Saturday, December 21, 2013

Christmas scene in a 15th century manuscript (detail)

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

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

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

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Saturday, June 08, 2013

Simplicissimus

[1669]

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

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Sunday, March 10, 2013

année du serpent


année du serpent, originally uploaded by canecrabe.

Chartreuse de San Lorenzo di Padula (Campanie)

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Basilisk : Hatched from a cock’s egg.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/files/2012/07/Basilisk-r-l1.jpg

















From the article On the Trail of the Warsaw Basilisk at The Smithsonian Institute.
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Thursday, April 05, 2012

Turtle-doves

Queen Mary Psalter. England 1310-20
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Partridges

1310-20. detail. Queen Mary Psalter. BL
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Sunday, March 04, 2012

Cock Crowing

French 14th cent.
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Siren (Piscean)

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Monday, February 06, 2012

St. Catherine of Alexandria, martyred.

Paris French 14th. cent.Bodl_Douce313
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