This is howearly modern manuscriptswere meant to look . Especially when you consider that gifs are from the internet eq of the Middle Ages .
Hearts from Le livre du Coeur d’amour épris, a French manuscript from the 15th century
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An illustration from Livre appelé Decameron , aultrement surnommé le Prince Galeot, by Laurant de Premierfait and Giovanni Boccaccio, 15th century
Playing on a lute, from Le livre des échecs amoureux moralisés, by Jacobus Magnus and Evrart de Conty, early 15th century
Fighting people from Hans Talhoffer’s Fechtbuch (Fighting Manual), which was made around 1467
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This disturbing thing from Le Livre des hystoires du Mirouer du monde, 15th century
Dance of the Death, from La Danse macabre historiée, by Guy Marchant, 1486
Butt-licking cat from Book of Hours, Lyon, around 1510
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Avolvellefrom Astronomicum Caesareum, by Peter Apian, 1540
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Dancing Monsters
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Bonus: The masterworks of Scorpion Dagger (James Kerr)
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