
Detail of a marginal painting of a monkey playing bagpipes, from the Breviary of Queen Isabella of Castile, Bruges, c. 1497, Add MS 18851, f. 419v

Detail of a marginal painting of a monkey playing bagpipes, from the Breviary of Queen Isabella of Castile, Bruges, c. 1497, Add MS 18851, f. 419v

Unusual Musical Instruments - Detail of a marginal painting of a rabbit and a dog playing a hurdy-gurdy (?), from the Gorleston Psalter, England (Suffolk?), 1310-1324, Add MS 49622, f. 106v, The British Library

Bear playing bells ( MorganLibrary, MS M. 1004, 15th c. )

La regina di saba. Gottinga, Niedersachsische Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek. Cod. Ms. Philos. 63 fol. 122., 1405. La regina di Saba, simbolo medievale tanto amato dagli alchimisti, potrebbe veramente essere la depositaria del segreto. Antiche…

14th century Italy, Snowballs and snowball fights in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Family | Medieval Tarot Cards | ca. 1450 | card no. 23 | The Morgan Library & Museum

Illumination -- Drolleries on Pinterest | British Library, Copenhagen and 14th Century