I miss them too!!😍 getting around Bluesky is slightly odd. Searching for hashtags has helped me find stuff I’m interested in, e.g. #medievalanimals or #trumpsucks. I also click on people who follow people I like.

Romanesque capital, Saint-Germain-des-Prés: snakes or similar creatures arranged like pretzels.

Romanesque capital, Saint-Germain-des-Prés: Samson rending the jaws of the lion (or possibly trying to give his cat a pill).

Romanesque capital, Saint-Germain-des-Prés: mermaids catching fish.

Romanesque capital, Saint-Germain-des-Prés: Daniel in the lions' den, surrounded by very sweet and puzzled lions.

The #Romanesque capitals at Saint-Germain-des-Prés are fabulous. I love the Pretzel-serpents especially! (see Captions).
#MedievalAnimals
@poorlycatdraw.bsky.social

We are trying to find a name for this old dog from 5th century Frisia. Join the contest @friesmuseum.bsky.social
#zooarchaeology #archaeology #medievalanimals @animalhistory.bsky.social @animal-history.bsky.social @animalhistories.bsky.social @middleages4educate.bsky.social

Medieval Updates Medieval Bestiaries: New Approaches, ed. Debra Higgs Strickland (Brill August 2025) https://brill.com/display/title/57410 What could the phoenix, elephant, and spider teach medieval people, and...

📌Parution chez @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
📍Medieval Bestiaries: New Approaches📍
✍️ed. Debra Higgs Strickland
📅 August 2025
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#medievaltwitter #Medievalculture #medievalanimals

Medieval Snail Deer 🌿
I have a feeling this guy is going to find a really special home.
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#felting #feltart #medievalart
#medievalanimals #snail #deer #animalart #miniatureart #needlefelting #originalart #uniquegifts #etsyshop #beauty #handmadegifts #creaturedesign #noai #humanmade

The Battle of Burrowfield begins. Steel clashes, dust flies, and the bravest bunnies rise.

#RabbitWarrior #FantasyBattle #MedievalAnimals #EpicAdventure #BattleBunny #ArmorAndHonor #WarriorRabbit #FurryFury #MythicalClash #KnightBunny

ballena y barco whale and ship

ballena whale

ballena whale muy amenazante very threatening

whale with dog characteristics ballena con toques de perro

Ballenas/Whales: los clásicos monstruos del océano! son todo mandibulas y eso es lo que importa! very terrifying #medievalsky #medievalart #medieval #bestiario #bestiary #ballena #whale #medievalanimals #seamonsters

cerdo just hanging

cerdo smart enough to wear clothes and stand upright, mayve leading the two other pigs

man mounting a pig and... with a head? menacing

pig being hurt? seems like the woman is defending the human below it

Cerdos/Pigs: quite present on average farm life of the artists! como los conejos y otros animales domésticos o "simpáticos", pueden a veces estar leyendo, peleando, o haciendo actividades humanas por comedia #medievalsky #medievalart #medieval #bestiario #bestiary #cerdo #pig #medievalanimals

Lower left-hand corner of a medieval manuscript leaf: folio 20 verso in Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection, manuscript 68.174. At top, above a very deep margin, run 9 lines of Latin text copied in brown ink, the first 3 lines indented to accommodate an enlarged decorative initial ‘E’ rendered in blue and ornamented with fine scrolling pen-work in red. Several threads of pen-work, in red and blue, extend from the initial, a few reaching to the right, over the text, but most descending down the left side of the page into the lower margin. Here, next to the pen-work and drawn in the same red and blue ink, we find 2 critters: at left, a long-necked bird with blue wings and orange feet, a crimson plume gracing his head; at right, a red wyvern—a dragon with wings in lieu of forelegs—with a thick beard and long, pointed tongue. They face each other. The bird, beak agape and eyes round with rage, raises a taloned foot to strike. The wyvern hisses, narrowing its eyes menacingly.

A Dispute? (‘The Cloisters Apocalypse’; Normandy, c.1330)
#MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Critters #MedievalAnimals #Dragon #Wyvern 📚 📜

And just to tie things up here is the final result! #medievalanimals

Detail of a medieval manuscript leaf: folio 56 recto in Cambridge, University Library, manuscript Ff.3.9. The parchment page bears a 2 line Latin heading in red ink, followed by a dozen more lines of Latin in black ink. The red and first 8 black lines have been indented to accommodate a huge painted initial ‘Q’. The counter (or rounded space) of the letter is built up of entwined blue vines against a background of scarlet. Lush leaves of sage green, orange, and pink curl from the ends of the vines. Gambolling amidst the vines are small strange creatures: a green raptor with apricot wings; a rose and tangerine foxlike beast with olive–azure wings, legs, and tail; and a salmon-hued cat or rabbit with orange ears and sage-green face. At right, forming the tail of the ‘Q’, an indigo-coated wolf crouches between the lines of text. Grasping 1 of the cat–rabbit’s hind legs in its jaws, it strives to pull the scrabbling creature out from the vines. Hold on tight, critter!

Decorated initials: notorious site of interspecies struggle since the 11th century. 😱 #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalAnimals #Critters 📜 📚
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Detail of a leaf in a medieval Bible: folio 12 recto in Cambridge, University Library, manuscript Dd.8.12, photographed on a slight angle from the lower left. At right, 24 short lines of Latin copied in black ink with majuscules added in red & blue. To the left of this, the focus of the photo, stretches an illuminattion painted in stylized fashion in full colour and gold leaf. It is structured as a golden band linking a series of roundels, each depicting a day of Creation according to the Book of Genesis. In the topmost and bottommost scenes, God creates the sun and moon, and the creatures of the earth, including humans. Between these, in the only fully visible roundel, a young, long-haired God clad in blue robes creates the creatures of the sea—represented by fish teeming beneath green waves—and of the air—mainly represented by 2 black crows or ravens soaring heavenward (though a trio of pink & white seabirds emerge from the sea below).

“‘God created … every winged bird according to its kind’, by which Genesis 1:21 mainly meant #crows & #ravens, because what other #birds could you want?” — this 13th century artist, apparently

#MedievalManuscripts #corvids #Critters #MedievalAnimals 📜 📚

@theul.bsky.social

Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 3 recto in Cambridge, University Library, manuscript Kk.1.23. Across the very top sprawls a 3 line annotation added by a modern hand in black ink. Below this, the original contents open with 3 lines of Latin copied in alternating red and green ink; following this are 9 lines of Latin copied in black ink. The first 7 black ink lines are indented to accommodate an enlarged decorative initial ‘T’ rendered in black, red, and green ink. The stylized initial takes the form of a demonic creature clad in human garb: a scarlet cape over a grass green tunic, with a scarlet headband. Although he has the body of a man, one of his feet is a ruminant’s hoof; the other, a bird’s foot. His head is that of a goat with long, faintly spiralling horns. Standing upright, he spreads his arms out at shoulder level, grasping a sword in one hand and a panic-stricken rabbit in the other, while sounding the hunting horn protruding from his grinning mouth.

On Thursday, I had the honour of introducing a Girton College student to @theul.bsky.social and giving her a crash-course in handling #MedievalManuscripts. Here’s a highlight from one of them. #Demons #Critters #MedievalAnimals #Hunting 📜 📚

Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 44 verso in Cambridge, Pembroke College manuscript 301. The gold-haloed head of an evangelist peeks up from the lower edge of the image. Above this curve 2 concentric arches linked together by a decorative rosette, all rendered in shiny gold leaf with burgundy, pine, and cobalt paints. In front of the arches, springing across the page, stretches a yellow lion sporting green and red wings and a glittering halo of burnished gold. Rearing up on hind legs, the beast grasps a golden book in its front paws, and throws back its head to sound the long blue trumpet extending from its mouth.

A #Caturday #NotALion in one of the #MedievalManuscripts of Pembroke College, Cambridge (now held at @theul.bsky.social ). #Manuscripts #Critters #MedievalAnimals 📜 📚

Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 50 verso in Girton College, manuscript 1. At left, the edge of a painted border of green, purple, and blue flowers. To the right of this, 6 lines of Latin text copied in black and red ink, with the first 5 lines indented to make space for a miniature, painted in colours and gold, of Saint Margaret bursting from the belly of the dragon which consumed her. Flaxen-haired and haloed, the saint smiles beatifically, clad in a richly cocoa-hued robe and grasping a small gold cross in her hands. Beneath her sprawls the winged and horned dragon. The large scarlet beast grips the edge of the saint’s robe in its mouth and smiles up at her with adoring eyes. Behind the pair, a verdant landscape stretches off into the distance.

At Girton College, Cambridge, #SaintMargaret ’s #dragon has the sweetest little puppy-dog eyes you ever did see… 🥹 #MedievalManuscripts #Saints #MedievalAnimals #Critters #aww 📜 📚

A miniature painted in a medieval manuscript: folio 22 verso in Cambridge, University Library, manuscript Ii.6.2. The rectangular image is surrounded by a border of pink, blue, and gold, surmounted with a turreted arch of pale pink masonry. Within this frame, before a dark background patterned with gold, white, and red, a stony cliff rises from a barren plain. Across the plain charges a knight. Clad in pale, gleaming plate armour graced with a scarlet cross, the knight—Saint George—rides a candy-pink war-horse. Together, horse and rider bear down upon a great dragon, the horse trampling the monster beneath rosy hooves as the knight lances it through the mouth.

A #Medieval #MyLittlePony! Painted in Bruges in the late 14th century, it now lives in Cambridge University Library’s ‘Roberts Hours’.
#MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #pink #horses #Critters #MedievalAnimals #RareBooks 📚 📜