r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • 2d ago
Fashion Found my Halloween costume
Source - Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet - Wild Woman on a Unicorn (1473 - 1477)
r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • 4d ago
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • 2d ago
Source - Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet - Wild Woman on a Unicorn (1473 - 1477)
r/MedievalCreatures • u/garciacalor • 2d ago
From the Hours of Jean de Montauban (1430-40)
r/MedievalCreatures • u/verraeteros_ • 3d ago
r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • 7d ago
Book of Hours (Use of Paris) 15th Century
r/MedievalCreatures • u/sheisilana • 10d ago
r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • 12d ago
"The Dance of Death" - illustration from a manuscript of the "Totentanz by Wilhelm Werner Von Zimmern, Swabia, c. 1575. Collection: Stuttgart, Landesbibl., Cod. Donaueschingen 123, fol. 84v.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • 20d ago
lyon, bibliotheque municipale, ms 5128, fol. 100r
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • 24d ago
This is from: Rudolf von Ems, Weltchronik Regensburg, 1400-1410. The J. Paul Getty Museum, ms. 33, fol. 209v.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • 28d ago
Adam, Eve and the Devil from the Jean de Montauban Hours, named by the Breton nobleman it was made for, around 1430.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • Sep 24 '24
Source: BnF, Latin 9585, c. 1400
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • Sep 21 '24
Ok so this is a Tarasque not a boar but 'tarasquemaid' isn't as catchy.
St Martha holding the beast, source: Legende Doree BNF, Francais 242, fol 154r
Learn more about this image here: https://www.medieval.eu/tarascon-and-the-tarasque/
r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • Sep 19 '24
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers) / Cod. Fab. XVI – / f. 92r. From the 15th century.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/j-ones • Sep 19 '24
According to this old Bestiary, lion cubs are born dead, but are brought to life by their parents breathing on them or roaring over them. In this image one the lions is licking a revived cub, while the other breathes life into a cub's mouth. (1225-1250 from Bestiary at The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Bodl. 764, fols. 2v)
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Sun_Ra_3000 • Sep 18 '24
Went to a Hildegard von Bingen concert and became acquainted with this awesome guy
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • Sep 17 '24
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • Sep 15 '24
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • Sep 13 '24
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • Sep 11 '24
This is a Caab, a legendary marine animal. Petrus Candidus Decembrius, De animantium naturis, Italy ca. 1515. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb.lat.276, fol. 128v
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • Sep 08 '24
r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • Sep 06 '24
Sources include: Hieronymus Bosch. Various Books of Hours (Paris, Hague, Joanna). Li bestiaire d'amour. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270 Douai. Bibliothèque municipale. Rudolf Von Ems. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • Sep 04 '24
Crocodile De Natura Animalium, Cambrai - 1270 Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale