A woman spinning at the great wheel and a woman carding wool, f. 193r. |
Colloquial name(s): The Luttrell Psalter
Official name(s): British Library, Additional MS 42130
Date: 1325-1340 (source); 1320-1340 (source)
Origin: Lincolnshire, N. England
Online fascimile available via: The British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
The Luttrell Psalter was commissioned for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell of Irnham, Lincolnshire (b. 1276, d. 1345). This is indicated by the inscription 'Dns. Galdrifus Louterell me fieri fecit' and its accompanying illustration of Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, his wife Agnes (d. 1340) and his daughter-in-law Beatrice, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Scrope of Masham, all on f. 202v (source).
The Luttrell Psalter is famous for its numerous illustrations of everyday life in rural England in the early 14th Century although it also contains numerous fantastical grotesques.
Basic descriptions of the illustrations are provided by the British Library with the fascimile. The folios containing humans, human-like figures and other items of interest are as follows:
1r | Hybrid grotesque with a man's body from the knees up. |
2r | Hybrid grotesque with a hooded man's head. |
3r | Hybrid grotesque with a hooded man's head. |
4r | Hybrid grotesque pulling its own horns. |
5r | Hybrid grotesque with a veiled woman's head. |
6r | Hybrid grotesque with a deer (?) head. |
7r | Hybrid grotesque with a hooded man's head. |
8r | Hybrid grotesque with a demon's (?) head. |
9r | Hybrid grotesque with long tail. |
10r | Hybrid grotesque with a bearded man's face. |
11r | Dragon-like hybrid grotesque with wings and a foliate tail. |
12r | Hybrid grotesque with a man's head with gilt red deer antlers. |
13r | Historiated initial containing David playing the harp. Below, a woman wearing a hairnet and fillet. Beside, a man playing some sort of bagpipes. Below him, a monkey. Below the woman, a male deer. Bas de page: the Madonna Lacans (Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Christ). |
14v
| Historiated initial containing Jesus, seated. |
15r
| Bas de page: a unicorn, charging. |
15v
| Historiated initial containing a man's head. Below, within the text, a veiled woman. Bas de page: a hybrid grotesque with a man's body from the hips up. |
16r
| At top left, a hybrid grotesque with a bearded man's head. |
16v
| Historiated initial containing a king praying to God. The initial held up by a man in a long tunic, facing away from the reader. |
17r
| At top, partly cropped off, a woman (?) admiring herself in a mirror. |
18r | Historiated initial containing the bust of a king. |
20r | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with a man's upper body, aiming a crossbow. |
20v | Historiated initial containing a seated Jesus, showing his stigmata. |
21v | Bearded, barefoot man carrying a sword. |
22v | Hybrid grotesque with a man's head, wearing a coif. |
23r | Hybrid grotesque with a hooded man's head. |
23v | Hybrid grotesque with a man's head, wearing a hood chaperon-style, playing a pipe and tabor. Another hybrid grotesque with a man's head. Bas de page: an eagle. |
24r | A man playing a very long horn. |
24v | A woman wearing a hairnet, standing on her hands. |
25r | Hybrid grotesque with a man's upper body. Bas de page: a grey goose. |
26r | At top left, man wielding a large knife. Bas de page: two cats. |
27v | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with a hooded man;s head. |
28r | Historiated initial containing the bust of a man. He wears a hood with a large bell at the end of its liripipe. |
29r | Woman (?) with comb and mirror. The mirror's reflection shows a bird. |
30r | Bearded man wrapped in a robe. |
30v | At top left, Saint Catherine, crowned and with her wheel. Bas de page: a hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a hooded woman, spinning. |
31r | A bishop (?), at top right. Bas de page: a fox (Reynard?) with a goose in its mouth. |
31v | Hybrid grotesque with a man's upper body. Bas de page: a naked man and a blue butterfly. |
32r | A pilgrim with staff, scrip and hat, holding an object. His hat and scrip are decorated with the scallop shell of Santiago de Compostella. |
32v | Bas de page: a blue-skinned merman with trident. |
33r | Bas de page: a noble lady wearing a hairnet, wimple and hood, her dress with pendant sleeves. She plays with a pet squirrel. |
34r | Bas de page: two hybrid grotesques: one with a man's hooded head; the other with a man's body but pointed bare feet, wielding a large pair of tongs. |
34v | Bas de page: a hybrid grotesque with a bishop's body from the waist up. |
35r | A hybrid grotesque with a woman's body from the knees up; she wears a hairnet, fillet and veil. Bas de page: a peacock. |
35v | A bearded man with a hat, wrapped in a fur-lined robe. |
36r | Bas de page: a bizarre figure with wild blue hair, wearing what appears to be a skirt and wielding a slingshot. |
36v | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with a bald man's body from the hips up, making a face at a dragonfly. |
37r | Bas de page: Saint Margaret, crowned, standing on a dragon and holding a cross. |
37v
| At top, a balding man. Bas de page: Saint Stephen (?), wearing priests' vestments and being stoned by two men. |
38r | Bas de page: a monkey, 'hawking' with an owl whilst riding a saddled goat. |
38v | Historiated initial containing a man knocking at the door of a gilt building. Below it, a bearded man's face. Bas de page: hybrid grotseque with a man's head and foliate tail. |
39r | Bas de page: Saint Catherine again, crowned, carrying her wheel and a book. |
39v | At top right, hybrid grotesque with a man's head. Bas de page: an armoured knight, holding a lance. |
40r | Historiated initial containing a praying king. On top of it, a man playing a shawm-like instrument. On the right, a man holding a round object. Bas de page: Saint Andrew being crucified on his X-shaped cross by two men. |
40v | Bas de page: a naked man wrapped in a robe, holding up a roundel with the lamb of God (?) on it. |
41r | A mounted man hawking. Bas de page: a crested great helm and a gilt heater shield with a blue-green lion (?) rampant on it. |
41v | Bas de page: Jesus (?) seated, his right hand raised in benediction, his left on a circular object. |
42r | A man, hooded and with pendant sleeves, being eaten by a hybrid grotesque. |
43r | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a woman, wearing a hairnet, wimple and hood and holding a large bell in each hand. |
43v | Mounted man, facing the reader and blowing a horn. Below him, a woman vomits a fox-like hybrid grotesque. Below her, a naked man is swallowed by a hybrid grotesque. Bas de page: Jesus is seated, naked but wrapped in a robe, showing his stigmata. |
44r | Bas de page: Jesus, seated and clothed, displays himself crucified upon the cross, visited by the the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. |
44v | A woman wearing a hairnet and some sort of shawl/veil over her shoulders. At bottom, the Bas de page: the Archangel Gabriel informs the Virgin that she will be carrying the baby Jesus. Overhead flies the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. |
45r | At top right, an archer. Below him, a spearman. Bas de page: a bishop whose crozier is an image of the crucifiction. |
45v | Bas de page: Saint Christopher carries the infant Jesus across the river. |
46r | Bas de page: a crowned man holds two arrows in his left hand and a book in his right hand. |
46v | Historiated initial containing the head of a bearded man. Bas de page: the Archangel Michael slays a dragon with a sword. |
47r | At top, a hybrid grotesque with a hooded man's head. Bas de page: hybrid grotesque wearing a tunic. |
48r | Hybrid grotesque with a hooded man's head. Bas de page: Saint Lawrence (?) - a man in deacons' robes, holding a gridiron. |
48v | Bas de page: woman holding a round box; possibly Mary Magdalene as two of her symbols are an alabaster box and a jar of ointment. |
49r | At top, two hybrid grotesques fight. Each has the upper body of a hooded man and wields a buckler; one has a falchion, the other a sword. Bas de page: a roundel containing the winged lion with a piece of parchment, symbol of Saint Mark the Evangelist. |
49v | Bas de page: a roundel containing a seated, haloed angel holding up a piece of parchment, symbol of Saint Matthew the Evangelist. |
50r | Hybrid grotesque wearing a hood and hat. Below, hybrid grotesque with bearded man's head. Bas de page: a roundel containing a winged ox with a piece of parchment, symbol of Saint Luke the Evangelist. |
50v | Hybrid grotesque with a bearded man's head. Bas de page: a roundel containing an eagle with a piece of parchment, symbol of Saint John the Evangelist. |
51r | Historiated initial containing Jesus (?). At top right, Jesus seated and offering benediction. Bas de page: Saint Thomas Becket is killed at his altar by the four knights; on either side, three hybrid grotesques - two with the upper bodies of men, one hooded, and one with the upper body of a woman (as indicated by her dressed hair). |
51v | At top, two hybrid grotesques - one with the upper body of a man, the other with the head of a man. Bas de page: a nun (possibly Cistercian or Dominican) wearing a white habit and scapular with a black veil and cloak and carrying a crozier. |
52r | Hybrid grotesque wearing a tunic. Another wearing a woman's hood. Bas de page: Saint Eliguis (aka Saint Eloi) in bishops' dress holding a horse's leg with a shoe'd hoof in his left hand and tongs in his right hand. |
52v | Bas de page: Haloed man holding a boat (possibly Saint Brendan or Saint Jude/Thaddeus the Apostle); adjacent, within the foliate border, a hooded man. |
53r | At top right, a hooded man carrying a hooded child on his back, a staff and a paternoster. Below him, a man is falling off his horse. Below him, a hybrid grotesque wearing a fur-lined hood. Bas de page: a haloed woman carrying a cross (possibly Saint Anastasia). |
53v | At top, a hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a hooded man. Bas de page: a man with blue skin and wild hair (indicating "foreignness") hacks at the head of another man (identified by the British Library as John the Baptist) who is leaning out of the door of a castle. |
54r | At top right, a balding man draws a sword. Below him, a naked balding man sits. Below him, a bearded man draws a bow using his feet. Bas de page: a horned man holds up and points to an object - perhaps a portable diptych altar (?) or maybe the yellow two-tables symbol of a Jew (?). |
54v | A man wearing a hood with a bell on its liripipe picks up a goad. Bas de page: a bishop uses tongs to pinch the nose of a grotesque beast / demon; beside him, two men wearing only braies wrestle (?). |
55r | A hunchback man walks with a stick. Bas de page: a man plays an organ whilst another pumps the bellows; next to them, a priest with a crozier stands; at his feet is a donkey (?) with its neck pierced by an arrow. |
55v | At top, a hybrid grotesque with a bearded man's head. Below left, a hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a robe-swathed woman pours water out of a jar. At top right, a hybrid grotesque with a hooded man's head. Bas de page: a tonsured priest with a crozier, wearing gloves. |
56r | Samson fights the lion. Below him, a tonsured or balding man draws a crossbow. Bas de page: a man with a warbow; to his left, a man begins to strike a kneeling man in the neck with a sword. |
56v | At top left, two men, one tonsured or balding. Bas de page: Saint Martin shares his cloak with the beggar; adjacent, a man bends to touch his toes, in front of a stick on the ground. |
57r | At top left, a hybrid grotesque with a man's upper body wields an axe. At top right, a hybrid grotesque with a man's upper body but fish-like fins around his head. Bas de page: a man holding a round box (?). |
57v
| Centre right, a hybrid grotesque with a bearded man's head. Bas de page: haloed man holding a spear; possibly Saint Thomas the Apostle or Longinus (the soldier who pierced Christ's side). |
58r | Within text, a man playing two pipe-like instruments. At right, hybrid grotesque with man's upper body. Bas de page: tonsured priest or monk with white habit, black cloak and crozier. |
58v | Hybrid grotesque with head and legs of a man. Bas de page: man with scholar-esque hat holding tongs. |
59r | Man wearing chaperon, beating two small drums with beaters. Below him, man blowing trumpet. Bas de page: haloed woman holding book; next to her, a sheep with a bell between its horns. |
59v | Top right, hybrid grotesque wearing a fur-lined hood. Top left, a man with a tall hat knocking acorns from a foliate border. Below him, at the bottom of the border, two pigs eat acorns he's knocked down. Bas de page: a haloed woman holding a string of objects; possibly Saint Apollonia with a string of her teeth. |
60r | Top right, a man with pinned-on hose. Below him, a woman threatens her cowering husband with a beating with her distaff. Below them, hybrid grotesque wearing a hood. Bas de page: a seated bishop holds a crozier and an open book. |
60v | Top left, a snake-like hybrid grotesque with a woman's head wearing a hairnet and fillet. Bas de page: a tonsured man in a black habit, showing stigmata, surrounded by birds in trees; below one tree, a seated man in a black habit; below another a wolf-like grotesque; probably Saint Francis of Assisi and his animals. |
61r | At top, hybrid grotesque wearing a hood, now partially cropped. Top right, a veiled woman playing a tambourine. Below her, a hybrid grotesque wearing a visored helm. At left, historiated initial containing a woman with dressed hair, holding an object. Bas de page: a man lets blood from the inner arm of a seated man; adjacent, a kingfisher. |
62r | Bas de page: two men wrestle whilst being carried on the shoulders of two additional men; another man looks on whilst riding a horned ox and carrying a forked stick. |
62v | Two hybrid grotesques wearing men's hoods - one at top, one at bas de page. |
63r | A man catches a bird in a net on a long stick. Bas de page: a veiled woman helps another woman to dress her hair; they have a mirror, comb and box. |
63v | Bas de page: a man holds a buckler and shield; adjacent, a bridled horse leaps. |
64r | Hybrid grotesque with upper body of a woman, holding a spear. Bas de page: two hybrid grotesques, one with the upper body of a bearded man, the other with the upper body of a veiled woman. |
64v | Bas de page: a man with two hounds gets ready to release them to catch a fox hiding in a foliate border. |
65r | Two hybrid grotesques with the upper bodies of men. |
65v | A hybrid grotesque with the body of a man from the knees up, wearing a chaperon. Bas de page: a man wearing only braies, with a monster's head. |
66r | Bas de page: a naked, bearded man, his groin covered with draperies, is speared in the leg by a hybrid grotesque. |
66v | Two hybrid grotesques wearing hoods. Bas de page: a man with a horn and a large axe follows a dog which follows a goose. |
67r | A hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a woman. |
67v | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque wearing a bycocket with a scallop shell on it. |
68r | A man and a woman sit in a foliate border. At right, a woman, facing away from the reader, balances on the shoulders of a hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. Historiated initial containing the head of a veiled woman. Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the head of a bearded, hooded man. |
69r | Hybrid grotesque with two heads, each resembling a man's head wearing a coif. |
69v | A hooded man carrying a large axe and an object. Bas de page: a naked, blue-skinned, bearded man carrying an object is carried on a pole by two men. |
70r | At top, a hybrid grotesque with the head of a veiled woman. Bas de page: a wild man. |
70v | At left, a hooded man on stilts. Bas de page: a mermaid with her comb and mirror; also, a man carrying a pack containing bellows and a staff, with a dog at his heels. |
71r | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque wearing a wing-like cloak. |
72r | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the head of a bearded man. |
73r | Bas de page: a man with a staff, attached via a strap to a prostrate monkey. |
73v | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque wearing a hood. |
74r | Bas de page: a kneeling monk in a black cloak and habit blesses a kneeling nun in a black cloak and veil, white wimple and purple habit. |
74v | Bas de page: two men in shirts and braies thresh wheat with flails. |
75r | Bas de page: haloed man in hairy/fur shirt with staff and pilgrims' scrip; possibly Saint John the Baptist. |
75v | Historiated initial containing King David pointing towards his mouth. Base de page: "the storming of the castle of love" - an allegorical scene depicting knights storming a castle defended by ladies armed with flowers. |
76v | Bas de page: a noble man and woman play backgammon (?), within a garden (?). |
77r | Two hybrid grotesques with men's heads, one wearing a hood. |
78r | A hybrid grotesque with a bearded man's head, wearing a hat. Base de page: another with a man's upper body, drawing a bow without an arrow. |
78v | A hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a woman, wearing a hairnet. Bas de page: a man sharpens a knife on a grindstone turned by two other men. |
79r | A hybrid grotesque wearing a hood, balancing a castle on its head. Bas de page: another wearing a bishop's mitre. |
79v | Historiated initial containing a well dressed man holding his hands up to two men dressed only in shirts, one with a staff. |
80r | Hybrid grotesque with a man's head, wearing a coif. Another with a bridled horse's head. Bas de page: a third with an odd face, wearing a tunic. |
80v | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with a hooded, bearded man's head. |
81r | Hybrid grotesque wearing a dress/long tunic. Historiated initial containing Jesus (?) seated, with a naked man kneeling and praying to him. Bas de page: hybrid grotesque wearing a hood. |
81v | Bas de page: a seated man wearing a circlet, playing a hurdygurdy (?). |
82r | Hybrid grotesque with a woman's head, wearing a dark-blue veil and a crown. Below it, a hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man, carrying a spear. Bas de page: two knights joust; one has blue skin and is being unhorsed; this has been interpreted by some as Richard the Lionheart versus Saladin. |
83r | Bas de page: various hybrid grotesques with human parts. |
83v | Bas de page: a blue-skinned, veiled man seated on a horse spears a hybrid grotesque. |
84r | Bas de page: a man in blue-and-red chequered cloak and mitre holds a hoop up through which a small dog jumps. |
84v | Bas de page: a dog and a cock-pheasant. |
85r | Bas de page: a bishop with crozier and mitre. |
85v | Bas de page: another bishop with crozier and mitre. |
86r | Hybrid grotesque with man's upper body. Historiated initial containing Virgin and Child. Bas de page: the Archangel Gabriel (?) tells Mary (?) of her upcoming pregnancy whilst the Holy Spirit flies overhead in the form of a dove. |
86v | Bas de page: Mary lies in bed and suckles the baby Jesus whilst Joseph and a maid look on; beside the bed lies the ox, ass and a cradle. |
87r | Hybrid grotesque wearing a hood. Bas de page: the Archangel Gabriel tells the shepherds the news of the birth of Jesus. |
87v | Bas de page: the three wise men ask directions of two shepherds. |
88r | Hybrid grotesque wearing cloak/veil with infant. Bas de page: the three kings present their gifts to Jesus, who is held in Mary's arms. |
88v | Bas de page: Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus flee Bethlehem, with Mary riding a donkey astride. |
89r | Historiated initial containing a crowned, haloed man preaching to a crowd. Bas de page: Herod's men takes a naked baby from a woman to kill it with his knife. Two other men converse, one holding a goblet to his lips. |
89v | Hybrid grotesque with man's head. Bas de page: Jesus is presented at the temple (?). |
90r | Bas de page: Jesus enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, riding a donkey; two haloed men carry branches; another man lays his tunic on the ground in Jesus' path; other people throw flowers from the walls of Jerusalem. |
90v | Bas de page: the last supper. |
91r | Hybrid grotesque with the head of a veiled woman. Bas de page: Judas Escariot betrays Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemene. |
91v | Hybrid grotesque with a hooded man's head. Bas de page: Jesus is brought before Pontias Pilot. |
92r | Bas de page: Christ is seated whilst two men bind his eyes. |
92v | Bas de page: Jesus is bound to a post and lashed by two men. |
93r | Hybrid grotesque wearing hood. Bas de page: Jesus carries the cross though the streets of Jerusalem. |
93v | Bas de page: Jesus is nailed to the cross. |
94r | Bas de page: Jesus is crucified. Longinus pierces his side with a spear. Onlookers weep and stare. |
94v | Bas de page: Jesus is taken down from the cross. |
95r | Bas de page: Jesus' shrouded body is laid in a tomb. |
95v | Bas de page: Christ rises from his tomb. |
96r | Bas de page: the Apostles and Mary observe Jesus ascend into Heaven. |
96v | Bas de page: the Apostles and Mary observe the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descend from Heaven. |
97r | Bas de page: a haloed angel speaks to Mary (?). |
97v | Historiated initial containing a haloed man pulling out a seated man's tongue using tongs. Base de page: a naked, haloed woman in a bathtub is approached by another haloed woman holding a towel; possibly Saint Cecilia (?). |
98r | Bas de page: a haloed woman (Mary?) lies in a bed. The Apostles (?) and a maid look on. |
98v | Historiated initial containing a jester with characteristic double-pointed hood and bladder-on-a-stick. Bas de page: haloed woman (Mary?) in bed overseen by an angel holding a baby and the Apostles (?). |
99r | Bas de page: the Apostles (?) carry the Ark of the Covenant (?). |
99v | Bas de page: the Apostles (?) pray as a shrouded body is laid in a tomb. |
100r | Hybrid grotesque with the head of a (widowed?) woman. Bas de page: Mary ascends into Heaven whilst the Apostles marvel at her empty tomb (?). |
100v | Bas de page: Jesus crowns Mary (?). |
101r | Top right: hybrid grotesque wearing a hood. Bas de page: the archangel Michael (standing on a dragon) defeats demons with another angel, whilst a third angel looks on. |
101v | Bas de page: three angels play trumpets whilst a crowd of naked people walk in rows. |
102r | Bas de page: five haloed angels, one with a flail, one with a book, one with a spear, one with a cross and one with a hoop (?). |
102v | Bas de page: four haloed angels, one with a piece of parchment (?), two with candles and one with a thurible (incense censer); at least two of the angels are dressed in clerical clothing. |
103r | Hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. Bas de page: Christ showing his stigmata, surrounded by the four symbols of the Gospels. |
103v | Bas de page: five haloed angels, two in clerical clothing, approach a building or altar; two carry candles, one carries a thurible (incense censer), one carries bowl and object. |
104r | Bas de page: a haloed woman presents a swaddled baby to a haloed angel; adjacent, two haloed men converse. |
104v | Bas de page: three cripples approach a building; adjacent, a woman breastfeeds a swaddled infant whilst being subsumed by water and another woman holding a book stands. |
105r | Bas de page: a man prays to a haloed man whilst two men beat a third man whose hands are tied. |
105v | Bas de page: a child prays to a haloed man whilst a crowned man converses with him; adjacent, two men beat a woman whose hands are tied. |
106r | Bas de page: Saint Bartholemew (?) is brought before a king by two armed men. |
106v | Bas de page: Saint Bartholemew (?) is tied naked to a tree and beaten by two men. |
107r | Bas de page: Saint Bartholemew (?) is tied to the cross by three men. |
107v | Hybrid grotesque wearing a hood. Bas de page: Saint Bartholemew is flayed by three men at the orders of a king. |
108r | Bas de page: the flayed Saint Bartholemew is beheaded by a man with a sword; adjacent, an angel carries his soul to heaven in a cloth. |
108v | Bas de page: a haloed man preaches to cripples. |
112r | Hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a bald man. |
121v | Historiated initial containing a naked king in a river. |
145r | Bas de page: two hybrid grotesques. |
145v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a bearded man. |
147r | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a physician, consulting a jar of urine. |
147v | Bas de page: archers at the butts. |
149r | A hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man, playing a vielle-like instrument. Below it, another hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man, wearing a tall hat. Historiated initial containing a seated king playing a psaltery. |
149v
| Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a naked man. |
150r | Hybrid grotesque with the head of a horned man. Bas de page: pig-based hybrid grotesque. |
150v | Two hybrid grotesques, each with the head of a man. |
151v | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with two heads, each of a hooded man. |
152v | Bas de page: two naked men play the "push someone off a stool" game (yes, this is a real medieval game - you see it a lot in manuscripts!). |
153r | Bas de page: two hybrid grotesques, each with the upper body of a man, fight and smash pots over each other's heads. |
154r | Hybrid grotesque with the head of a hooded man. |
154v | Hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. |
157r | At top right, a dark-skinned man (perhaps supposed to be a Moor) wearing an extravagant headdress and a sash, both signs of "foreignness". Below him, a man in a long tunic; his belt knife sticks out of his fitchet (pocket slit). Below him, a dark-skinned, naked, bearded man holding a club. Bas de page: a cross-legged man holding an object and wearing bellows on his head (yes, really); adjacent, a hooded man holding a spear with a banner on. |
157v | At top left, a naked man is about to be devoured by the Mouth to Hell. Below, a shrouded corpse in a half-open coffin. Bas de page: a man pours a liquid (wine?) into a hanging funnel so that another man who is lying down can drink it. |
158r | At top, a hybrid grotesque wearing a hood. At right, a man points to a candle he holds whilst another man stands bowed, his hands tied behind his back. Bas de page: a man rides a horse that carries a bag (of wheat?); adjacent, a man lifts a bag (of wheat?) from a stooped woman into his windmill whilst his dog stands guard. |
158v | Left, a hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. Below, historiated initial containing a hybrid grotesque with the head of a man and a tonsured man reading from a book. Bas de page: two men stand and one man kneels behind a staff on the ground, whilst looking at an object. |
159r | Top right: a naturalistic snail. Below it, a man on a rearing horse, facing away from the reader, feeds his hawk. Bas de page: two men - one leans over whilst a small bird pulls on his tongue; the other sits cross-legged and holds a candle. |
159v | Left: a man holds aloft an altar (perhaps an Eleanor cross or a similar preaching cross?) at which a man with a staff prays. Bas de page: a horned bull. |
160r | Four men row a boat, which is towed by a rope held by two additional men. Bas de page: a naturalistic snail. |
160v | Top: hybrid grotesque with the head of a balding man. Left: two hybrid grotesques with the heas of a man and a woman embrace and kiss. Below them, a saint/Jesus(?) and a haloed angel heal a naked man who prays whilst lying in bed (?). Bas de page: a griffin. |
161r | Right: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man plays a trumpet with a flag on it. Bas de page: four men bait a chained bear with four dogs. |
161v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a male angel. Bas de page: a sailing ship full of armoured men, defended by a crossbowman and an archer in the fore and aft castle; a look-out with a small trumpet sits in the crowsnest whilst another man plays a trumpet. |
162r | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man, carrying a bizzare tool. Bas de page: a monkey drives a cart drawn by three horses. |
162v | Left: three armoured men strike an unarmoured man with their swords. Below them: a man with objects (crosses marking graves?). Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man. |
163r | Top right: hybrid grotesque wearing a great helm, with wings that mimic a heater shield with the Luttrell arms on. Bas de page: a man rides out hawking. |
163v | Top: two hybrid grotesques, each with the head of a balding man. Bas de page: sheep in a pen including a probable bellwether with a bell tied between its horns; a man tends them (perhaps medicating one?) and a woman milks one whilst two more women carry away milk(?) in a bucket and a jug, carried on their heads. |
164r | Top right: a bat. Bas de page: a centaur draws a bow. |
164v | Bas de page: a walled city; a procession consisting of a man with a pipe and tabor, a man with a shawm-like instrument and five male dancers exit (or perhaps enter), watched by several people in the gatehouse. |
165r | Historiated initial containing Jesus(?) carrying a book and holding his hands in benediction. |
165v | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man wields a sword and a fantastical shield. |
166r | Right: a man wielding a stick with a key attached to it goes to strike a hybrid grotesque. |
166v | Historiate initial containing Jesus(?) blessing a kneeling man. Bas de page: a woman carrying a distaff and spindle feeds her chicken and chicks. |
167r | Top and top right: two hybrid grotesques, each with the head of a man. Below, a man wearing a hood with a bell on the end of its liripipe holds a fool's bladder on a stick. |
167v | Left and bas de page: two hybrid grotesques, each with the head of a man. |
168r | Right: a man rides on the shoulders of a hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. Bas de page: a hybrid grotesque wields a sickle and a fantastical shield. |
168v | Top: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. |
169r | Top left: two intertwined hybrid grotesques, each with the head of a man. Top right: a man wielding a falchion and buckler goes to strike another man. Below them, a man hits a veiled woman (possibly a nun) over the head with a shawm(?). Below them, a man dismembers naked children with a sword. Bas de page: a ram with four horns; a naked man wrapped in some fabric and a hood, with fantastical wing-like appendages. |
169v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. Bas de page: a man waves his hood and a club to scare a hawk away from a goose and goslings. |
170r | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man. Bas de page: two men plough with four oxen. |
170v | Historiated initial containing two men, each playing a trumpet. Bas de page: a man broadcast-sows a cereal crop, likely wheat; a crow attempts to get into his sack of grain whilst his dog scares away another crow. |
171r | Right: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man holds a heater shield with the Luttrell family arms on it. Bas de page: a man harrows with one horse whilst another man scares away crows using a slingshot. |
171v | Top: a hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man attacks its own tail. Historiated initial containing three men singing(?) from a parchment. Bas de page: a man and a woman break clods of earth and/or stones using mallets. |
172r | Bas de page: a man and a woman weed a crop, using a long-handled billhook and a long forked stick each. |
172v | Bas de page: three women reap wheat with sickles whilst a man binds the wheat into a sheaf. |
173r | Bas de page: the other half of the scene on f. 172v - four men carry wheat sheaves and place them in a stook whilst a fifth man with a beard (possibly the reeve) checks and counts them. |
173v | Top: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man and another with the head of a bridled horse, viewed face-on. Bas de page: four men drive and push a cart containing the wheat harvest; it is drawn by three horses. |
174r | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man plays a pair of instruments, perhaps mute cornetts(?). Historiated initial: five clergy sing from a book placed on an eagle-shaped lectern. |
174v | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man, wearing mittens. Top left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a hooded man. Below it, a man wearing a chaperon plays a harp whilst another man plays a trumpet-like instrument. |
175r | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a wimpled queen. Historiated initial containing a hybrid grotesque with the head of a hooded man. Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the head of a bishop. |
175v | Left: hybrid grotesque wearing red braies, with the head of a hooded man. |
176r | Top: hybrid grotesque with a fantastical headdress holds a bell in each hand. Right: a man sings whilst playing a portative organ. Below him, a man plays the bagpipes. Bas de page: a man plays two drums attached to his belt whilst another man plays the simfony. |
176v | Top and top left: two hybrid grotesques, each with the head of a man. Bas de page: a rabbit warren. |
177r | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. |
177v | Historiated initial containing a man praying to God. Adjacent, the head of a man. |
178r | Right: a hawk tends to her chicks in the nest. |
178v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. |
179r | To right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a hooded man. |
179v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a tonsured man. |
180r | Top: two hybrid grotesques, each with the upper body of a man, grab each other's liripipes and fight with swords. Historiated initial: a naked man surrounded by flowers prays to God. Right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a hooded man. |
180v | Top left: hybrid grotesque wearing split mittens. |
181r | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man carries a goat upon his shoulders, piggy-back style. Bas de page: a watermill with fish traps upstream. |
181v | Bas de page: a large, decorated coach containing four crowned noble women is drawn by a horse with rider (and more horses on facing page) and followed by three mounted noble men; one lady has a dog, another a pet squirrel; another dog follows on foot. |
182r | Bas de page: the other half of the scene on f. 181v - four additional horses pull the coach; the second is ridden by a man. |
182v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a hooded man, wearing an upturned footed cauldron on its head. Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the head of a balding man. |
183r | Right: a bearded man wearing a hood and a fantastical hat. |
184r | Right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a hooded man. |
185v | Historiated initial containing Jesus(?) listening to a kneeling man. Bas de page: a hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man playing the bagpipes and the head of a hooded man playing a trumpet. |
186r | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a crowned man. |
186v | Bas de page: a crippled boy or man is carried by another man in a wheelbarrow; a better dressed man opens his purse to give alms. |
187r | Right: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man wearing a cloak. Bas de page: centaur-like hybrid grotesque wearing a great helm and carrying a lance and heater shield rides at a giant boar. |
188r | Right: a man rides on the shoulders of a hybrid grotesque that wears a tunic. |
189r | Right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man rides on the shoulders of another hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. |
189v | Bas de page: a monkey wearing a fur-lined woman's cloak. |
190r | Bas de page: a silver tabby cat plays with a mouse. |
192r | Right: hybrid grotesque wearing a mitre. |
192v | Left: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a woman with fashionable hair; she carries a book. |
193r | Bas de page: a woman spins red thread at a great wheel whilst a seated woman prepares the wool using cards; the round object is often interpreted as a dish or bowl containing three rolags of red wool. |
193v | Bas de page: two men, possibly playing at a game similar to marbles(?). |
194v | Historiated initial containing a hybrid grotesque with the head of a hooded man. |
195v | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a bearded man. |
196r | Top left: hybrid grotesque eats a hooded man. Right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a woman wearing a hood and wimple. |
196v | Bas de page: a man wearing split mittens waves a club at a boy who has climbed into a tree to steal and eat red fruit, possibly cherries. |
197r | Top right: a man wearing a fool's hat with bells on sits on the head of a hybrid grotesque. |
197v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man wearing a fantastical hat. Bas de page: four men, context unclear. |
198r | Bas de page: a man holding a glove in one hand and a rock in the other; adjacent is a standing man and a man leaning over whilst he removes his surcote. |
198v | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. |
199r | Top: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. Top right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a hooded man. Bas de page: a man holding two sticks and another man. |
199v | Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with two men's heads. |
200r | Bas de page: two men adjust what appears to be a hammock. |
201r | Right: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. Bas de page: a man walks behind his horse, which carries a pack over its back. |
201v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man wearing a fantastical hat. |
202v | Bas de page: Geoffrey Luttrell, astride a horse, hands his crested great helm to his wife, Agnes Sutton, who is accompanied by his daughter-in-law, Beatrice le Scrope, who holds his heater shield; Geoffrey Luttrell's surcoat, saddle, helm crest, horse barding, lance pennon and shield all bear his arms and the women are identified by their heraldic surcotes (note, there is much debate about whether these heraldic surcotes were real garments or were only used to identify women in art). |
203r | Historiated initial containing a king conversing with Jesus(?). |
204r | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the head of an unveiled maiden. Bas de page: bees in a skep. |
205r | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a hooded man. Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the head of a bearded king. |
205v | Historiated initial containing three kneeling men praying. |
206v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the heads of two bearded men. Bas de page: a man tends a fire with a long pitch fork whilst another man turns a spit. |
207r | Bas de page: the other half of the scene on f. 206v - a man tends three cauldrons using a strainer and a flesh hook; adjacent, another man chops with two knives at a table and a third man mixes or crushes something in a large pot or pestle. |
207v | Top left: hybrid grotesque wearing a tunic. Bas de page: a man cuts meat with a large knife whilst four men prepare to take food to the table. |
208r | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man. Bas de page: three noble men, two noble ladies and two tonsured clerics eat at a high table backed with the Luttrell arms whilst two other men bring food to them. |
210r | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a bearded man. |
210v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man carrying an axe. |
211r | Bas de page: a hybrid grotesque with two upper bodies of men fights itself. |
211v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with a head resembling a crested knight. Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the head of a hooded woman. |
212r | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a bearded man. Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a naked man. |
214r | Top right: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man, wearing a fantastical hat. Bas de page: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man wearing a hooded cloak. |
214v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man, wearing a fantastical hat. |
215r | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man plays a pipe and tabor whilst another hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man listens. Right: a hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man, wearing a strange hat, accompanied by two hybrid grotesques each with the head of a man. Bas de page: a noble man and noble woman converse whilst, in a foliate border, a man attempts to shoot a bird with an arrow. |
222r | Top left: partially cropped hybrid grotesque with the head of a man, possibly originally wearing a mitre. |
223v | Top left: partially cropped hybrid grotesque with the head of a man. |
237r | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man. |
239v | Bottom left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man. |
248r | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man. |
259v | Left: two hybrid grotesques, each with the head of a man, one wearing a mitre. |
260v | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man wearing a fantastical hat. |
263v | Historiated initial containing two tonsured men reading from a songbook on a lectern. |
266r | Various hybrid grotesques with the heads or upper bodies of men. Bas de page: a red deer hart and hind with unusual colouration. |
273v | Bottom left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man wearing a fantastical hat. |
274r | Top left: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man, playing a citole. Three other hybrid grotesques with the heads of men or women. |
278v | Top: hybrid grotesque with the head of a bearded man. |
296r | Right: a red deer hart, or perhaps a fallow deer buck. |
297r | Bottom left: hybrid grotesque with the head of a man. |
301r | Top left: partially cropped hybrid grotesque with the head of a man. |
306v | Bas de page: a dog and a rabbit(?). |
307v | Left: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man, playing two horns or pipes. |
308v | Top: hybrid grotesque with the upper body of a man, playing the pipe and tabor. |
I've often sat at the BL with the Luttrell and am now trying to do it online. The list of descriptions of the images on two different pages of the BL website doesn't match the one you have here. Did you produce it or where did you find it? Thank you.
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