Needs More Naked (Mmm… Marginalia #91)

This is the most hilarious blog on medieval manuscripts I have ever read.

I know I probably come off like some sort of pervazoid,* what with all the naked snail-riding,**tree-nesting genitalia, and the rest of the medieval porn lying around the place.*** But it’s hardly my fault. I start an innocent line of research, and there it is, staring me in the face. Like tonight, I was working on a post about medieval and modern framing conventions.**** In need of a fresh image of a blemmyae, I started poking around in the library catalogs, until I stumbled across this:

Oh, sure, it’s just a random naked dude cold chilling in the upper margin…