From a Book of Hours: October

The Tres Riche Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry
c. 1410-16
This illumination represents the month of October. Peasants plow the fields on the banks of the Seine. On the opposite bank is the Louvre, before many centuries of renovations.

The Horseman of Death

From The Tres Riche Heures of the duke of Berry c. 1485-89

Mary Magdalen

This is a little sketch I'm using for an icon I'm making of Mary Magdalen

Anatomical Man

From The Tres Riches Heures of Jean Duc de Berry

Paris, ca. 1410-16

An English Bestiary

ca. 1210 North Midlands, England

The Soul of a Dead Fox Burns in Hell in a Cauldron Stoked by Demons

Poem by Jean Bouchet

Woodcut illustrations by an anonymous Ghent-Bruges artist

1505-10

Goats

Abu Bakhtishu

Manafi al-Hayawan (Uses of Animals)

Persian, 1290-1300

Note: The text explains that goats can fall from very high places and break their fall by landing on their horns!