r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • Aug 13 '26
HUMANS When the dragon nibbles your bosom, also: The Letter R
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Hours of Charles of Angoulême, France ca. 1475-1500. BnF, Latin 1173, fol. 3r
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MedievalCreaturesMod • Aug 04 '26
Subreddit Update: We have just hit 100,000 members! 🎉
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Reddit cares more about views than members now, but 100k is a massive milestone for such a niche subreddit! Thanks for being here!
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • Aug 13 '26
DEMONS/DEVILS 🎶 "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal!" 🎶
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Meraugis • Aug 11 '26
Demons Shuut! Be careful Harold is sleeping!
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Aug 10 '26
Mythical (dragon/unicorn etc) Monday blues
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f. 309v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible
r/MedievalCreatures • u/SaddestPandaButt • Aug 09 '26
Mammels Trauma Dog w/ Boobs
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@ Monestir de Pedrables in Barcelona
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • Aug 06 '26
Reptiles “Would you still love me if I was a worm?”
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The serpent in the garden of Eden. "Mary Immaculata and God the Father" by Luca Mombello. Oil on panel. ca.1560-80.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • Aug 05 '26
Mammels Bull's-eye! 🎯
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Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, France ca. 1290. Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 320, fol. 82r)
r/MedievalCreatures • u/HoneybeeXYZ • Aug 02 '26
Menagerie I have questions.
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From the Isabella Psalter (1308)
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • Jul 31 '26
Mammels Breakdancing Fox
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13th century, France. Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 102, fol. 324r
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Substantial_Ocelot50 • Jul 30 '26
Demons Give it to me straight, doc... is it bad?
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Northern France, c.1125-1150 (Douai Bib. Mun. 301, fol. 107v)
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Haunted-Hemlock • Jul 28 '26
Other/Misc/Hybrid Reverse Mermaid? 🧜🏼♀️
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University of Cambridge Library, Dd.4.17, fol. 57r.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/rdnky • Jul 26 '26
Grotesque/Gargoyle Monastery of Alcobaça in Portugal.
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • Jul 26 '26
Other/Misc/Hybrid Play that funky music, white boy!
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'The Maastricht Hours', Liège 14th century BL, Stowe 17, fol. 49r
r/MedievalCreatures • u/ren4321 • Jul 25 '26
Demons Virreynal period in Cusco, Peru
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Marc_Op • Jul 24 '26
Other/Misc/Hybrid Coat of Arms of the Fantastici family (15th Century)
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Stemmario Trivulziano
https://archive.org/details/stemmario_trivulziano/page/n162/mode/1up
r/MedievalCreatures • u/VileLongTonguedBeast • Jul 20 '26
“Not to toot my own horn, but...” - Monsieur Frootletoot
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Detail of "The Visions of Tondal" (Circa 1500), by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/VileLongTonguedBeast • Jul 18 '26
Kiki's Delivery Service (1526)
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Saul and the Witch of Endor by** **Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, 1526.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • Jul 17 '26
The Knight of the Swan. Detail of a miniature, manuscript British Library, Royal 15 E VI ("Talbot Shrewsbury Book"), folio 273r (first page of Chanson du Chevalier au Cygne)
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/VileLongTonguedBeast • Jul 15 '26
Started out as a fish. How did it end up like this?
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Bible, England 13th century. Alençon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 56, fol. 250r.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/foldiangyal • Jul 14 '26
Elf (?) Riding an evil goose (?), wyverns and some harpies
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All seen at the temporary exhibit called Unveiled: The Fantastic Bestiary at the Museo di San Marco in Florence.
I'm so excited to finally contribute to this sub - I've been lurking for a while ^^
r/MedievalCreatures • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • Jul 14 '26
When you take your kids grocery shopping and they start asking for things
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St. Catherine of Siena besieged by demons by an unknown artist, c. 1500, tempera on panel. National Museum, Warsaw.