In the pages of medieval psalters, prayer books and other religious texts, a freakshow of strange hybrid creatures, killer rabbits, men riding snails, horses riding men, and animals playing the rebec or psaltery can often be seen cavorting across the margins, seemingly at odds with the reverent texts they are supposed to illustrate.
These strange drawings are called marginalia, and they can often be found lurking at the borders of the gorgeous illuminations that fill the pages of these books:
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