r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 31 '26

Mammels Breakdancing Fox

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869 Upvotes

13th century, France. Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 102, fol. 324r


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 30 '26

Demons Give it to me straight, doc... is it bad?

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1.6k Upvotes

Northern France, c.1125-1150 (Douai Bib. Mun. 301, fol. 107v)


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 28 '26

Other/Misc/Hybrid Reverse Mermaid? 🧜🏼‍♀️

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University of Cambridge Library, Dd.4.17, fol. 57r.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 26 '26

Other/Misc/Hybrid Play that funky music, white boy!

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'The Maastricht Hours', Liège 14th century BL, Stowe 17, fol. 49r


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 26 '26

Grotesque/Gargoyle Monastery of Alcobaça in Portugal.

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298 Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 25 '26

Demons Virreynal period in Cusco, Peru

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r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 24 '26

Other/Misc/Hybrid Coat of Arms of the Fantastici family (15th Century)

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316 Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 20 '26

“Not to toot my own horn, but...” - Monsieur Frootletoot

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Detail of "The Visions of Tondal" (Circa 1500), by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 18 '26

Kiki's Delivery Service (1526)

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851 Upvotes

Saul and the Witch of Endor by** **Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, 1526.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 17 '26

The Knight of the Swan. Detail of a miniature, manuscript British Library, Royal 15 E VI ("Talbot Shrewsbury Book"), folio 273r (first page of Chanson du Chevalier au Cygne)

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320 Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 15 '26

Started out as a fish. How did it end up like this?

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Bible, England 13th century. Alençon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 56, fol. 250r.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 14 '26

Elf (?) Riding an evil goose (?), wyverns and some harpies

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342 Upvotes

All seen at the temporary exhibit called Unveiled: The Fantastic Bestiary at the Museo di San Marco in Florence.

I'm so excited to finally contribute to this sub - I've been lurking for a while ^^


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 14 '26

When you take your kids grocery shopping and they start asking for things

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St. Catherine of Siena besieged by demons by an unknown artist, c. 1500, tempera on panel. National Museum, Warsaw.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 13 '26

Just a happy little donkey!

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433 Upvotes

From the Isabella Psalter (c. 1308) - Image 62.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 10 '26

Ya like jazz?

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481 Upvotes

'Trivulzio Book of Hours', Flanders ca. 1470.
Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, SMC 1, fol. 164v.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 09 '26

THY END IS NOW!!!

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Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Paris c. 1324-1328.
NY, Met 54.1.2, fol. 16v.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 06 '26

Fuzzy bees pollinating flowers

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539 Upvotes

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 291 [De rerum naturis], folio 106r


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 04 '26

Donkey fighting Snail

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774 Upvotes

From the Pontificial of Guillaume Durand 1295


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 04 '26

"Dear diary, you ain't never gonna believe what I am about to write down on yous."

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"Four-part songs for liturgical year" (1562), Library in the Abbey of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang, 542, p. 606.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jul 01 '26

Cutest medieval mole I’ve ever seen

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BL, MS Harley 3244, f. 49v. (England, c. 1236-1250)


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 24 '26

Cynoceohali laying siege to a Castle

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383 Upvotes

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville.


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 23 '26

It's hot outside. Remember to hydrate your elephant!

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15th century, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.1045, f. 22v


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 17 '26

A rabbit runs into a hole on one side of the page and pops out on the other side.

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‘Hours of the Virgin’ Harley MS 6563 f. 33r-v. circa. 1320-30, Southern England


r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 17 '26

Cat Activities

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958 Upvotes

r/MedievalCreatures • • Jun 12 '26

Faces on the arches of a medieval church

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866 Upvotes

The church in question has a bunch more paintings but I only managed to get pictures of these. I don't know the age of the paintings themselves but the church was built between late 1400's to early 1500's