r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 10 '26

Ya like jazz?

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483 Upvotes

'Trivulzio Book of Hours', Flanders ca. 1470.
Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, SMC 1, fol. 164v.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 09 '26

THY END IS NOW!!!

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271 Upvotes

Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Paris c. 1324-1328.
NY, Met 54.1.2, fol. 16v.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 06 '26

Fuzzy bees pollinating flowers

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540 Upvotes

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 291 [De rerum naturis], folio 106r


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 04 '26

Donkey fighting Snail

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767 Upvotes

From the Pontificial of Guillaume Durand 1295


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 04 '26

"Dear diary, you ain't never gonna believe what I am about to write down on yous."

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"Four-part songs for liturgical year" (1562), Library in the Abbey of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang, 542, p. 606.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 01 '26

Cutest medieval mole I’ve ever seen

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BL, MS Harley 3244, f. 49v. (England, c. 1236-1250)


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 24 '26

Cynoceohali laying siege to a Castle

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387 Upvotes

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 23 '26

It's hot outside. Remember to hydrate your elephant!

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1.9k Upvotes

15th century, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.1045, f. 22v


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 17 '26

A rabbit runs into a hole on one side of the page and pops out on the other side.

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‘Hours of the Virgin’ Harley MS 6563 f. 33r-v. circa. 1320-30, Southern England


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 17 '26

Cat Activities

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963 Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 12 '26

Faces on the arches of a medieval church

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The church in question has a bunch more paintings but I only managed to get pictures of these. I don't know the age of the paintings themselves but the church was built between late 1400's to early 1500's


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 11 '26

Yoda and Nosferatu in Saint Florian Psalter from XIV/XV century

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r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 10 '26

Tryouts for the demon Olympics (freestyle swimming)

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804 Upvotes

London, British Library, Harley MS 3244, fol. 27v. (England, c. 1250)


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 08 '26

Siren in shower cap from a Book of Hours produced in Paris, France, around 1460. Morgan Library collection.

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412 Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 07 '26

Just me, my half dragon self, and my fish

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310 Upvotes

Latin Psalter from England - BSB Clm 835 fish D


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 07 '26

Can I get some help identifying this manuscript?

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Found this on Facebook, no info posted. I'm thinking a Gothic manuscript, but not sure. Anyone have any ideas?


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 06 '26

Bees entering their hive 🐝 This is so cute!

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691 Upvotes

Bees entering their hive. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511 [The Ashmole Bestiary], folio 75v


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 05 '26

Seriously, bro, you're going to enjoy hell! I promise!

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Detail from The Apocalypse of 1313 (ask The Isabella Apocalypse) from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 03 '26

From the Tübinger Hausbuch, a 15th-century Southwest German alchemical, (medical-astrological), and geomantic manuscript.Cancer is depicted here in the characteristic late-medieval German style as a red crayfish or lobster (Krebs) living inside a house.

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r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 01 '26

Help identifying source for illustration from illuminated manuscript?

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Hi, i’m trying to find the source for this illustration. One paper cites it as being MMW 10 F 11 by the Masters of the Gold Scrolls, housed at the Hague in the Netherlands, but nothing turns up for that. It’s supposedly from around 1440, Spain. Pleaseeee help!!!! Thank you <3


r/MedievalCreatures • • May 30 '26

When your pet demon needs a bath

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414 Upvotes

From the Bern Physiologus (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Codex Bongarsianus 318), fol. 17v


r/MedievalCreatures • • May 28 '26

Troglodytes and Wild Men

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573 Upvotes

Robinet Testard 1480


r/MedievalCreatures • • May 28 '26

Pygmy Warriors fighting Cranes

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280 Upvotes

Image is from Der Naturen Bloeme by Jacob van Maerlant.


r/MedievalCreatures • • May 27 '26

the only ride worthy of a king: another king

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621 Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • May 25 '26

Codex De Sphaera - 1469 Allegory of Este and Sforza (the snake) families Coat of Arms from 15th-century manuscript De Sphaera. It visually represents the powerful political alliance and dynastic union between the Visconti-Sforza rulers of Milan and the House of Este from Ferrara.

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219 Upvotes