Christmas scene in a 15th century manuscript (detail)

Christmas scene in a 15th century manuscript (detail), originally uploaded by e-codices.

Manuscript title: Cistercian Gradual , Prague (Czech Republic) 15th century, Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek

Merman. dressed as monk holds fish, MS Bodley 533, f 26r. Brit. Lib

Merman. dressed as monk holds fish, MS Bodley 533, f 26r. Brit. Lib, originally uploaded by tony harrison.

Simplicissimus

Grimmelshausen - Simplicissimus Cover page with "Baldanders" [1669], originally uploaded by petrus.agricola.

[1669]

AF Cambridge Trinity College Library, ms. O.2.14 Rochester Bestiary Guillaume le clerc b

AF Cambridge Trinity College Library, ms. O.2.14 Rochester Bestiary Guillaume le clerc b, originally uploaded by petrus.agricola.

année du serpent

année du serpent, originally uploaded by canecrabe.

Chartreuse de San Lorenzo di Padula (Campanie)

Basilisk : Hatched from a cock’s egg.

From the article On the Trail of the Warsaw Basilisk at The Smithsonian Institute.

Turtle-doves

Turtle-doves. margin. Queen Mary Psalter. England 1310-20. BL, originally uploaded by tony harrison.

Queen Mary Psalter. England 1310-20

Partridges

Partridges. England 1310-20. detail. Queen Mary Psalter. BL, originally uploaded by tony harrison.

1310-20. detail. Queen Mary Psalter. BL

Cock Crowing

Cock crowing and man and woman watch. French 14th cent. Bodl_Douce30, originally uploaded by tony harrison.

French 14th cent.

Siren (Piscean)

Siren. detail English 13th cent. Bestiary. bodl_Douce88, originally uploaded by tony harrison.

St. Catherine of Alexandria, martyred.

St. Catherine of Alexandria, martyred. Paris French 14th. cent.Bodl_Douce313, originally uploaded by tony harrison.

Paris French 14th. cent.Bodl_Douce313