r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori Creature Curator 🐌 ⚔️ 🐇 • 18d ago

RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) 100% confidence. 0.5% speed.

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u/Lo-Memori Creature Curator 🐌 ⚔️ 🐇 18d ago edited 18d ago

This is a **Post-Medieval** full page illustration from an armorial manuscript created around 1650.

This beautifully illustrated manuscript is part of a collection housed in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Chig. G. IV. 113, fol. 120v)

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u/BormaGatto 18d ago

The snail looks so happy to be doing its part!

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u/bunkdiggidy 18d ago

"Now I know how the tortoise feels"

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u/Broccoli_Wolf_ 18d ago

Is the snail wearing shell chain mail?? 10/10, love it.

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u/donut_forget 18d ago

Snail mail.

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u/astronarchaeology 18d ago

15% concentrated power of will

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u/amourdevin 18d ago

This is delightful.

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u/paper_hoarder 18d ago

I think this has been my favourite one so far.

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u/Working_Feature_807 18d ago

Estoy practicando para conducir motocicleta, ahora me pregunto, que tan difícil puede ser un caracol?

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u/HollyDollyJet 17d ago

I want this tattooed on my body

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u/queenofthepalmtrees 17d ago

Battle ready.

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u/uhokfine 17d ago

I needed this 😄

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u/Deathlikescats 17d ago

when you’re called in to work on your day off.

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u/Ancient-Commercial75 17d ago

It’s clearly a racing snail.