Things that you probably shouldn't put on a scroll

Things that you probably shouldn't put on a scroll, part n+1.

This is from a French book of hours. (MS M.453 fol. 139r). I would highly recommend that you avoid using this image on any scroll to be used in the SCA. Just don't do it. There is no occasion where this image would be appropriate. No service award. No martial award. No A&S award. Nothing. There is a line in the sand: on one side is what is appropriate to be put on a scroll and on the other is a dude birching the backside of another man.

Now, to be fair, the entire page is beautiful. Check it out:

If you, my fellow scribes, enjoy doing this style of artwork, please do so, just exclude the, ah, hanky-panky. I recommend replacing it with the badge of an order or the device of a recipient being awarded Arms. I put the link to the site where one can flip though the entire book, in the first paragraph.

Here's the weird thing. Weirder than a little S&M in a book of hours. Every other page includes an image of a religious nature (angel, priest, saint) or a seasonal nature (farmer harvesting grain, killing a pig, plowing) or a grotesque. Why did this page depart from the normal contents of such a book? Unfortunately, I do not read latin so I cannot tell if the, ah, monkey-business shown is related to the accompanying text. I somehow think that the text isn't about Cain and Abel.