How-old in hell. Thomas de Saluces, Le Chevalier errant, Paris ca. 1403-1404. BnF, Français 12559, p. 192.
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Initial #cat. Psalter, Canterbury ca. 1210-1220. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1525, fol. 14r.
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#fabulamurina (mouse story) 496
euge! ver adest et sol lucet (Hooray! Spring is here and the sun is shining). Silvius in ramulo salicis sedet, amenta lanata spectans (Silvius is sitting on a willow twig, looking at the furry catkins).

Christus und die minnende Seele. Gedicht von Christus und der minnenden Seele, Constance ca. 1490. Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 710(322), fol. 6r-20r.
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cavē Idus Martias! #bewaretheidesofmarch #minimuslatin

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 495
diēs matrum in Britannia adest (It's Mothers' Day in Britain). Silvius narcissum flavum Minimae dat (Silvius gives Minima a yellow daffodil). "mamma optima!" stridet ("Best mummy!" he squeaks)

Divine intervention. Thomasin von Zerclaere, Der welsche Gast, Bavaria 1256. Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. germ. 389, fol. 75v.
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#Dragon-eater. bestiary, England c. 1200. Aberdeen University Library, MS 24, fol. 47r.
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Eat my cross. Speculum humanae salvationis, Basel 15th century. BnF, Latin 512, fol. 30v.
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Standing fox. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 14r.
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