So did everyone have a good encounter with their rabbits today? 👀
(I'm pretty sure the moral of these manuscript details is "careful what you hunt today, lest you be hunted tomorrow." Either that, or "bring the scribe more beer while they're working, if you don't want them to play out their boredom on the pages of important ecclesiastical documents." 50/50! 🙃)
@MLClark My understanding is those are a type of meme that was popular in the time called “The World Turned upside down” A reference to the chaos of the end times when the powerful, and the powerless are in inverse position.
Yes, these ones are found in a folio of ecclesiastical law documents, so they're especially appropriate for their context. They're definitely of the "topsy turvy" variety of animal marginalia!
SO much easier to hide in plain sight, but... I bet working with all that ink was pretty hard on the fur! :)
My reference to beer was canonical, too, though. Apparently part of these docs was delivered with the following note:
"'The whole thing is finished; give the guy who wrote it a drink."
So it's nice to know labour conditions haven't necessarily worsened over time! Not sure how well therians handle their booze, either, but beer was a fairly watered down affair back then!
@MLClark Those 13th century furries and therians had great cover stories.
Considering why though… well it stands to reason :P