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Superlion. Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480. BnF, Latin 920, fol. 29v.
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Owl. book of hours, Hainaut ca. 1450-60. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.267, fol. 179v.
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Constellation #Aries. Cicero’s Aratea with Hyginus’s Astronomica, Reims(?) ca. 820-850. British Library, Harley 647, fol. 2v.
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#Lion face. book of hours, Savoie 15th century. Clermont-Ferrand, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 84, fol. 27r.
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Magpie and owl. Psalter, Canterbury ca. 1210-1220. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1525, fol. 80r.
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Rabbit knight. Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, France ca. 1294-1297. Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 130II, fol. 87v.
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The king of the cats. Antonius von Pforr, Buch der Beispiele, Swabia ca. 1475-1482. Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 84, fol. 227v.
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Queck! Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century. British Library, Add 49622, fol. 190v.
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Another funeral procession. Macclesfield Psalter, England ca. 1330. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, fol. 11r.
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Snowball fight. Tacuinum Sanitatis, Milan or Pavia ca. 1390-1400. BnF, Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673, fol. 96v.
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Scenes in #hell. #Apocalypse, Belgium ca. 1313. BnF, Français 13096, fol. 86v.
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Saintscape. Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480. BnF, Latin 920, fol. 320r.
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Duelling monkeys. psalter and hours, Ghent ca. 1315-1325. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.82, fol. 205v.
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Elephant rat. ‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’, Bruges 1486-1506. BL, Add 18852, fol. 203r.
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Siege rabbits. Pontifical of Renaud de Bar, France ca. 1303-1316. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 298, fol. 41r.
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Angry snail. Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 109v.
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Buttfaced stag. Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305. Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 107, fol. 100v.
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Fishcat vs. spear rat. Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 161v.
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Royal poo. Prose Lancelot, France 1316. BL, Add 10294/1, fol. 1dr.
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Water hound chasing a water hare. above: Psalm 3:5 ’[Voce mea ad Dominum clamavi]; et exaudivit me [de monte sancto suo]’ (‘I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill’). Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305.
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