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Medieval illustration of fox carrying duck

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Hare with harp from "The Maastricht Hours’," Liège 14th century, Bodleian Library, Stowe 17, fol. 92v

Five different types of dogs by Arnaldus de Villanova, 1491. The Wellcome Library, CC BY

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Deer-snail #mondaymotivation @BLMedieval Stowe 17 f. 11r

Holidays or not, I can’t sit all day long, contemplating my navel so I took few things with me on the camping trip, including my belowed sewing machine LOL. I haven’t started jet but the big plan is to quilt the Pheasant quilt without usual rush and dedlines. I’m determinate to get quilting into my fingers. Just imagine sitting at your sewing machine in sand dunes, overlooking the sea! But for the interim I started playing with the idea I was brewing for few years but never really had time…

Detail from The Luttrell Psalter, British Library Add MS 42130 (medieval manuscript,1325-1340), f66v

headless people, and a lion playing the violin in the Breviary of Renaud de Bar, France, 1302-1303

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