Ysengrin the Wolf (arch enemy of Reynard) as a bishop, detail from fol. 78r.

Featured on PDR in the collection Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox (13th century)

This motley crew of anthropomorphic animals can be found adorning the lower margins of a finely illuminated "book of hours" produced in late thirteenth-century England and now residing in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Appearing throughout a section relaying the crucification of Christ, these horn-tooting, cymbal-beating, bier-bearing creatures are attending the funeral of Reynard the Fox.

Ysengrin the Wolf (arch enemy of Reynard) as a bishop

Date

13th century

From

Walters Ms. W.102, Book of hours


Underlying Rights

Public Domain Worldwide

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