How do you make a dragon student angry? You send it to knight school!
Bad jokes aside, our fabulous beasts series continues with this week's feature creature – the dragon. From our 13th century manuscripts to modern day joke books, dragons are running rampant through our collections.
Like this little guy, a favorite of the librarians here, curled around a letter "p" in our illuminated manuscript leaf of the Acts of the Apostles.
Another dragon drawn from a religious text is this take on the story of Moses and the Serpent. Instead of his staff turning into a snake as the story usually goes, here we see Moses leap back in fright from the dragon that has sprung forth instead.
A bit of visual humor here, from the same volume as the pun that opened this post.
And for all the latest information on dragons, try Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology, found in our Closed Collection.
To see more of these dragons, and others, stop in at Special Collections!
