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Head or tail? Book of hours, Bruges c. 1500. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.427, fol. 68r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Anti-vaccination activists. James le Palmer, Omne Bonum, London ca. 1360-1375. BL, Royal 6 E VI/2, fol. 301r. #medieval #MedievalArt

War #elephant. bestiary, England 12th century. BL, Add 11283 fol. 4r. #medieval #MedievalArt

#Cat. Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, France ca. 1290. Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 320, fol. 72r. #medieval #MedievalArt

#Cavemen. Le secret de l'histoire naturelle, France ca. 1480-1485. BnF, Français 22971, fol. 13r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Batbeaver. ‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’, Bruges 1486-1506. BL, Add 18852, fol. 150r. #medieval #MedievalArt

#Cats’ habits. ‘The Ashmole Bestiary’, England 13th century (Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511, fol. 35v). #medieval #MedievalArt

Constellation Canis Major (Greater Dog, not a half lion, half tadpole…). astronomical miscellany, Germany or Switzerland 15th century. Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 172, fol. 49r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Hellmouth. #Apocalypse, Belgium ca. 1313. BnF, Français 13096, fol. 86r. #medieval #MedievalArt

M ultitool death. Poncher Hours, Paris c. 1500. LA, Getty Museum, Ms. 109, fol. 156r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Angel says: keep your hands on top of the blanket, guys! Queen Mary Psalter, London 1310-1320. British Library, Royal 2 B VII, fol. 131v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Bear club. Gaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, Paris 15th century. BnF, Français 616, fol. 27v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Bats. Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre, France 1420. BL, Royal 20 B XX, fol. 51v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Bees. Aberdeen Bestiary, England ca. 1200. Aberdeen University Library, MS 24, fol. 63r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Oddish. herbal, Italy 15th century. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, LJS 419, fol. 77r. #medieval #MedievalArt

#Waterworld. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France c. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 42v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Monkey riding a goat with a hunting owl. Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. British Library, Add 42130, fol. 38r. #medieval #MedievalArt

The Three Dead. ‘De Lisle Psalter’, England ca. 1310. BL, Arundel 83, fol. 127r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Bear rider. Les Grandes Heures du duc de Berry, Paris 1409. BnF, Latin 919, fol. 75r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Goat-headed rooster. 'Hours of Joanna the Mad', Bruges 1486-1506. BL, Add 18852, fol. 94v. #medieval #MedievalArt