01 February 2019

13th century Bible illustration


Bible, France c. 1270-1290.  Bibliothèque d'Agglomération de Saint-Omer, Ms. 5, fol. 246r

Via the archive at Discarding Images.

5 comments:

  1. This looks Dr. Seuss-ish, or maybe something you'd expect in the Voynich Manuscript.

    Lurker111

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  2. i am so glad that they documented species that later went extinct.

    I-)

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  3. Too ugly for the arc.

    Yeah well, I've stood behind the rope at the club and can empathize.

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  4. I think those are extinct now. :)

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  5. I have read (I cannot remember where) that illustrations were sometimes created to cover-up mistakes. Not all, but odd ones, often in the margins.

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