A bit of medieval manuscript in lovely, clear gothic script. In between one of the lines of text is something that looks a lot like an eel, except it is somewhat furry looking. By medieval marginalia standards, though, it's pretty clearly an eel. It's brown, and slithery, and knows that it's cool as fuck.
Three lines below it is some sort of interlinear beast that looks like a sea cucumber with the head of a stork or heron. It's head it's pointed up towards the eel, with it's long beak reaching, but not quite grabbing, the fish. The eel, for it's part, is shying away from the cucumber-bird's hunger. Which shows good sense, really.
The slug-stork, btw, is one of the ways you know that the eel is an eel. The connection between storks/herons/demiherons/etc. & eels is very well established in medieval English artwork. If you wonder if the thing you're looking at is a snake or an eel, look for a stork.
Also, if the artwork was made in England, it's probably an eel. They LOVED their eels
The minims in the text are lovely, and the whole thing is extremely readable. A beautiful bit of handwriting to accompany a wonderful eel and his bird-friend.
It's Friday! You made it through the week. Go ahead...take an interlinear eel. You deserve it.
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