A photograph of a character in a play. A youngish man with neat hair, wearing a dark blue boiler suit with brown boots and a tool belt, in which a bundle of papers is tucked. He's got his hands either side of his chest and is smiling brightly.

Snout/Starveling: what about SCARY LION?🦁 #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
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Bottom (Marc Wootton), here in the 2011 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Nancy Meckler, has a solution for everything, even a SCARY LION! be not afeard, laydeez, this is #notalion. Sorted.

Definitely a prime #NotALion

#NotALion was the hashtag for badly-drawn lions on Old Twitter.

Detail of Winged Lion of St Mark with a book and a double printed woodcut head in red and black.

Full Book of Common title page with red letter printing and embellishing of heads in the border also in red.

Beautiful Booke

#Caturday #NotALion
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social 1634 Book of Common Prayer (Case C 8726 .634) #COE #Episcopalian

There used to be a great #NotALion hashtag on the bad site, for unconvincing mediaeval depictions. I think this maybe-dog falls into that category.

On today's Moby-Dick chapters:

1. My inner bibliographer is always happy to get to the chapter with the reference to Aldus Manutius and his dolphin-and-anchor printer's mark (but a dolphin is not a whale, Ishmael!).

2. RIP Herman Melville, you would have loved the #NotALion hashtag. 🐋

The illustrative programme is even more interesting and complex than we thought. We start with the Labors and Zodiac in the calendar (which is very much use of Paris). This is July from the collection @grinnellcollege.bsky.social Museum of Art. JUST LOOK AT THAT #NOTALION!:

Coat of arms with a griffon and a lion. From Newberry Library Inc. 1082.

What day is it again?
#NotALion #Caturday

Set of metal plaques, beasts of the evangelists and above them a stripy semicircle ("clouds") with a pigeon head down from it with tiny flailing feet

Is there an equivalent to #NotALion for plummeting pigeons/holy spirits? This one is especially hurtling.

The lid of a wooden cup, carved with what is (probably) supposed to be a lion, but with such skinny legs it looks kind of monkey-like. The mouth is full of teeth and a long happy toungue.

I have excellent colleagues who send me great #notalion 😁 #museumlife

A thread for #NotALion fans!

I love the #NotaLion hashtag. A happy place to browse through. Thanks for this contribution.

Woodcut detail of gate to Milan, with browned doodle of a winged lion over the arch.

Wider image of lion on gate.

Woodcut of the city of Milan, with a lion drawn in over the gate.

What's the Lion of St. Mark doing in MILAN?!

Someone doodled the famous winged feline symbol of Venice onto Milan, and I want to know why! There are pen and ink additions throughout the city woodcuts as well as some wacky collage elements...
#Caturday #NotALion
#NewberryLibrary
#marginalia
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Three wacky lions in a shield.

Ornate title page from a 1512 book with red and black printing, a large shield-studded golden fleece, and enthroned holy Roman emperor Max I on top.

Not Just the Fleece that's Golden

#Caturday #NotALion #LionKings #NewberryLibrary (Greenlee 5100 G82 1512)

That's outstanding in concept. Presumably you know the #notalion hashtag? Not exclusively populated by Jerome and his companion but plenty there.

Wings

#medievalsky #notalion

@gallicabnf.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social Français 12323, f. 90v

Almost as good as the lion in the Echternach Gospels #notalion

Open page of Irish Gospels of St Gall, showing the beginning of Mark

Close up of the bottom left hand evangelist symbol of a lion

And this Very Scary Lion from the Irish Gospels of St Gall #notalion

That's definitely a #NotALion

Regal lion made of curling lines as if drawn, bit printed in relief. Same book as yesterday.

Why, Hello There

#Caturday #NewberryLibrary (Case B 0 .28 again!)
#NotALion #CalligraphyCat

Fancy bordered woodcut with Jerome pulling the thorn from the lion's paw.

Aghast lion at left witnessing astabbing and a cudgeling.

Lion near people coming out of graves.

That Lion has SEEN Things

🦁🦁🦁 15th c. Jerome's Epistles at #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 5675) with SO MANY woodcuts of him posing with his lion. 20? 30? I lost track ... At least they finally showed his domestication via thorn removal (on the last page)! #Caturday #NotALion #Woodcuts 1/?

New term to me, but it's so perfect for this domesticated #NotALion! I'll show more of this fine feline on Saturday, he's in Jerome's entire biographical woodcut cycle in this book!

#NotALion (Btw the guy with the halo is St Jerome!)

#notalion

Maybe #notabeaver ought to be a hashtag, along with #notalion ?

Not Sure How Much Writing I'll Get Done Today...

#Caturday #NotALion #NewberryLibrary (Luxury Facsimile of Anne of Brittany's Hours)

lower half of the opening page of a prayer book in Middle Dutch with a border showing an owl and a lion-like creature among floral ornaments

Screenshot of the catalogue entry for the prayer book showing the first opening and thumbnails of other manuscripts

behold, the owl and the … #notalion! Looking through the holdings of Groningen library in advance of going there for the Old Frisian summerschool this year. dbc.rug.nl/digital/coll...

What a cute #NotALion !

This is a spectacular #notalion @mcegillion.bsky.social

Shield with half a rampant lion at the top, hand colored, bottom blank

Full yellow colored rampant lion on black shield

Two yellow colored rampant lion on black shields, other two quarters Bavarian blue and white checkerboard

Three black lions on a yellow shield, facing viewer and sticking out their tongues

And a (.5), 1, 2, 3...

Lioncore tournament shields were all the rage in 1561 Germany!
#Caturday #NotALion #Heraldry

Hand-colored woodcut book at #NewberryLibrary: i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

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