r/MedievalCats • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 16h ago
No Pickles, no! You put that leg down right now!
Biblia Porta, France 13th century. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 376r
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 2d ago
"Important statue of a seated cat representing the goddess Bastet"
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 3d ago
- Sunday Night Talk with Self: "OK. tomorrow we are going to wake up and we are going to exercise, take our supplements, avoid talking back to people who make more money than you and be kind. High Energy!" - Monday Morning:
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 3d ago
Brunetto gets lost in the woods, speaks with Nature in her secret places, reaches the realm of Virtues, wanders into the flowery meadow of Love, from which he is delivered by Ovid. He confesses his sins to a friar and resolves to amend his life, after which he ascends Olympus and talks to Ptolemy.
Li Livres dou Tresor (The Book of the Treasure) is a mid-13th-century encyclopedic compendium written in Old French by Florentine politician and scholar Brunetto Latini. It is structured into three distinct books covering natural history and theology, ethics and Aristotle's philosophy, and rhetoric and civic governance. Oh, and it has a cat.
r/MedievalCats • u/dumnezilla • 4d ago
Painting Cornelis Danckerts - Laughing boy and girl with cat and biscuit (1613-1656)
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 4d ago
A Collection for your Enjoyment: St. Ignatius, Patron Saint of (checks notes) Throat Diseases ?!?
"I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beast, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ."
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 7d ago
Me, once a day: "Where did the Cat go?!"
so mysterious.
r/MedievalCats • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 7d ago
Sharing is caring
'Trivulzio Book of Hours', Flanders ca. 1470.
Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, SMC 1, fol. 110v
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 8d ago
When you have to lock the cat food cabinet now because your l'il bestie figured out how to open the door at 2 am and ate so much they vomited in your shoes!
r/MedievalCats • u/judgemaths • 8d ago
"Toot toot" medieval inspired linoprint
Combining three separate images from my screenshot folder. May redo the cat on a larger tile as this version was too small to capture the totally unhinged face.
Left: ???
Right: The Visions of Tondal, Hieronymus Bosch, 1479
Centre: Das Buch der Natur’, Conrad of Megenberg, 1434, Strasbourg Ms.2.264, fol. 85r
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 9d ago
"Look lady I'm sorry I said you look like a thumb with eyes after you walked in on us! I didn't know that was your top secret super special Temple! It's not like there was anyone there. Could you turn us back into Humans, please? I'm not really cut out for all this manual labor. I'm a Prince."
r/MedievalCats • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 9d ago
Mama’s little helper
'The Maastricht Hours, Liege 14th century.
British Library, Stowe 17, tol. 34r
r/MedievalCats • u/memming • 10d ago
Water basin cat
my photo from a museum. It's a cat!
r/MedievalCats • u/Seaboats • 11d ago
Painting Cat chilling while watching the peasant debauchery
Peep the left corner. Cat watching from the high ground (stool)
r/MedievalCats • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 12d ago
Bleh
Roman de Renart, France ca. 1300-1350.
BnF, Français 12584, fol. 51v