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@erikcats Huh, I do the same with my cat. Do you also make amusing shotgun sounds when you “load” and “shoot” your shotgun cat?“chick-chick… MEOW. chick-chick… MEOW.”

snailfight. book of hours, Metz c. 1295. Metz, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1588, fol. 139v.#medieval #MedievalArt

White #cat. book of hours, France after 1500. Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 654, fol. 5r.#medieval #MedievalArt

Master #Yoda? ‘The Smithfield Decretals’ (Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria), Toulouse ca. 1300, illuminations added in London ca. 1340. British Library, Royal 10 E IV, fol. 30v.#medieval #MedievalArt

#Mermaid. ‘Hours of Yolande of Flanders’, Paris ca. 1353-1363. BL, Yates Thompson 27, fol. 52v.#medieval #MedievalArt

Half-hoofed winged wolf. book of hours, England ca. 1300. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.102, fol. 91v.#medieval #MedievalArt

Finger counting. computus compilation, Lorsch 9th century. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1449, fol. 118v.#medieval #MedievalArt

Resurrection of the dead. Ottheinrich Bible, Regensburg ca. 1430. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 8010, fol. 39v.#medieval #MedievalArt

Initial ’D’. Psalter, Upper Rhine ca. 1260. Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale ms. 54, fol. 60v.#medieval #MedievalArt

#Lion. Historia Plantarum, Lombardy ca. 1395-1400. Roma, Biblioteca Casanatense, Ms. 459, fol. 140v.#medieval #MedievalArt

Wildlife of #Ethiopia. Le secret de l'histoire naturelle, France ca. 1480-1485. BnF, Français 22971, fol. 20r.#medieval #MedievalArt

Siege rabbits. Pontifical of Renaud de Bar, France ca. 1303-1316. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 298, fol. 41r.#medieval #MedievalArt

Firebreather. Bartholomeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum (Occitan version), Toulouse ca. 1350. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 1029, fol. 248v.#medieval #MedievalArt

Conception of Merlin. Histoire de Merlin, France (Poitiers), 1450-1455. BnF, Français 96, fol. 62v.#medieval #MedievalArt

Buttfaced stag. Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305. Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 107, fol. 100v.#medieval #MedievalArt

Holy Mary full of grace, punch that devil in the face. book of hours ('The De Brailes Hours’), Oxford ca. 1240. BL, Add 49999, fol. 40v.#medieval #MedievalArt

Demonic cats on the deathbed. Jean Miélot, La Vie et Miracles de Nostre Dame, Oudenaarde 1456. BnF, Français 9198, fol. 110v.#medieval #MedievalArt

The beast. La Somme le Roi, Normandy 1311. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 6329, fol. 16v.#medieval #MedievalArt

On deathbed with demonic cats. Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, Paris 1396. BnF, Français 312, fol. 334v.#medieval #MedievalArt

Sign of Leo. Bartholomeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum (French translation), Ahun 1480. BnF, Français 9140, fol. 166v.#medieval #MedievalArt