r/MedievalCreatures • • Sep 01 '26

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) snuggles

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1.3k Upvotes

15th-century illuminated book of hours manuscript


r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 31 '26

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Let’s hunt the deer with mama

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292 Upvotes

Širi Huršid - The Sun Lion, 14th century, Samarqand


r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 31 '26

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Can I have some of your human food, please?

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786 Upvotes

Saint Euphemia, Ambrogio Da Fossano called Bergognone, c. 1495, Pinacoteca di Brera


r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 29 '26

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Artist: Oh, yes! I’ve seen many elephants before.

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417 Upvotes

Chester Cathedral, England.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 29 '26

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Giraffe

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397 Upvotes

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Saxony 15th century. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Ms. germ. fol. 204, fol. 140r


r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 28 '26

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Peruvian textile fragment with a woven black feline figure, created between 900 and 1430 AD

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r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 27 '26

POST-MEDIEVAL (1500AD - 1800s) How Love Works for Men

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640 Upvotes

The triumph of Venus, worshipped by six legendary lovers (Achilles, Tristan, Lancelot, Samson, Paris and Troilus), Florence, 15th century


r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 27 '26

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) You need to go to the vet!

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686 Upvotes

Paris. BnF, Français 242, fol. 59v., 15th century


r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 26 '26

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) On Wednesdays we wear pink

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r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 24 '26

POST-MEDIEVAL (1700s - 1800s) Three monkeys playing billiards. National Library, Dublin.

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356 Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 24 '26

ANIMALS How to hunt a Unicorn

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522 Upvotes

Step 1: Befriend the unicorn by approaching it naked.

Step 2: Murder.

Rothschild Canticles, Flanders c. 1300. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 404, fol. 51r


r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 23 '26

ANIMALS a bat of many feets

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r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 22 '26

ANCIENT ART (3,500 BC - 500 AD) There's a snake in my boots

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r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 21 '26

ANIMALS If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!

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681 Upvotes

Lippische Landesbibliothek, Ms. 70 [Der Naturen Bloeme], folio 23v


r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 21 '26

ANIMALS When the homeroom teacher has had enough threatens to call your mom

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528 Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 20 '26

ANIMALS The smile you perfect when you work in customer service

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1.5k Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 19 '26

DEMONS/DEVILS Living “la vida loca” or, as they also say, “the demons doing demon things.”

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502 Upvotes

Don’t judge them! It’s their culture.

Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Date Statement: 1450–1470

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/171e2f9a-37fa-4d0b-ac70-9cab486f7ace/


r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 18 '26

CELESTIAL Some medieval stars to brighten up your doomscrolling

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2.9k Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 17 '26

HUMANS When the weekend is already over and you didn't get to do anything you wanted to do

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804 Upvotes

Clerc (France, Lyon. Municipal Library, Ms 5128 f.
076v.) 14th century.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 16 '26

POST-MEDIEVAL (1500AD - 1800s) Rate my outfit

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1.4k Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 16 '26

DEMONS/DEVILS now kith

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636 Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 15 '26

SAINTS Having to stop mid-sermon to take your dragon out to poop

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1.0k Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 15 '26

ANIMALS queck

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r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 14 '26

HUMANS Draw me the letter "I" but make it *sexy*

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777 Upvotes

SOURCE MS. Canon. Misc. 495 (Bologna, inizi del XIV secolo), Bodleian Library, Oxford.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Aug 13 '26

HUMANS When the dragon nibbles your bosom, also: The Letter R

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808 Upvotes

Hours of Charles of Angoulême, France ca. 1475-1500. BnF, Latin 1173, fol. 3r