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Monkey riding a goat with a hunting owl. Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. British Library, Add 42130, fol. 38r. #medieval #MedievalArt

The Three Dead. ‘De Lisle Psalter’, England ca. 1310. BL, Arundel 83, fol. 127r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Bear rider. Les Grandes Heures du duc de Berry, Paris 1409. BnF, Latin 919, fol. 75r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Goat-headed rooster. 'Hours of Joanna the Mad', Bruges 1486-1506. BL, Add 18852, fol. 94v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Owl. Breviary of Mary of Savoy, Lombardy ca. 1430. Chambéry, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 4, fol. 447r. #medieval #MedievalArt

#Medieval censorship. ‘Mettener Regel’, Germany 1414. München, BSB Clm 8201d, fol. 24r. #medieval #MedievalArt

bBadgers, badgers, badgers. Gaston Phoebus, Livre de la chasse, Avignon ca. 1375-1400. BnF, Français 619, fol. 23v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Rabbits with cell phones? Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century. British Library, Add 49622, fol. 107v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Little Bear. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī, Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita, Samarkand ca. 1430-1440. BnF, Arabe 5036, fol. 23r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Love wins. Christine de Pisan, ‘L'Epistre Othea la deesse…’, Paris ca. 1406. BnF, Français 606, fol. 6r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Hedgehogs in the vineyard. bestiary, England ca. 1226-1250. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 764, fol. 52v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Hedgehog. Le Bestiaire divin, England 13th century. BL, Egerton 613, fol. 38v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Heraldic bat. Jean Mansel, La Fleur des histoires, France 1454. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 5087 réserve, fol. 96v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Hey #cat. stop licking your butt on the Book of Maccabees or you’ll get an arrow! Biblia Porta, France 13th century. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 376r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Black mouse. ‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century, BL, Stowe 17, fol. 129v. #medieval #MedievalArt

#Christ on Majesty flanked by two angels blowing trumpets of the Last Judgement and... a little grey guy licking its butt. Missal, Bavaria ca. 1440-1460. New York Public Library, MA 112, fol. 7r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Sign of Pisces. Matfre Ermengau, Breviari d'amor, Occitania ca. 1300-1350. BL, Harley 4940, fol. 30v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Crowned cat. Scheibler Armorial, Germany ca. 1450-1480. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.icon. 312 c, p. 258. #medieval #MedievalArt

Catwalk. Miracle XXXI: 'How Saint Jerome and his companion beheld a little devil on the train of the dress of a woman of Bethlehem'. Jean Miélot, Jean Le Tavernier (illuminator), La Vie et Miracles de Nostre Dame, Audenarde 1456. BnF, Français 9198, fol. 91r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Hot bath. Cité de Dieu (French translation of St Augustine’s De Civitate Dei), Paris ca. 1475. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 246, fol. 389r. #medieval #MedievalArt