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Congratulations, you had a baby! And your baby also had a baby

Wettinger Gradual, from Cologne, c. 1330. (Aarau, Kantonsbibliothek, Ms. WettFm3, fol. 64v).

u/Substantial_Ocelot50 — 1 day ago
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Just a normal man, fishing for normal fish.

Prose adaptation of Pelerinage de vie humaine of Guillaume de Deguileville, Hainaut ca. 1490.
Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève Ms. fr. 182, fol. 162v

u/TalkingWoodlandBeast — 6 days ago
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When your friend takes up a new hobby but he's really bad at it

Psalter from Breslau. Silesia (modern Poland), c.1255-1267. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum Ms 36-1950, fol. 77r.

u/Substantial_Ocelot50 — 6 days ago
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All hail the borb!

Rochechouart Hours, use of Rome. Manuscript on vellum, illuminated by a master from the circle of Jean Poyer and Giovanni Todeschino. France, Tours, c. 1500 (before 1504).

u/1O218 — 8 days ago
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When you buy a unicorn from Temu

Physiologus , in the Dicta Chrysostomi form. Williram von Ebersberg, Expositio in Cantica Canticorum. Decorated Manuscript in Latin on vellum. Germany, Erfurt, Saint-Peter's Abbey, c. 1150-1180. c. 175 x 132 mm. Details from: f. 65r, f. 66r.

u/1O218 — 8 days ago
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Another section of the Hyakki Yagyo Emaki (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons), which is traditionally attributed to the artist Tosa Mitsunobu (1434-1525) and believed to have been created in the first half of the 16th century.

Bakezōri (Straw Sandal Monster): The yellowish, fibrous spirit with long hair strands. It is depicted riding a straw-rope hobbyhorse.

Beaked Demon & Umbrella Spirit: A small, naked demon walking with a cane holds up a large, enclosed, dark-colored umbrella. This serves as an early depiction of what would later evolve into the famous Kasa-obake (the hopping, one-eyed umbrella ghost) during the Edo period.

Hairy Horned Beast: The long-snout creature wearing a flowing black cloak that stretches across the floor.

These being are tsukumogami, which are household objects that have come to life after reaching 100 years of age.

u/CryptographerKey2847 — 8 days ago
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Part of the Hyakki Yagyo Emaki (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons), which is traditionally attributed to the artist Tosa Mitsunobu (1434-1525) and believed to have been created in the first half of the 16th century.

According to Japanese folklore, the demon with hammer is an Oari which believed to be the dead spirit of a giant ant. The red Bulbous creature is called on an Okka.

https://yokai.com/kanazuchibou/

https://yokai.com/okka/

u/CryptographerKey2847 — 9 days ago
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From the Spiezer Chronik (or Spiezer Schilling), a historical Swiss manuscript created in the 1480s by the chronicler Diebold Schilling the Elder of Bern.

The bears symbolize the Bernese contingent of the Swiss mercenaries during the medieval period.

u/CryptographerKey2847 — 10 days ago
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Ethiopia according to the Livre des merveilles du monde (MS M.461 fol. 26v France, probably Angers, ca. 1460.)

u/emilos260 — 9 days ago
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"ok, which one of you pooped on the carpet?"

Manuscript - Bibliothèque Nationale de France, lat. 16169 [De animalibus], folio 286r

CONTEXT - Albertus Magnus, dressed as a bishop holding a crozier, introduces the quadrupedal animals, including sheep, goat, ape, horse, dog, lion, stag, elephant, boar, hedgehog (with fruit stuck to its spines), and others.

u/1O218 — 12 days ago
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who let the dogs out

France [Loire School]; circa 1500.

Context - Dives sits at a dining table with his wife, and watches as Lazarus, surrounded by dogs, begs in the street, and is chased by Dives' servants

u/1O218 — 13 days ago