![]() ![]() The goal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, archaeology, mythology, religion and history around the globe. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, our view is that there exist countless mysteries, scientific anomalies and surprising artifacts that have yet to be discovered and explained. 87v.)Īt Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. Top image: A grotesque image of an ogre shooting an arrow into another creature’s rear from the Rutland Psalter, c. 236rīullseye! Monkey archer in Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390 Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. Ready, aim, fire! Macclesfield Psalter, England ca. 14rīirdman Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390 Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. King Philip of Macedon looks on as his wife beds a dragon in Les faize d'Alexandre (translation of Historiae Alexandri Magni of Quintus Curtius Rufus), Bruges ca. 1300 – 1325 AD.Ī man puts a trumpet in a horse’s rear. A page (folio) of the Maastricht Book of Hours (BL Stowe MS17), an illuminated manuscript mainly known for its lively depictions of animals and half-animal. Unknown manuscript.įiesty nun takes on a demon in the Book of Hours ('The De Brailes Hours’), Oxford ca. 1310-1324.Ī man smells or blows air into the backside of a monster. 61r)Ī nude bishop chastises a defecating cleric in the Gorleston Psalter, c. 202rĪ sight for sore eyes! Detail of a marginal scene of a man displaying his anus. Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, Saint-Omer c. 100rĪ man playing music out of both ends. Decretum Gratiani with the commentary of Bartolomeo da Brescia, Italy 1340-1345. Beautiful, Decorative, and Sometimes Crude: Illuminated Manuscripts and MarginaliaĪ woman rides of a phallic-shaped monster.Drolleries of the Middle Ages Included Comical Yet Sinister Killer Rabbits and Erotic Art.(Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 107, f. Two headless men do battle in the Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud and Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 106v.)Ī nun appears disgusted at the sight of a man’s bleeding behind from the Romance of Alexander, 1338-1410. (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS. A nun harvests phalluses from a phallus tree in the Roman de la Rose, c. 192rīattle between a knight and a snail as depicted in the margins of Gorleston Psalter. Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre, Bruges 1471-1483. Medieval Manuscripts Are Full of Knights Fighting Snails.Killer Rabbits Terrorized the Pages of Medieval Manuscripts.There are a surprising number of killer rabbits in medieval manuscripts! A killer rabbit in the Smithfield Decretals, c. Ī nude man with his finger in his behind distracts from the more serious illustration of some noble men and women playing chess. ![]() ![]() Add MS 10294/1 f.1dr | Source: The British Library. A king defecates on the heads of two kissing, humanoid creatures. ![]() From penis monsters to naughty nuns, butt trumpets, and murderous beasts, these medieval texts are full of surprises! Manuscripts of the Middle Ages are filled with farting, pooping, fornicating, and battling humans, animals and creatures of all kinds. But equally captivating is the marginalia – the sketches and doodles in the margins of the text – which range from the mundane to the bizarre, obscene and just plain weird. Many medieval manuscripts are works of art with devotional passages written in careful calligraphy, accompanied by vivid illustrations and ornate, decorative borders. ![]()
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