Marginal drollery from an antiphonal
A thirteenth-century manuscript marginal drollery, probably from a choir book, made by an unknown illuminator and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Two hybrid creatures with bearded human heads, one pink and one blue with tails, face each other on a pale parchment strip. The painted line work and flat earthy ground offer a designer a model for playful medieval border motifs and interlaced grotesque figures.
