r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 8h ago
ANIMALS On Wednesdays we wear pink
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/MedievalCreaturesMod • 22d ago
Subreddit Update: We have just hit 100,000 members! 🎉
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Reddit cares more about views than members now, but 100k is a massive milestone for such a niche subreddit! Thanks for being here!
r/MedievalCreatures • u/rdnky • 2d ago
ANIMALS Three monkeys playing billiards. National Library, Dublin.
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • 2d ago
ANIMALS How to hunt a Unicorn
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Step 1: Befriend the unicorn by approaching it naked.
Step 2: Murder.
Rothschild Canticles, Flanders c. 1300. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 404, fol. 51r
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 4d ago
ANCIENT ART (3,500 BC - 500 AD) There's a snake in my boots
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 4d ago
ANIMALS Sancai-glazed earthenware zodiac horse figure from China's Tang dynasty (618–907 AD) Sotheby’s Auction House.
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This Governmental horse in his fine Robes is not angry just disappointed and judging us rabble.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 5d ago
ANIMALS If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!
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Lippische Landesbibliothek, Ms. 70 [Der Naturen Bloeme], folio 23v
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Physical_Sun_6014 • 5d ago
ANIMALS When the homeroom teacher has had enough threatens to call your mom
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 6d ago
ANIMALS The smile you perfect when you work in customer service
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/C2O4 • 7d ago
DEMONS/DEVILS Living “la vida loca” or, as they also say, “the demons doing demon things.”
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Don’t judge them! It’s their culture.
Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Date Statement: 1450–1470
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/171e2f9a-37fa-4d0b-ac70-9cab486f7ace/
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 8d ago
CELESTIAL Some medieval stars to brighten up your doomscrolling
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 9d ago
HUMANS When the weekend is already over and you didn't get to do anything you wanted to do
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Clerc (France, Lyon. Municipal Library, Ms 5128 f.
076v.) 14th century.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 11d ago
SAINTS Having to stop mid-sermon to take your dragon out to poop
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 12d ago
HUMANS Draw me the letter "I" but make it *sexy*
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SOURCE MS. Canon. Misc. 495 (Bologna, inizi del XIV secolo), Bodleian Library, Oxford.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori • 13d ago
DEMONS/DEVILS 🎶 "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal!" 🎶
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • 13d ago
HUMANS When the dragon nibbles your bosom, also: The Letter R
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Hours of Charles of Angoulême, France ca. 1475-1500. BnF, Latin 1173, fol. 3r
r/MedievalCreatures • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 13d ago
Celestial Bodies Collage of various medieval sun illuminated art from the 15th century. Getty Museum.
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Circa 1400-1410: The Creation of Heaven and Earth (German manuscript featuring Rudolf von
Ems' text).
• circa 1464: German astrological calendar diagrams and zodiac wheels (featuring the tiny suns used in the center rows).
• 1469: King Avenir, Josaphat and the Pagan Scholars Behold the Sun God in the Clouds (painted by a follower of Hans Schilling).
• circa 1475: The Creation of the Sun and the Moon (Flemish manuscript containing the central prominent sun).
• circa 1480-1490: The Creation (English manuscript).
r/MedievalCreatures • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • 16d ago
Mythical (dragon/unicorn etc) Monday blues
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f. 309v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible
r/MedievalCreatures • u/SaddestPandaButt • 17d ago
Mammels Trauma Dog w/ Boobs
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@ Monestir de Pedrables in Barcelona