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    Sign of Pisces. Matfre Ermengau, Breviari d&#39;amor, Occitania ca. 1300-1350. BL, Harley 4940, fol. 30v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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

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    Catwalk. Miracle XXXI: &#39;How Saint Jerome and his companion beheld a little devil on the train of the dress of a woman of Bethlehem&#39;. Jean Miélot, Jean Le Tavernier (illuminator), La Vie et Miracles de Nostre Dame, Audenarde 1456. BnF, Français 9198, fol. 91r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    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

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    Ants. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Fat squirrel. Jean Mansel, ‘La Fleur des histoires ou les hystores rommaines abregies…’, France 1454. Paris, Bibliothèque de l&amp;#39;Arsenal, Ms 5088 réserve, fol. 175v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Costume ideas. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France c. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 99r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Horse musician. book of hours, Flanders ca. 1300. Cambridge, Trinity College B.11.22, fol. 185v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    I thought I saw a pussy cat. Biblia porta, France 13th century. Lausanne, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 357v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Bipedal donkey. Bohun Psalter, England ca. 1356-1373. British Library, Egerton 3277, fol. 36v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Bishop boar on a camel. book of hours, Provence, ca. 1440-1450. NY, Morgan Library &amp;amp; Museum, MS M.358, fol. 13r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    #Bat in the tower. bestiary, France c. 1340. Montpellier, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section Médecine, H 437, fol. 212r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Crowned by #devils. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Fall of Princes (John Lydgate’s version of De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium), England ca. 1450-1460. BL, Harley 1766, fol. 200r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Initial ‘F’. Chansonnier of Zeghere van Male, Bruges 1542. Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 125B fol. 25v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Rabbit in the shell. Guillaume de Machaut, Prise d&amp;#39;Alexandrie, Reims ca. 1372-1377. BNF, Français 1584, fol. 336v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Winged musician riding a leopard. Anjou Bible, Naples ca. 1340. Universiteitsbibliotheek Leuven, Cod. 1, fol. 307v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Sea turtle. Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Utrecht, ca. 1340-1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 110v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    #AllSaints. Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480. BnF, Latin 920, fols. 180r, 181r, 182r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Rabbit and #Goliath. Pontifical of Renaud de Bar, France ca. 1303-1316. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 298, fol. 7r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Origen emasculating himself. Roman de la Rose, France 15th century. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195, fol. 122v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Christus und die minnende Seele. Gedicht von Christus und der minnenden Seele, Constance ca. 1490. Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 710(322), fol. 6r-20r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    #Earthquake. #Apocalypse, Normandy ca. 1320-1330 BL, Add 17333, fol. 8r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Mandrake. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber, England 12th century. British Library, Harley 5294, fol. 43r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Nine circles of #Hell. #Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Italy c. 1420-1430. BnF, Italien 74, fol. 1v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    #Whore of Babylon. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 52v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Love is stronger than hate. #LoveIsLove. Maqamat al-Hariri (Maqāma 32), Syria or Iraq ca. 1240. BnF, Arabe 3929, fol. 122r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Siege of the Castle of Ladies. Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. British Library, Add 42130, fol. 75v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    Dolphin of Ganges and an #elephant. Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, France ca. 1290.. Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 320, fol. 118r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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    My bloody valentine. Aurora consurgens, St. Gallen 15th century. Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Ms. Rhenoviensis 172, fol. 19v. #medieval #MedievalArt