
Little Bear
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī, Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita, Samarkand ca. 1430-1440
BnF, Arabe 5036, fol. 23r

A cartoon by Drew Dernavich, from 2011.

“Martin Schongauer, Versuchung des heiligen Antonius. Kupferstich” in Wilhelm Michel’s Das Teuflische und Groteske in der Kunst [The Diabolical and Grotesque in Art], 1919.

devils
book of hours, Burgundy 15th century
Langres, BM, ms. 4, fol. 144r

dragon encircling the Entry into Jerusalem
Evangeliary, Cambrai ca. 1266
Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 189, fol. 1r