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Today's marginal #musicians are a couple of garishly coloured dog-headed creatures playing golden fiddles/rebecs.
From a #15thCentury #bookofhours, c1410.
Chantilly, fonds principal, 0064 (1671)
#MarginaliaMonday #ManuscriptMonday #medieval #earlymusic #rebec #marginalia #bowedstrings
November 2, 2026 at 8:13 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusician is a walking set of #bagpipes.
From Jean de Wavrin's Anciennes chroniques d'Angleterre, 1470-1485
BNF Français 75
#marginaliamonday #marginalia #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #bagpipe #bnf #15thCentury #medieval
October 19, 2026 at 7:49 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusicians (one very spotty, and both only partially dressed) are playing some sort of pipe.
They come from the #Kennicott Bible (#Hebrew Bible with David Kimhi's Sefer Mikhl), c1476
#Bodleian ms Kennicott 1
#ManuscriptMonday
#MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic
October 12, 2026 at 7:09 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusicians are a trio of dancing drummers. Also a fiddler, a trumpeter, and King David playing the #harp.
From the #ButePsalter, c1285.
Getty Ms. 46 (92.MK.92)
#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #medievalmusic #medieval #fiddle #trumpet #drum #earlydance
October 5, 2026 at 7:51 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
A marginal musician for #YomKippur:
A trumpeting creature on the first part of the Kol Nidre.
From the Tripartite #Mahzor, #14thCentury.
#Bodleian ms Michael 19
#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #medievalmusic #trumpet #kolnidre
September 21, 2026 at 6:33 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusicians are playing the #trombamarina.
Along with a pair of #elephants, one of them pink. Not playing music, but I liked them.
From a #15thCentury book of hours, c1410.
Chantilly, fonds principal, 0064 (1671)
#MarginaliaMonday
#ManuscriptMonday
#pinkelephant
#earlymusic
September 14, 2026 at 12:33 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
A #marginalmusician (a bagpiping creature) for the month of #September.
From a #15thCentury book of hours, BNF NAL 3115
#MarginaliaMonday
#ManuscriptMonday
#bagpipes #earlymusic
#marginalia #bagpipe
September 7, 2026 at 7:12 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusician is playing far too loudly. The man next to him has his hands over his ears...
From the Hours of Antoine de Crèvecœur, c1462.
University of Leeds, Brotherton Collection, BC MS4
#earlymusic #loudmusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #15thCentury
August 31, 2026 at 8:34 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusician is a #satyr (Pan?) playing the #panpipes.
From an early #16thCentury Latin prayerbook, c1500-1520.
Leeds University Library. Brotherton Collection MS 11

#manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #earlymusic #earlymodern
August 24, 2026 at 9:32 AM
arend.se
An excellent manicule for #MarginaliaMonday!
medmilmedicine.bsky.social Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · Nov 30
An elaborate hand with long, bendy fingers marking parts of the manuscript that were thought to be of importance or interest - 14th century, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 085
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
familiarcraftsman.bsky.social
Have I missed something? Seems like everyone’s doing rabbits this week. Anyway, here’s this.

#animation #marginaliamonday #rabbits
June 29, 2026 at 4:22 PM
familiarcraftsman.bsky.social
Idle

#marginaliamonday #medieval #blender #animation #rabbit
June 22, 2026 at 3:51 PM
familiarcraftsman.bsky.social
#marginaliamonday #medievalmonday
I need you to see what my very talented best friend made for me
A portrait of Familiar Craftsman and his wife with their cat Butter in the style of a medieval manuscript. The frame is adorned with additional illustrations including a dragon, a gnome, a snail with a lance, a peacock, a frog smoking a cigar, a winged phallus, and a daydreaming hare drinking a Negroni
March 30, 2026 at 3:48 PM
familiarcraftsman.bsky.social
Many moons later and I finally got around to painting him (!!!)
#marginaliamonday #miniaturepainting
Right side view of a painted miniature depicting a medieval rabbit smiling with glee at an axe he found. Left side view of a painted miniature depicting a medieval rabbit smiling with glee at an axe he found.
January 12, 2026 at 4:32 PM
rorymaclellan.bsky.social
A monster emerges from a coffin to attack someone in this Welsh translation of the Travels of John de Mandeville.

#marginaliamonday
A monster with a chicken's head with three horns, a bearded human face on its back, leaps out of a coffin to attack a man
February 16, 2026 at 2:44 PM
kpethainou.bsky.social
Here are some musicians playing music in the margins of a manuscript containing music.
I can hear them.
Can you?

#marginaliamonday #medievalsky
May 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
rhiggitt.bsky.social
Personal favourites are #MarginaliaMonday, #ThinSectionTuesday and #FossilFriday. There is, of course, also #Caturday. What should I look out for on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday?
May 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusician is playing the #lute. Possibly managing to wake the dead?
From the Hours of Charles V, c1500.
BNE VITR/24/3

#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #iconography #earlymodern
August 3, 2026 at 9:54 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusician is a #cat (I think) playing the #trumpet. Drawn by Jean Pucelle, in the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, c1324-28.
@metmuseum.org

#marginalia
#ManuscriptMonday
#MarginaliaMonday
#earlymusic
July 27, 2026 at 9:39 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's marginal musicians are a selection of #bagpipers drawn by Jean Pucelle, in the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, c1324-28.
@metmuseum.org
#MarginaliaMonday
#marginalia
#ManuscriptMonday #earlymusic #medievalmusic #medieval #bagpipe
medieval bagpiper
July 20, 2026 at 9:32 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusicians are a both hybrid creatures (one part #fool) playing #bagpipe and #tabor.
From a #15thCentury book of hours
BNF NAL 3115
#ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #iconography #jester
July 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusician is another musical #dragon. Playing the #shawm this time.
From a #15thCentury #bookofhours.
University of Leeds, Brotherton Collection, MS1, c1424
#marginaliamonday #ManuscriptMonday
#earlymusic #wyvern
July 6, 2026 at 11:35 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusicians are #dragons!
I think they are playing something like a #cittern or #citole, but am not sure.
From a #15thCentury book of hours.
Morgan M358 c1447

#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #dragon
June 29, 2026 at 9:49 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusicians are playing the hunting horn.
Sketches in an unfinished #15thcentury #bookofhours.
Morgan Library M358, c1447
#earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday
June 15, 2026 at 7:30 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusicians are a bagpiping #ape sitting on a drum, a trumpeter, and a couple of dancing apes.
From a #15thCentury manuscript of #Froissart's Chronicle, BNF Fr 2643
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday
June 8, 2026 at 10:42 AM