Medieval monsters

You’ve seen SCA scrolls with miniatures, but you’ve never seen anything like THESE before! In the interest of keeping this a family-friendly site, we’re only using images that qua…

The Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Blog is written by curators in the British Library's Department of History and Classics. It publicises all aspects of the Library's work on western manuscripts produced before 1600, including our digitisation and cataloguing projects, exhibitions and publications.

A 16th century drawing of a blemmyae Monsters once lived at the heart of pop culture, albeit during what was arguably the weirdest time to be alive: the Middle Ages. In intrepid, faraway lands you'd find them: neckless men with their faces in their stomachs – known as "blemmyae" – or yet another

BSB Clm 3003 Speculum humanae salvationis (1400-1410)

[f. 168r] The Luttrell Psalter is a book that was commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell in the 14th century. It is best known for its outstanding marginalia, which combines religious events and iconography with scenes of everyday life in medieval times. Apparently they had squirrels as pets back then, which is a bit awesome. [f. 33r] [f. 201r] [f. 164v] There is only one copy of this text in existence, however the British Library recently digitised the manuscript, and you can check it out…

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Sea Monster, an engraving from the Le Moyne gallery in the Exploring Florida collection of multimedia resources for students and teachers.

ArtStation - Rory 'Zin' Jordan

In ancient Greek and Roman legend the Machlyes were Libyan tribe of hermaphrodites or androgynes whose bodies were male on one side and female on the other. The historical tribe known as the Machlyes inhabited the region about Lake Tritonis in north-west Libya. The warlike practices of the young women and long-hair of the men probably gave rise to the legend of androgyny.

When you're socially awkward, those demons are real.

Starting the week like [BSB, Cgm 48, 15th c.]

Sad medieval dragon - Imgur

In their new picture book published by the British Library, Medieval Monsters, medieval historian Damien Kempf and art historian Maria L. Gilbert explore the fantastic, grotesque and exuberant world of monsters in the Middle Ages through the images found in illuminated manuscripts, from dragons and demons to Yoda and hybrid...

Do you know your dragons? Tiles based on dragons and dragon variants: drakes, wyverns, wyrms, voivres, and basilisks from medieval manuscripts: The Liber Floridus, Harley bestiary, and others.

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