Seven Albani Portraits by Giovanni Cariani, 1519.A red squirrel, book of hours (PML M.250, fol.A squirrel eating a nut by a thistle flower, Grandes Heures of Anne de Bretagne (BNF Latin 9474, fol.Roundel with a squirrel eating a nut, 16th century.A squirrel next to a kneeling lady, a book of hours (PML M.131, fol.Detail from the Monforte Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, c.Trapping squirrels, Livres du roy Modus et de la royne Racio (PML M.820, fol.A wild man spears a squirrel, book of hours (MMW 10 F 50, fol.Squirrels, Der Naturen Bloeme (KB 76 E 4, fol.50r and 149v, book of hours (PML M.80), c. A squirrel chained to a hutch, the Cauchon Hours, mid-15th century.Squirrel wearing collar with lead attached to ring on block on which the squirrel is seated, book of hours (PML M.1031, fol.18v, 35v, and 49r, the Hours of Charlotte of Savoy (PML M.1004), c.
Baltildis with a pet squirrel by its hutch, the Sherborne Missal (British Library Add.
A red squirrel, book of hours (PML M.919, fol. A gold ring (British Museum AF.1077) with a woman and a leashed squirrel inscribed on the interior, 15th century. A squirrel with long, pointy ears, book of hours (Douce 62, fol. A squirrel, siddur (British Library Oriental 2736, fol. A squirrel chained to a hutch, book of hours (Lat. Squirrels, Der Naturen Bloeme (KB KA 16, fol. 129r and 149r of the Romance of Alexander (Bodley 264), c. A youth aims his bow at a squirrel in a tree, the Taymouth Hours (British Library Yates Thompson 13, fol. 181v), the Luttrell Psalter (British Library Add. 33r) and a royal lady in a carriage with her pet squirrel (fol. A lady with a pet squirrel wearing a collar and a bell (fol. Upper right-hand border with a squirrel, Estoire del Saint Graal et al. A squirrel jousts against a monkey, Li Livres dou Tresor (British Library Yates Thompson 19, fol. A squirrel eats a nut, the Ormesby Psalter (Douce 366, fol. A squirrel shoves a nut in its mouth, psalter and hours (British Library Yates Thompson 15, fol. A man holds a squirrel with a dog on a leash (fol. Floor tile with a lady holding a squirrel, c. A squirrel in the upper border, the Ashridge Petrus Comestor (British Library Royal 3 D VI, fol. A grey squirrel in an initial letter L, psalter (Ashmole 1525, fol. Note the different varieties of squirrels that appear, including the long-eared red squirrels. The following links include pet squirrels and the material culture relating to pet squirrels (including collars, leashes, and hutches) as well as iconography of wild squirrels, especially in medieval manuscript marginalia. 1670 - and into the 18th century, as observed in portraits of Daniel Crommelin Verplanck, Rebecca Orne, a boy, two children, etc.) (In fact, the keeping of pet squirrels continues into the 17th century - see this detail from a still life by Abraham Mignon, c. 
Tophas: A squirrel? O gods, what things are made for money! Tophas: What is that the gentlewoman carrieth in a chain? Such is the case of the squirrel, a popular medieval pet, which is almost always described and depicted as being fitted with a collar and chain, usually finely crafted in silver … the practice of keeping pet squirrels on chains still prevailed in the sixteenth century, as observed in a dialogue in John Lyly's play Endymion: Squirrels were kept as pets in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as Kathleen Walker-Meikle notes in Medieval Pets :Įven if it came from a species that had little intrinsic monetary value, an animal could be transformed into a pampered pet of exalted status by adorning it with elaborate accessories.
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