Server at work was down for 2 hours so I rigged & animated this little medieval bat friend. I couldn't do any fun texture work this time around but
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elephants and ducks
in "le secret de l'histoire naturelle [...]", illuminated manuscript, france, 15th c.
source: Paris, BnF, Français 22971, fol. 31r
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A bird eating stuff out of a vase while a fox licks it
Add MS 62925 f.34r
Source: British Library
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Poor guy :(
This manuscript was made, probably in the 1310s, for someone connected with the church of St Andrew at Gorleston in Norfolk, and hence gets its common name ‘The Gorleston Psalter’. This manuscript is rich in ‘bas-de-page’, literally bottom-of-the-page, illustrations. This image shows one such picture: a fox carries a goose away in its mouth, and the goose says ‘queck’ (quack). The scene is probably from the tale of Reynard the fox. Images in the margins of medieval manuscripts were there to instruct but also to amuse. They often contain visual observations of the times and society.
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20100709185743/http://prodigi.bl.uk/illcat/tours/Add49622.htm
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The snail without its shell
And the angry oyster
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helo tumblr I offer u One Medieval Snail Redraw
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Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, quae praeter naturae ordinem, et in superioribus et his inferioribus mundi regionibus, ab exordio mundi usque ad haec nostra tempora acciderunt. (1557) Conrad Lycosthenes
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