may be feeling the cold just a bit.

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2020-12-11

Fabulous window indeed, and the aren’t bad either, thanks for reminding me 🦁
Top right looks like he’s got something in his eye😉

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2020-03-20

Speaking of shy items, , the lion does a sterling job shielding Adam from ridicule in this design for stained glass by Philip Webb

V & A: 1861 watercolour design for stained glass, showing Adam naming the lion & the roebuck. with a voluminous mane!

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2020-03-16

another excellent thanks to & 👏👏👏
To celebrate the 2nd anniversary have a with his St Jerome from Kingsland, you may have seen him before on a 😜🦁

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2020-02-19

*Swoon* Here's a darkly gorgeous What a mane, what a magnetic gaze!



Paris, Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 1029, f.127v.

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2019-12-18

Ladies Allura and Kima~ (Couldn't resist drawing Kima in her gold armour!)

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2015-06-28