British Library Acquires Five Rare Medieval Manuscripts medievalists.net/2025/06/britis… #medievalmanuscripts - congratulations Medieval Manuscripts

From killer bunny rabbits and griffin knights to jousting snails, the margins of medieval manuscripts are full of all sorts of fantastical creatures. Today's blogpost explores the ferocious fish that fill the pages of a 13th-century illuminated Psalter. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

5 Nov 2000: Pope John-Paul II declares St. Thomas More the patron saint of politicians #otd There's a tough job

Even King Solomon covers his mouth when he coughs 😷 Ethiopia, 15th c. #king #solomon #sword #africanart

I just know bugs rent these out for weddings

The Adoration of the Magi, Pieter Aertsen, c. 1560 (Rijksmuseum) I like especially Mary's copious supply of nappies - not a detail you often see in sacred art!

A glass bead with an eye dating to the Roman era. It was found on (31st October 2025) at the archaeological site at the Cricket Club in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It was found by 11-year-old Verity Hetherington in the SPOIL HEAP. The eye was worn for protection against the evil

Description of Bohemond of Taranto hearing about the beginning of the First Crusade; "In the meantime the mighty Bohemond, during his siege of Amalfi, heard that a great number of Franks had come, and he soon learned how they planned to seize the way to the Holy Sepulchre from

The Florentine Diamond Resurfaces After 100 Years in Hiding nytimes.com/2025/11/06/art… via @NYTimes

The #MakingMonsters party continues in London this week at the mighty Prosthetics Event! Come for the fun Monster Kid chat, then stay to get a book filled with amazing autographs. Hit me up for free merch, while it lasts! #Monsters #MonsterKids #Signing

There's always one!!! 'The Taymouth Hours', England 14th century (British Library, Yates Thompson 13, fol. 18r) British Library

A bit of peer pressure Devil style Scenes from the Life of Job 1480-90 Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne via - Web Gallery of Art wga.hu/html_m/m/maste…

Loving the Hellmouth ❣️

You want to know how important eels were in early medieval Britain. I hear you. Bede says they were very important. And grave goods from a 7th C. burial site in Cambridge include a copper bowl w/ the skeletal remains of three complete eels. Who says you can't take it with you?

Remember, remember, the 28th of November. That's the deadline for applications to co-supervise a collaborative PhD on the dispersal of manuscripts from the Cotton collection. We would love to hear from you. bl.uk/stories/blogs/…

Fantastic news! Was looking for Medieval Manuscripts blog the other day and wasn't able to find.

Auditions to play that "Secret Chord" h/t Leonard Cohen Medieval Manuscripts lansdowne ms 420 fol 12v iiif.bl.uk/uv/?_gl=1*1auv…

Side-eye skepticism lansdowne ms 420 fol 123v Medieval Manuscripts iiif.bl.uk/uv/?_gl=1*1auv…

Hail, noble Marcell Fóti 🪨! I, Sir Ordilot, present a video of my stone, cast in a turtle mold. Alas, I drew it forth too soon, ere it dried, and the turtle’s head fell asunder! Next time, I shall wield patience to spare this innocent stone beast from decapitation. In chivalrous

THE #VAMPIRE RABBIT OF NEWCASTLE is a mysterious grotesque which has perched above the door of the historic Cathedral Buildings for over a hundred years; no one is quite sure why the fanged blood-sucking rabbit was created back in 1901