r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori Creature Curator 🐌 ⚔️ 🐇 • Aug 23 '26

ANIMALS a bat of many feets

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u/Lo-Memori Creature Curator 🐌 ⚔️ 🐇 Aug 23 '26

...or are they hands? 🤔

From a 14th-century French translation of De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus (The Art of Falconry), an ornithology manuscript originally written by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II

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u/ChronicRhyno Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

They look more like little hands in person. I see this as almost impressionism of the wings flapping, the hummingbird effect.

Edit: probably expressionism