Weird things you find in medieval manuscripts.
I was looking through the Luttrell Psalter and found this sexy lady. This is British Library Add MS 42130 f81r and it is not the most unusual grotesque from the manuscript.
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Most of the manuscript contains similar figures They look like LSD induced hallucinations. Was the illuminator just told to go hog-wild and make whatever strange creatures he thought of? Was he smoking hemp and saying, "Dude, dude dude." Only, it was probably a monk, so it would have been in Latin: "Dudus, dudus, dudus. Quid facies puella equo? Et ad aures alas."
Or, perhaps it was something more outlandish?
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