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easy riderGuillaume de Digulleville, Pèlerinage de vie humaine, France 14th centuryAix-en-Provence,

lumberjackPierre de Hangest, Les Omelies Saint Grégoire pape, Bruges ca. 1470BL, Royal 15 D V, fol.

Playful figures and creatures spring to life among the foliate borders of this beautiful manuscript

Les très belles heures de Notre-Dame.Réalisation commandée par Jean 1er de Berry en 1389.

crucified heartRené of Anjou, Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance, France ca. 1470Cologny, Fondation

bishop and nun‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th centuryBL, Stowe 17, fol. 49r

Hercules, stahp!Raoul Lefèvre, Histoires de Troyes, Cognac ca. 1500BnF, Français 252, fol. 99r

serpent queenUlmannus, Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit, Franconia ca. 1470München, Bayerische Staat

Manuscript Illumination with Initial S, from a Choir Book via Medieval ArtMedium: Tempera, ink, and

astronomersBartholomeus Anglicus, ‘Livre des propriétés des choses’ (‘De proprietatibus rerum’, Fren

cma-medieval-art:Initial E from a Municipal Law Book: The Last Judgment, c. 1330, Cleveland Museum o

Page from the ‘Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain’(circa 1500) by Master of the Fi

marine beastsMatthew Paris, Chronica maiora, St Albans ca. 1255Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS

creation of the animalsBible, Germany c. 1445New York Public Library, MA 104, fol. 3r

undead armyTrès Riches Heures du duc de Berry, Bourges 1411-1416Chantilly, Musée Condé, 65 (1284), f

drummer catbook of hours, England ca. 1300Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.102, fol. 78v

Godfrey of Bouillon being “crowned” as Lord of Jerusalem. IIRC Godfrey died having ruled

wildlife of LibyaLe secret de l'histoire naturelle, France ca. 1480-1485BnF, Français 22971, fol. 41

anti-vaccination activistsJames le Palmer, Omne Bonum, London ca. 1360-1375BL, Royal 6 E VI/2, fol.

catPeterborough Bestiary, Peterborough c. 1300-1310Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 53, fol. 19

cma-medieval-art:Leaf from a Gradual: Initial (M) with St. Andrew (recto), Jacopo Filippo d’ Argenta

The Thinker MonkeyBreviary of Mary of Savoy, Lombardy ca. 1430Chambéry, Bibliothèque municipale, ms

In this book of hours from the mid to late 1400s, an elegantly illuminated initial letter P contains

cavemenLe secret de l'histoire naturelle, France ca. 1480-1485BnF, Français 22971, fol. 13r

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