Category:Drolleries
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English: Drolleries (or drollery), often called a grotesque, are decorative thumbnail images in the margins of Illuminated manuscripts, most popular from about 1250 through the 15th century, though found earlier and later. The most common types of drollery images appear as mixed creatures, either between different animals, or between animals and human beings, or even between animals and plants or inorganic things. Examples include cocks with human heads, dogs carrying human masks, archers winding out of a fish’s mouth, bird-like dragons with an elephant’s head on the back. Often they have a thematic connection with the subject of the text of the page, and larger miniatures, and they usually form part of a wider scheme of decorated margins, though some are effectively doodles added later.
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This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Media in category "Drolleries"
The following 75 files are in this category, out of 75 total.
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Two knights Jousting - Luttrell Psalter (c.1325-1335), f.82 - BL Add MS 42130.jpg 1,233 × 1,855; 970 KB
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A woman defends her castle.jpg 766 × 379; 67 KB
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Beheading rabbit.jpg 350 × 286; 98 KB
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BM-Metz MS1588 0112 copie.jpg 452 × 520; 73 KB
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BM-Metz MS1588 0112.jpg 500 × 589; 114 KB
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BM-Metz MS1588 0378 détail.jpg 624 × 1,038; 170 KB
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Breviaire Renaud de Bar grylle chevalier-poisson.jpg 503 × 277; 81 KB
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Detail of p 414 of the Hours of Charles the Bold.jpg 837 × 799; 321 KB
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Drollery-detail-jester-centaur.jpg 1,485 × 1,775; 673 KB
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Ellesmere drollery1.jpg 591 × 281; 121 KB
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Ellesmere drollery2.jpg 591 × 233; 100 KB
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Engelbert of Nassau Hours - Bodleian Lib Douce219 f141r (detail).jpeg 1,536 × 1,015; 324 KB
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Fourteenth century windmill.png 654 × 385; 287 KB
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French - Catching Butterflies - Walters W10927V - Detail A.jpg 1,800 × 1,736; 443 KB
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Fuchs.margin (MMW10F50 f6r) detail.jpg 250 × 321; 31 KB
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Gleb Svyatoslavovich's gospels (14th c.) - letter М.gif 167 × 168; 4 KB
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Gospels (14th c.) - letter Л.gif 134 × 168; 4 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 108r - grotesque-2.jpg 468 × 842; 109 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 108r - grotesque.jpg 452 × 594; 72 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 119r - grotesque.jpg 500 × 1,058; 164 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 120r - grotesque.jpg 566 × 1,196; 244 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 121v - grotesque.jpg 456 × 878; 124 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 122r - grotesque.jpg 570 × 844; 152 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 12r - grotesque-2.jpg 496 × 516; 68 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 12r - grotesque.jpg 443 × 609; 75 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 12v - grotesque.jpg 480 × 774; 88 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 13r - grotesque.jpg 452 × 812; 100 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 13v - grotesque-2.jpg 480 × 658; 75 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 13v - grotesque.jpg 436 × 952; 101 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 14r - grotesque.jpg 454 × 808; 96 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 21r - grotesque.jpg 576 × 934; 150 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 28v - grotesque.jpg 490 × 1,050; 146 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 37v - grotesque-2.jpg 572 × 832; 140 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 37v - grotesque.jpg 572 × 580; 101 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 50v - grotesque.jpg 456 × 726; 89 KB
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Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry Fol. 9r - grotesque.jpg 598 × 876; 167 KB
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Grotesque Luttrell Psalter f. 27r detail.png 371 × 358; 209 KB
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HowardPsalterFol033vHistortiatedInitial.jpg 827 × 1,313; 491 KB
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Initial C- A Priest Celebrating Mass - Google Art Project.jpg 3,005 × 4,657; 5.11 MB
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IRHT 096653-p.jpg 188 × 197; 13 KB
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IRHT 149593-p.jpg 368 × 544; 43 KB
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Jean (und Werkstatt) Pucelles 001.jpg 1,546 × 2,285; 1.23 MB
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Kephalophoroi.jpg 800 × 542; 112 KB
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Lutin Abbaye Saint-Pierre (Senones, Vosges).jpg 1,920 × 951; 802 KB
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Luttrell Psalter balloon.png 335 × 289; 162 KB
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Luttrell Psalter fol 70v The pedlar and the mermaid.jpg 1,547 × 1,152; 633 KB
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Luttrell Psalter, Add MS 42130, f. 200r (Ausschnitt 01).png 1,886 × 1,367; 5.46 MB
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Marginalia en biblia del siglo XIII.jpg 586 × 419; 58 KB
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Marginalia en Roman de la Rose.jpg 586 × 432; 150 KB
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Marginalia Rutland Psalter.jpg 586 × 320; 104 KB
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Medieval rabbits (7).jpg 564 × 428; 55 KB
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Meyers b5 s0154 b1.png 381 × 212; 17 KB
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Pagina uit een epistelboek cambrai, 1266.jpg 1,001 × 1,500; 409 KB
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Pagina uit een evangeliarium Cambrai 1270 1280.jpg 988 × 1,499; 450 KB
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Piers plowman drolleries.gif 294 × 440; 93 KB
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Psałterz florianski1.jpg 1,640 × 2,252; 1.58 MB
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Queen Mary Psalter centaur playing citole.jpg 502 × 450; 100 KB
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Queen Mary Psalter grotesques playing citole and horn.jpg 1,500 × 1,083; 492 KB
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Rabbit's Revenge Calmness in the Quiet.jpg 576 × 343; 87 KB
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Ravenelle Hours, detail 76r.jpg 1,230 × 580; 200 KB
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RichardSaladin.jpg 742 × 271; 69 KB
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Romance alexander oxford 81v hares 1.jpg 4,236 × 2,066; 5.45 MB
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Romance alexander oxford 81v hares 2.jpg 564 × 868; 242 KB
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Royal MS 10 E IV fol 49v Reynard the Fox preaching to geese.png 1,509 × 748; 1.83 MB
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Speculum Doctrinale Ter Doest.jpg 1,461 × 1,500; 685 KB
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St. Johannes (Kitzingen) 21.JPG 3,811 × 2,368; 2.72 MB
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St. Johannes (Kitzingen) 22.JPG 3,223 × 2,036; 1.7 MB
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Stundenbuch der Maria von Burgund Wien cod. 1857 Steinbock mit Drolerie Hinterleib.jpg 1,057 × 1,593; 653 KB
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The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France MET DP233784.jpg 2,816 × 4,000; 2.56 MB
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Yoda medieval (17232349756).jpg 700 × 350; 201 KB
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