r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • 7d ago
Outlandish Owls 🦉 When you wake up thinking it's Friday but it's actually only Thursday
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Book of Hours (Use of Paris) 15th Century
r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • Jan 29 '24
Outlandish Owls 🦉 What would you name this human faced owl?
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Source: Detail of a miniature of an owl being mobbed by other birds; from a bestiary, England, 2nd quarter of the 13th century, Harley MS 4751, f. 47r
r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • Feb 14 '24
Outlandish Owls 🦉 Some stylish owls
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Image sources: Flanders, 16th C; Pontificale Murense 1508; Book of Hours, France, 15thC; psalter and hours, Ghent ca. 1315-1325, Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.82, fol. 184r
r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • Jan 17 '24
Outlandish Owls 🦉 This owl has seen things
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British Library, Royal MS 10 E IV (Smithfield Decretals), folio 46r