Things I've picked up along the way...

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a squirrel! The marginal illustration of a red squirrel brings some light relief to this rather sombre page, which is dominated by a grim illustration of the flagellation of Christ.  In Britain the red squirrel is an endangered species, as the grey (a native of the USA) has proved more successful. In the middle ages though, the red ruled uncontested. I think this illustration is rather lovely. The illustration is from a fourteenth century Book of Hours of the use of S.-Arnoul-les-Metz. It is now in the collection of the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Image source: Beinecke MS 657. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Image believed to be in the public domain.

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a squirrel! The marginal illustration of a red squirrel brings some light relief to this rather sombre page, which is dominated by a grim illustration of the flagellation of Christ. 

In Britain the red squirrel is an endangered species, as the grey (a native of the USA) has proved more successful. In the middle ages though, the red ruled uncontested. I think this illustration is rather lovely.

The illustration is from a fourteenth century Book of Hours of the use of S.-Arnoul-les-Metz. It is now in the collection of the Beinecke Library at Yale University.

Image source: Beinecke MS 657. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Image believed to be in the public domain.

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