Vila Wolf's Dyslexic Folklorist Ranting

the Three Dead

Bible, England ca. 1260

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.51, fol. 2r

lost among the words

Rabanus Maurus, De laudibus sanctae crucis (part of the ‘Mettener Armenbibel’), Metten Abbey 1414-1415

München, BSB, Clm 8201, fol. 68v

tongue twisting

Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072

BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 4v

Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Apocalypse, Flanders 15th century

BnF, Néerlandais 3, fol. 7r

musicians

Queen Mary Psalter, London 1310-1320

British Library, Royal 2 B VII, fol. 194r

Saint Denis thrown to the lions

Vie de saint Denis, Paris 14th century

BnF, Français 13502, fol. 33r

wrestlers

Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340

British Library, Add 42130, fol. 54v

the seven days of creation

Stammheim Missal, Hildesheim ca. 1170

LA, Getty Museum, Ms. 64, fol. 10v

so Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord (Job 1:12, καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ὁ διάβολος παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου)

Job with the catena of Olympiodorus, Byzantium 12th-13th century

Bodleian Library, MS Barocci 201, fol. 15v

bear fight

Gaston Phoebus, Le Livre de la chasse, Paris ca. 1407

NY, Morgan, MS M. 1044, fol. 18v

falling demons

Apocalypse, Belgium ca. 1313

BnF, Français 13096, fol. 36r

archaeopteryx devil

prayerbook, Nuremberg ca. 1500-1520

Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek, Cod.I.3.8.1, fol. 150v

snailcock

book of hours, Bruges ca. 1500

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.427, fol. 171v

hidden owl

Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340

British Library, Add 42130, fol. 52r

Google Earth AD1492 Globe of Martin Behaim, Nuremberg 1492

Paris, BnF, GE A-276

see in Gallica

Whore of Babylon

Apocalypse, Saint-Amand Abbey 9th century

Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 99, fol. 31r

fall of Lucifer

Offices, Italy 1519

San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, HM 1046, fol. 245v