r/MedievalCats

Pena Palace in Sintra, Portugal.

Sant Jaume de Vilafranca de Conflent, France

real medieval church

Latin 1393 is a famous late 15th-century or early 16th-century Book of Hours. Kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), this manuscript is a remarkable example of private devotional texts favored by the wealthy laity during the Middle Ages. Beyond its traditional religious texts, Latin 1393 is famous for its playful, eccentric, and occasionally bizarre marginal illustrations.

Folio 31v features a man in a red robe with a hood resembling cat ears, pointing to an open page for a cat sitting before him.

Use of Rome, from the 1500's - Source in Comments

The art / the model (andean cat)

It also has a cat and dog playing right in the middle of everything.

Was told these cats of Mexico City might be welcome here. All photos by me, taken in 2025. Some of these are very much medieval.