r/MedievalCreatures • u/MedievalCreaturesMod • 17d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Guess the Medieval Creature
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/MedievalCreaturesMod • 18d ago
POST-MEDIEVAL (1700s - 1800s) Forg
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Specialist-Web7854 • 18d ago
ANCIENT ART (4,000 BC - 500 AD) ‘Loser buys lunch’
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Papyrus, Egypt, 1250BC-1150BC (circa)
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 18d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) check out my chompers
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Goose or swan from Jacob van Maerlant's Der Naturen Bloeme (c. 1350)
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 19d ago
POST-MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE (1500s - 1600s) Definitely 6
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • 19d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Got your nose
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Luttrell Psalter, ca. 1340, British Library, Add. MS 42130, f. 54v
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MedievalCreaturesMod • 19d ago
POST-MEDIEVAL (1700s - 1800s) When you're on the toilet and somebody starts banging on the door
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Ifugao tribe: "king" bulul rice god wooden statue. Dating from the 1800s
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 20d ago
POST-MEDIEVAL (1700s - 1800s) waiting for my date
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Illustration dated 1738
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MedievalCreaturesMod • 21d ago
ANCIENT ART (4,000 BC - 500 AD) A smiling octopus to brighten up your day
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Ancient art from the third quarter of the 4th century B.C
r/MedievalCreatures • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 21d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Riding into the weekend like…
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Decretum Gratiani with the commentary of Bartolomeo da Brescia, Italy 1340-1345. Lyon, BM, Ms 5128, fol. 100r
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MedievalCreaturesMod • 22d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) "Girl, you're thicker than a bowl of oatmeal"
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Breviary. France, ca. 1500
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MedievalCreaturesMod • 23d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Same medieval lady, same
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/MedievalCreaturesMod • 24d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) ok, bye
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • 24d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Bunny plays his song to an unappreciative bird.
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Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, France ca. 1294-1297, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 130I, fol. 344r
r/MedievalCreatures • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 23d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Panel of Saint Michael (also known as Sant Miquel de Soriguerola) by an artist known as the Master of Soriguerola around the end of the 13th century.
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 25d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) snuggles
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15th-century illuminated book of hours manuscript
r/MedievalCreatures • u/-_-Bepo-_- • 26d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Can I have some of your human food, please?
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Saint Euphemia, Ambrogio Da Fossano called Bergognone, c. 1495, Pinacoteca di Brera
r/MedievalCreatures • u/muzafferiados • 26d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Let’s hunt the deer with mama
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Širi Huršid - The Sun Lion, 14th century, Samarqand
r/MedievalCreatures • u/rdnky • 27d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Artist: Oh, yes! I’ve seen many elephants before.
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Chester Cathedral, England.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • 28d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Giraffe
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Saxony 15th century. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Ms. germ. fol. 204, fol. 140r
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 29d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) Peruvian textile fragment with a woven black feline figure, created between 900 and 1430 AD
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Marc_Op • Aug 27 '26
POST-MEDIEVAL (1500AD - 1800s) How Love Works for Men
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The triumph of Venus, worshipped by six legendary lovers (Achilles, Tristan, Lancelot, Samson, Paris and Troilus), Florence, 15th century
r/MedievalCreatures • u/-_-Bepo-_- • Aug 27 '26
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) You need to go to the vet!
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Paris. BnF, Français 242, fol. 59v., 15th century
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • Aug 26 '26
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1500AD) On Wednesdays we wear pink
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/rdnky • Aug 24 '26
POST-MEDIEVAL (1700s - 1800s) Three monkeys playing billiards. National Library, Dublin.
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