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sharrakor6.bsky.social
Drolleries!!! youtu.be/5s4zzB-NinY?...
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January 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
weirdxmas.bsky.social
"All the children request drolleries..."
"All the children request drolleries..."
January 5, 2026 at 2:29 AM
buglady.bsky.social
I do manuscript illumination (including drolleries/marginalia) all of the time. Let me know if I can help!
December 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
jradd7.bsky.social
Get a snail. Snails are cool. Snails are timeless. 🐌

Nah, but seriously, there's fun art from medieval illuminated manuscripts, the drolleries, that would make good tattoos... And it's all technically open license artwork since it's from the 1200s and shit...
December 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
atomicsidewalk.bsky.social
Studying Hieronymus Bosch lead me down quite the rabbit hole. Eventually I'll get back to gamedev but learning about drolleries will improve my enemy design is too tempting
December 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
birdbohannon.bsky.social
A first attempt at illuminating! Excited for everything I want to do differently next try lol. Finn, for toymg8 on tiktok, who has been getting into performing mandolin recently!
#Illuminatedmanuscript #illustration #drolleries #marginalia #doggo
A medieval style watercolor illustration of a dog playing mandolin surrounded by a honeycomb frame and his name, Finn
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
birdbohannon.bsky.social
The weirder marginalia in Medieval Manuscripts is called "the world turned upside down" and "drolleries". My bf said uncanny valley about my attempt to mimic these goofy drawings of animals playing instruments. But he said it wasn't a bad thing?

What do you think? Silly or too weird?
#illustration
A still life of a watercolor palette and a colored pencil framing an illustration of a dog playing a mandolin.
December 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
pandainsp4ce.com
Bin großer Fan von Drolleries. Da sind die Künstler einfach mal komplett ausgerastet an Kreativität :D .
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
pointyhats.bsky.social
🔮Yasumi
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🌙Age: 69 (for a few years now?)
🔮Birthplace: Dravanian Hinterlands
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🌙Gender: Cis female
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An old hermit lady living in the shroud. Dubious profession, dubious morals, just dubious all around but not a villain. Lived and studied in Sharlayan alongside her lifelong friend & colleague Matoya, then left before the exodus. Pick up any tome at the Noumenon and you’re likely to come across one of her less-than-tasteful drolleries. Some of her research material included void magicks, time magick & golemancy. For reasons. Anyway her house is definitely not giving you attitude and her tinctures are 100% safe and made from organic homegrown ingredients. What are they? None of your business sir.
November 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
tallhobbit.bsky.social
Les Tres Riches Heurs doesn't have marginalia/drolleries, but the illustrations are so pretty.

And I remember it fondly from medieval art history class 25ish years ago.
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
mariaaragon64.bsky.social
Glad you're back. Missed your sarcastic drolleries.
November 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
cmamedieval.bsky.social
Leaf from a Psalter: Initial D: A Fool Rebuked by God https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.55
The decorative marginal outgrowths, or extenders, of this initial include an assortment of drolleries—grotesque, often hybridized little figures that typically engage in amusing and diversionary activities. Drolleries are often shown playing musical instruments. Here one may be seen playing a <em>vielle</em>, an early stringed instrument played with a bow. The profusion of drolleries and whimsical marginalia in illuminated manuscripts, especially psalters, became increasingly popular around 1300, a phenomenon that has been much analyzed by scholars. Probably produced for a pious lay clientele, the margins of these tiny psalters are filled with endlessly varied and often highly animated animals, persons of every occupation (including clerics), hybrids, and monsters. Their function was often satirical and was clearly meant to amuse and give enjoyment. They may have also functioned as a kind of visual cue, enabling a book's user to locate specific pages and texts.
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
garishgoat.bsky.social
Drolleries I made for map on a game project I’ve been working on for a year or so. It feels good to be able to draw digitally again.
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
wellingtonrock.bsky.social
Haahaahaa! Heeheehee! Hoohoohoo! Haahaahaa! Haahaahaa! Haahaahaa! <gasp>
As drolleries go, this is >awfully< dry!
September 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
moochava.bsky.social
I'm seeing memes I remember from the mid-2000s, "the velocirapture," drolleries of that nature
September 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
rigbymel76.bsky.social
Killer bunnies are a recurring motif in medieval illuminated manuscripts. #ArtEncounters #KillerRabbit #KillerBunny #medieval #drolleries #IlluminatedManuscripts #art #drawing #rabbits #bunnies
Not entirely sure of the source for this one, but life is short & the world is crazed so here it is.
Detail of an illuminated manuscript margin featuring a dark grey rabbit wielding an axe
September 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
carinr.bsky.social
Here are a couple of drolleries found while flipping through. I just wish we could zoom in enough to see details and captions of the major images.

The Heidelberg MS can also be downloaded as a single PDF from archive.org/details/Hild...
September 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
mp-amphiboly.bsky.social
As far as medieval marginalia and drolleries go those are pretty awesome... this one still is my favorite for its clear explanation of swordsmanship, or should it be sword-swallowing?
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
rigbymel76.bsky.social
Killer bunnies are a recurring motif in medieval illuminated manuscripts. #ArtEncounters #KillerRabbit #KillerBunny #medieval #drolleries #IlluminatedManuscripts #art #drawing #rabbits #bunnies
This one comes from the Breviary of Renaud de Bar (Winter portion), Metz, France, 1302-03
An illuminated manuscript with drawings in the margin: drawing shows a hound riding on a rabbit and a rabbit riding on a snail battle with shields and lances. High concept!
September 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
rigbymel76.bsky.social
Killer bunnies are a recurring motif in medieval illuminated manuscripts. #ArtEncounters #KillerRabbit #KillerBunny #medieval #drolleries #IlluminatedManuscripts #art #drawing #rabbits #bunnies
This one is from The Gorleston Psalter, East Anglia, England, 1310-24
A knight swings his sword at a rabbit which rears up on its hind legs.
August 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
rigbymel76.bsky.social
Killer bunnies are a recurring motif in medieval illuminated manuscripts. #ArtEncounters #KillerRabbit #KillerBunny #medieval #drolleries #IlluminatedManuscripts #art #drawing #rabbits #bunnies
This image is a detail from the summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud, Metz ca. 1302-1305
Medieval drawing of two grey rabbits in a stone tower with crenellations. The rabbits wield shields and are hurling rocks at invading dogs with shields and swords. Taken from an illuminated manuscript circa early 1300s
August 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
elliamvi.bsky.social
Pray, help me, for I am ensnared in the ceaseless endeavor of painting medieval drolleries.
August 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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A still image with a mossy green background, showcasing clothing items inspired by the Unicorn In Captivity, a 15th century tapestry. A still image with a mossy green background, showcasing clothing items inspired by medieval marginalia, or drolleries, sourced from the 14th and 15th centuries.
July 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
lolagaylec.bsky.social
Word of the Day 07.10.25 -- Drollery (noun | DROH-luh-ree): Something whimsically amusing or funny.

"Drolleries are most commonly associated with medieval manuscripts, specifically from the 13th to the 15th centuries."

Synonyms: comedy, humor, joke, laugh, witticism
July 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
outonthemoors.bsky.social
The nerd in me wants to point out that "drolleries" were the medieval version of cryptids.
Unlike badly-drawn elephants, they were understood to be figments of the imagination.
July 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM