The Books of King Modus and Queen Ratio

I have no idea what's going on here. It's sort of like Game of Thrones as an illuminated manuscript: there's Queen Cersei and Ser Jamie sending Bran out the window. Or maybe the king just doesn't want to hang out with his mother-in-law. Anyway, drawing an illuminated manuscript of the Game of Thrones is a SUPER GREAT IDEA! Sort of like the genius who drew Russian lubeki woodblock prints for famous movies. Sort of like the website "Arrested Westeros" ("Arrested Development + Game of Thrones") but funny.

Really, this is from The Books of King Modus and Queen Ratio, a two volume set, from which BiblioOdyssey posts a number of its beautiful pages (v. large sized if you click through to his Flickr downloads). The full book, in fact, is on line at the Royal Library of Belgium. Written in the 13th century and published in the 14th, the first book (the Book of Infer) is the first treatise in french on hunting and the second book (the Dream of Pestilence), is a poem about morality. King Modus and Queen Ratio, by the way, were not real. They're fictional, though King Modus is evidently very much into hunting boars and stags ... just like King Robert! (This is definitely King Robert.) And there's tournaments and intrigue and townsfolk rioting and a deer with a cross growing it out of its head and a person with a big open-mouthed face growing on his stomach and ravens serving as messengers or something (I'm not sure) and what could be wolves and maybe a little person (okay, I lied about that).