Creatures

From <n>Cheese – Searching For a Taste of Place</n>. Photo by <n>Eamon Studd</n>.

An illustration of <n>Sagittarius</n> from the <n>Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry</n>.

Illumination of the zodiac sign Cancer from the manuscript <n>De Sphaera</n>, c. 1470.

Illustration of <n>Aries</n> from a <n>Book of Hours</n> (ca. 1410). Courtesy of <n>The Morgan Library & Museum</n>.

A 16th-century <n>Persian miniature</n> of a <n>dervish</n> and the <n>Simorgh</n> from <n>Attar of Nishapur</n>'s poem.

Illustration from <n>Le Livre du Ciel et du Monde</n> by <n>Nicole Oresme</n>, 1377.

A volvelle from a Geomancy Almanac, c. 1450-1460, by the astrologer <n>Thomas de Pizan</n>.

Detail of the Agnus Dei from the <n>Book of Hours, M.256 fol. 213r</n>, an illuminated manuscript from c. 1420.

A depiction of Libra from the <n>Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry</n>, created between 1412–1416.

<n>Anatomical Man</n> from <n>Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry</n> by the <n>Limbourg brothers</n>, c. 1412-16.

Illustration of <n>Capricorn</n> from a book of hours, ca. 1470. In the collection of <n>The Morgan Library and Museum</n>.

An illustration of a <n>Bonnacon</n> from a bestiary, c. 1250.

An illustration of the zodiac sign <n>Leo</n> from the <n>Book of hours (MS G.14)</n>.