Welcome to today’s #LockdownBestiary which for L focusses on LAMB as signature animal for this time of year: #Passover , spring ( #lambing) and #HolyWeek. To start: a literally locked down lamb as object of the month April from Swabia 1/X https://mos.bezirk-schwaben.de/das-museum/pressemeldungen/fuehrung-zum-objekt-des-monats-april-im-schwaebischen-volkskundemuseum-oberschoenenfeld-backform-fuer-ein-osterlamm/

I’ll start #LockdownBestiary LAMB with examples from my area of work, the #nuntastic world of Northern Germany and hope colleagues will kick in w/ their expertise! Here lambs from the Wichmannsburg Antependium, dancing http://www.inschriften.net/lueneburg-kloester-ebstorf-isenhagen-luene-medingen-walsrode-wienhausen/inschrift/nr/di076-0062.html#content 2/x

#LockdownBestiary letter L: There is a plethora of #nuntastic lambs in the Medingen manuscripts. Here with speech bubble from Victimae paschali laudes @dombib_hi J 29 36r digitised for #PolonskyGerman https://hab.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/en/image-viewer/?manifest=https://iiif.hab.de/object/mss_ed000219/manifest.json

I’ll continue posting more Medingen images over the course of the day for the #LockdownBestiary but thought I might open another can of worms/lambs with images of the apocalypse, perfect for combining with #WoodcutWednesday, here Dürer's take(s) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apokalypse_(D%C3%BCrer) 4/x

An appeal to Victorian specialists among #LockdownBestiary friends: there must be loads of stained glass lambs out there! I'll give you as a starter this meek & mild example from St James's URC Newcastle @URCSynod1 http://www.stjurc.org.uk/  Any more @EnglishHeritage @TORCHOxford?

Just looking through my own twitter timeline, I realised that of course a Victorian #LockdownBestiary stained-glass lamb is very close to home: @StEdmundHall chapel (double points for also being apocalyptic) https://twitter.com/HLaehnemann/status/589428640884088832?s=20