Are these the dirtiest manuscript doodles of the Middle Ages?

We ’ve antecedently talk about how knightly holograph writers used the allowance of documentsto gripe and sketch . And indeed , artists sometimes used the margins to total off-color levity to the text .

mediaeval monks complained about their Job in the margins of ancient ms

The above manuscript ( circa 1350 , from Northern France or Belgium ) depict Jacques de Longuyon ’s verse form “ Vows of the Peacock . ” Outside this finical panel lies a cheeky trespasser . Asthe Morgan Libraryexplains of this prospect :

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conniption , disconcerting Chess Game of Fesonas and Cassiel the Baudrain — Cassamus , standing between Fesonas and Cassiel the Baudrain play Bromus secalinus , raises shock absorber to upset the board . Flanking them are two women ( including , possibly , Edeas ) and three man , one with steel [ … ] In left margin , nude world moons figures in the miniature .

Of course , there ’s this manuscript artwork at left — also from 1350s Belgium / Northern France and de Longuyon ’s same poem — which depictsa man play the trumpet through his anus . So there is some historical precedent to the rectal fanfare fromMonty Python and the Holy Grail .

( And to all you medievalists out there , what are your favorite raunchy margin scribbles ? )

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