Скачать или смотреть The quirky illustrations in the margins of medieval books!

From giant snails to mismatched creatures to fighting bunnies, the art in the margins is full of colour, humour and some downright weirdness.

Called marginalia, drolleries, or bas-de-page (literally "bottom of the page"), these funny little pictures were drawn from the vivid imagination of the Monks creating the works. Who knew the middle ages could be so fun!

An overview of the many quirky illustrations found throughout Medieval manuscripts.

00:00 Intro
00:17 Beautiful Books
00:38 Creative Monks
00:58 Dragons and Snail Wars
01:10 Grotesques
01:22 Humour in the dark ages

Full page illustrations of manuscripts shown at 0:23, 0:38 and 0:49 sourced from the Fitz Museum, UK.
www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/illuminated/

Other images sourced from the British Library
www.bl.uk