Fantastic medieval manuscripts — like the ones I read when...

Fantastic medieval manuscripts — like the ones I read when I was writing the medieval historical novel SINFUL FOLK 

PHOTOS VIA:

uispeccoll: By request for pesquetet who wanted images of medieval animals (particularly ones that do not reflect reality).  

Our medieval manuscripts do not have as many figures so I am going to present you with our giant, wonderful, and odd manuscript Antiphonal from 1720 which is our best source of strange and wonderful creatures not reflecting reality.  And sometimes smoking pipes.

Antiphonarium. Vel. (1720), 55 ff. (63 x 46 cm.). Written for a Spanish convent. Modern vellum binding (De Ricci 10)