Declaring today #FoxyFriday because the latest book in the @UniWalesPress / @UChicagoPress Medieval Animals series arrived in the post today: Introducing the #Medieval #Fox!
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Four of the deadliest snails in medieval art:

1) Battle in the Margins, from the Gorleston Psalter, England (Suffolk), c. 1310-1324.
2) Angers - BM - SA 3390 f.089, 1493.
3) Brunetto Latini's Li Livres dou Tresor, France (Picardy), c. 1315-1325
4) Smithfield Decretals, southern France with marginal scenes added in England (London), (c. 1300-40).

For more information: https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/09/knight-v-snail.html

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Four of the most savage of rabbits in medieval art:

1) The Smithfield Decretals (1300).
2) Paris, Bibl. de la Sorbonne, ms. 0121, f. 023.
3) Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, France (c. 1294-97).
4) Gorleston Psalter (14th century).

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Some birds from Horae ad usum Rotomagensem (c. 1460-70).

📷 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013036z/f126.planchecontact

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Jazzy polka dot animals in Medieval art .

(And Happy New Year btw!)

1) The Luttrell Psalter, British Library Add MS 42130 (c. 1325-40).
2) The panther as a heraldic supporter (England, c. 1600-1609): Harley MS 6156, f. 24r.
3) Book of Hours
France, Paris, c. 1420-25
MS M.1004 fol. 151v.
4) The Aberdeen Bestiary, fol. 8R (c. 12th Century).

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Like #MedievalCats, #MedievalOwls were, from time to time, somewhat alarming. Though often associated with wisdom, they were also regarded as bad omens, associated with darkness, violence, and mourning.

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