Medieval manuscript marginalia

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Inkulinati is a brilliant and hilarious ink-based strategy video game inspired by medieval manuscripts' grotesque and beautiful art. Master the ancient art of ink, summon armies of bizarre and unusual creatures, and become the Academy's most illustrious and powerful Inkulinati

normal bird, france, 11th century

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Medieval manuscript illustration depicting a snail. Create your own unique AI art with Craiyon for free.

We're no strangers to the delights of the rude drawings that monks doodled in the margins of medieval manuscripts around here (1, 2, 3), but University of Bonn medievialist Erik…

Here at Quirk Books we are of the opinion that medieval manuscripts are among the most amazing works of book art there are. We especially like the manuscripts where weird things happen in the margins. And especially when sweet, innocent animals, such as rabbits, turn into lean, mean killing machines. Who knew that Thumper could be so vicious?

20 bucks say the rabbit riding the snail man's got this.

Many of our readers will already be familiar with our Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, a resource which enables you to search by shelfmark, keyword, or date, as well as by more advanced fields such as language and provenance. We thought it was about time to give a reminder that all...

Detail from The Luttrell Psalter, British Library Add MS 42130 (medieval manuscript,1325-1340), f22v

standing fox Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072 (BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 14r)

Lancelot du Lac, Northeastern France, perhaps in Saint-Quentin or Laon, between 1310 and 1315

Cannot wait for 2017 [BL, Add 36684]

Detail from medieval manuscript, British Library Stowe MS 17 'The Maastricht Hours', f84v

The word cartoon first came into existence in the beginning of the Renaissance to refer to a study in preparation for a more permanent work of art, such as a painting. Later, in the 19th century the word "cartoon" came to refer to a comic picture with satirical or exaggerated graphic features--as in today's comic books, newspaper funnies, political cartoons, and graphic novels. However, this leaves out the marginalia of medieval prayerbooks and hymnals. Here, surrounding the image of…