For #MedievalMonday + #ManuscriptMonday : a smiley flat friend!
#Ray, f.95v in Lippische Landesbibliothek, Ms. 70 (Der Naturen Bloeme), South Holland or Flanders, c.1287-90
https://digitale-sammlungen.llb-detmold.de/content/pageview/6246649
#Fish

A page from an 8th century Irish ‘Pocket’ Gospel showing St. Luke holding a copy of his Gospel. Part of the collections at The British Library. 📷 My own. #ManuscriptMonday #BritishLibrary

Beautiful 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of Psalm 1, depicting a young man with a basket of grapes 🍇 #ManuscriptMonday Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 76; Psalter and New Testament (Volume III of the ‘Ranshofen Bible’); c. 1140-1150; Austria, Salzburg (?); f.1v @[email protected]

For #ManuscriptMonday:
#Mammals & #birds (plus some bonus #insects ), fols. 43r & 208r from Horae (Cambrai) [Heures de Boussu], France, 1490-95
Gallican BnF / Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal Ms-1185 réserve
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55007801k/f95.planchecontact

Angels place a crown upon St Edmund's head; and place a sceptre and palm in his hands, while two monks embrace his feet. #ManuscriptMonday Morgan Library, MS M.736; The Life and Miracles of St. Edmund; c.1130 CE; England, Bury St Edmunds; f.22v

A beautiful border of flowers #ManuscriptMonday BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.146r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

#ManuscriptMonday + #MusicMonday : Bagpiping piggy! 🐷🎶
Illustration in a ca. 16th c. Irish illuminated manuscript:
Dindshenchas, RIA MS D ii 2, f.34r.
Royal Irish Academy:
https://www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_D_ii_2.html#81

#ManuscriptMonday + #MonochromeMonday :
“Catching Sinners”
Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools)
Author: Sebastian Brant
Artist: Albrecht Dürer (?)
Switzerland (Basel), 1497
Ink on laid paper
91.276, pp. XLIII-XLIIII
“The text that accompanies this scene refers to the sin of adultery. Here, the image of a cat chasing and catching mice might serve as a warning that sinners will ultimately get caught, too.”
On display at Walter’s Art Museum
“Paws on Parchment” show
#CatsInArt

##ManuscriptMonday + #MonochromeMonday :
"Such a #cat is not to be caught
without mittens"
Proverbes en rimes (Proverbs in Rhyme), France (Savoy), ca. 1490, ink on laid paper
W.313, fols. 79v-80r
On display at Walters Art Museum “Paws on Parchment” show
#CatsInArt

For #MedievalMonday / #ManuscriptMonday :
#Fox preaching to #chickens and a #goose
Detail from Maastricht Book of Hours, Liège-Maastricht area, c.1300-25
British Library Stowe MS 17, fol. 84r
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BL_Stowe_MS_17_fol._84r_Fox_preaching.png
#MedievalMarginalia #BirdsInArt