Her findings have been published in the journal Cogent Arts and Humanities. Thorpe believes they were added to the 14th century manuscript a few centuries after it was written. However, there is nothing in the manuscripts themselves that allow researchers to place the drawings in a historical date range with any accuracy. The drawings themselves reveal that the manuscripts were kept in an unsecure location where children could access them. These books had incredible detailing and illustrations on the cover and page margins, and the bindings were painstakingly sewn together by hand. He borrowed the book shortly after its creation and did not return it. But in both periods, marginal illustrations worked more or less the same way: you paid for a certain number of illustrations before the actual writing began. Further research revealed the manuscript most likely fell into the children’s hands years after it was in the possession of Umilis of Gubbio, a Dominican friar. She found the drawings by accident when working on another project in the manuscript database. They avoided the lettered area and kept their work to the open margins, drawing on several different pages. Other drawings include alien or demonic-looking creatures with over-sized heads and long legs, some having horns.Īs the manuscripts are all works including astronomy, astrology, dates, sermons, and the means to calculate days of the week across several centuries, Thorpe believes the children were simply bored with the text and began to add their own touch to the written page. Thorpe believes there was more than one child of different ages involved, as the drawings show different levels of skill a cow-like creature being more representative of the artwork of an older child, while the stylized person it is tethered to is a much more crude drawing, more in tune with the skill level of a 4-year-old. A University of York research fellow, Deborah Thorpe, discovered doodles in the margins of a medieval manuscript and has concluded they are the work of bored children. They were the rich, landed gentry, the warrior class, and the overseers of protection, all rolled into one.
Knights were something like celebrities during the middle ages. Brunetto Latinis Li Livres dou Tresor/Wikimedia Commons.
Book lovers throughout the centuries have encountered similar types of problems when allowing children to handle and learn from their precious works. Here are some of the strangest things found in medieval manuscripts, in the margins or otherwise.
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