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There’s no way to talk about rabbits without mentioning the ever-popular  medieval attack rabbits.

The following images all come from The Smithfield Decretals, a copy of Pope Gregory IX’s treatise on medieval canon law. This version is  believed to have been created in France in the 13th century, and the illustrations added in England decades later, at a new owner’s request.

Those illustrations include the famous Rabbit War sequence

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some truly incredible birds

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snails doing snail things

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a man fighting a butterfly

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and over 600 other images including sports, monks being pranked, a surprising number of stilts and the least impressed hermit of all time. They’re all available online here at the British Library.

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