The elephant in the room....🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 Bodleian Library Arch. G b.6; Historia naturale di Caio Plinio Secondo, tradocta di lingua latina in fiorentina per Christophoro Landino; 1476 CE; Italy (Venice); f.93v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

nosu, f.n: nose. (NO-zuh / ˈnɔ-zʌ) Image: Bible; France, c. 1270-1290; Bibliothèque d'Agglomération de Saint-Omer, Ms. 5, f. 246r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Manicule in the margin BL Royal MS 6 E VII/2; James le Palmer, Omne Bonum (Jacob-Zacharias); c.1360 CE-c.1375 CE; f.435r

Feel like you've been swimming upstream? 🐟 Take yourself on an adventure to the Getty Center this Fall! 💙 🗺️ Alexander Adventuring Underwater is on view in Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages now through November 30, 2025.

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Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on 22nd September. Here in the margin is depicted the blowing of the shofar. l'shanah tovah u'metukah 🍯 BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.251v

Its my birthday im not even joking

Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts #SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky

Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts #SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky

✸ 𝖆𝖛𝖆𝖎𝖑𝖆𝖇𝖑𝖊 ✸ Depiction of a Blemee based on an illumination found in Royal MS. B. XX. Original is housed in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Watercolour, Sakura Pens and metallic acrylics on Fabriano. #art #artsky #blueskyart #illustration #illumination #medieval #medievalart #medievalsky

johanna and blake #OurPermanentVacation #opvcomic 2/2

johanna and blake #OurPermanentVacation #opvcomic 1/2



Who wins the marginalia 4 on 4? All from Book of Hours, France, Paris, ca. 1460MS M.282 #medievalsky #medievalart #illuminatedmanuscript #marginalia #hybrid #medievalbestiary #bestiary #bestiario

Would you guys prefer if i added the source to every medidval image in the alt text? Its more work from me but maybe its more serious and informative, idk, anyone have an opinion?

Some medieval whales from medieval maps as horrible monsters because thats what they were to sailors! Big ass mouths and ocean monsters, Here Be Dragons! #medievalsky #medievalmaps #medievalbestiary #seamonsters #whale #ballena #medievalmonsters

LIONS! VERY FUNNY LIONS! #medievalsky #medievalart #medieval #medievalbestiary #bestiary #bestiario #marginalia #lion #leon

John Cassavetes y su mujer, Gena Rowlands, que también tuvo un caneo como mujer entre el público de un club nocturno, en el set de rodaje de: • Shadows (Sombras) (1959) de John Cassavetes.

Dragon Slaying! A symbol of bravery and strenght and control of monsters! Poor dragons tho they were probably just chilling #medievalsky #medievalart #medievalbestiary #dragon #knight #saint #dragonslaying #bestiary #bestiario

Whore of Babylon. Apocalypse, Saint-Amand Abbey 9th century. Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 99, fol. 31r. #medieval #medievalart

Red sneakers. book of hours, Bruges or Ghent 15th century. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 287, fol. 80r. #medieval #medievalart

Monster nun. book of hours, Flanders 14th century. Walters Art Museum, W.90, fol. 108v. #medieval #medievalart

Burning salamander depicted as a griffin. Bestiary, Thérouanne ca. 1270. LA, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 95v. #medieval #medievalart

#lion crested helmet. Bartholomeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum (French translation), Ahun 1480. BnF, Français 9140, fol. 1r. #medieval #medievalart

Crocodile. ‘the Rochester Bestiary’, England 13th century. British Library, Royal 12 F XIII, fol. 24r. #medieval #medievalart

Toad is the best character created by Nintendo AND the best character in any Mario Kart, his greatness is as big as his big mushroom fucking head

Most medieval illustrators had obvious difficulty imagining a giraffe. Beyond looking like a leopard-spotted camel, it was described as being so tall in the front and short in the back that it seemed to be sitting down.

This particular illustrator from c1350 seemed to have reversed the front and back lengths. #medievalbeasts #medievalmanuscripts #medievalart #giraffe #giraffes

Finally saw the video, yeah he wasnt surviving that

Also the Gretchen Felker Martin thing is pure bullshit

The timing for this episode was hilarious and i would hate it if it became lost media or taken out of the season packages. They didnt know he was gonna die dude

dopes

The well worn ‘Sea of Steps’ at Wells Cathedral in Somerset. Dating from the late 13th century, the steps lead to the Cathedral’s Chapter House. 📸 My own. #StairwellSaturday #WellsCathedral

Peak episode

Will do an special on him soon

The historical Saint Sebastian did not actually die from arrows but Mantegna (d. OTD 1506) got carried away in his fab antiquarian imagination.

#Caturday An image from an illustrated version of a 13th-c. Arabic treatise called 'Marvels of Things Created & Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing'. And, no, they are not holding cell phones...🤳 🗃️ #arthistory #earlymodern #cat #catsofbluesky #cats #medievalsky #skystorians

Omg @thembofication.bsky.social in a #DragRace cast leak?!

12 and a half hours 👍

Bishop on a donkey. Le livre de Lancelot du Lac & other Arthurian Romances, Northern France 13th century. Beinecke, MS 229, fol. 104v. #medieval #medievalart

Honestly just don’t talk about it

grǣdig, adj: greedy, covetous. (GRADD-ih / ˈgræː-dɪj) Image: La Somme le Roy; France, 1290-1300; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add. 28162, f. 9v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

anyway, moeney

Does the one on the far right having that hat means he was jewish?

14th September is the Feast of the Holy Cross. Here is depicted St Helena finding the Cross and the adoration of the True Cross. BL Yates Thompson MS 3; 'The Dunois Hours'; c 1439 CE-c 1450 CE; France (Paris); f.184r