There isn’t really a great deal one can say about the lesser spotted bat-winged bum-licker
except to be profoundly grateful that it doesn’t want to snog you
Naturally dyed wools. laid and couched work and split stitch
~ by opusanglicanum on February 3, 2014.
Posted in embroidery, laid and couched work, luttrel psalter
Tags: beasts, c14th, embroidery, laid and couched, lutrell psalter, marginalia, medieval, medieval embroidery, natural dye, needlework, split stitch, wool
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I can’t help but wonder what the heck the illuminator was eating/drinking/inhaling (whether by accident or not) to come up with such a little beastie. Was it pointed at a comment that someone made about someone else or something? Was it commentary on some figure of local or greater renown or something that just crept out of a nightmare?
who knows, but he isn’t even the wierdest of the things that lurk in the lutrell.
Super!!
thanks
heavens…! the artist musta been smoking his sour socks…that or horribly mad at someone superior!
you think thats some one he knew?
probably his boss :p
He looks slightly fed up about the whole thing too.
wouldn’t you be if you had to lick you own bum all the time?
The medieval mind is really rather disturbing, isn’t it… Positively bewildering!
disturbing and disturbed