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30 July 2016

Caption Competition 6

It's time to get your thinking caps on again. Can you think of a witty caption for the image below, taken from one of the magnificent medieval manuscripts in the British Library's collections, the incomparable Gorleston Psalter?

Tweet us your suggestions to @BLMedieval, or add a comment at the foot of this post. There is no prize, but we will retweet and update this post with some of our favourite entries. Good luck!

Lovers of gastropods out there may want to check out our blogpost Knight v Snail. And you can also view the whole of the Gorleston Psalter, for free, on our Digitised Manuscripts site.

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Comments

Never listen to a snail: they are not as fast as they claim.

Posted by: Barbara Daniels | 30 July 2016 at 06:28 AM

First I carry you - then you carry me.

Posted by: Barbara Daniels | 30 July 2016 at 06:29 AM

Please don't say you've run out of petrol!

Posted by: Barbara Daniels | 30 July 2016 at 06:30 AM

But I prayed for a Peugot not an escargot.

Posted by: Barbara Daniels | 30 July 2016 at 06:31 AM

Oh Lord and Master, not another snail omelette.

Posted by: Ian | 30 July 2016 at 09:14 AM

Now I pray for garlic and for butter

Posted by: Kevin Brogle | 30 July 2016 at 12:09 PM

An Omastar! OMG--I don't have this in my Pokedex! Gotta throw an Ultra Pokeball!

Posted by: Sandi | 30 July 2016 at 03:33 PM

Keep out of the vegetable garden, Lettuce Pray.

Posted by: Colleen Pisaneschi | 30 July 2016 at 08:13 PM

Hail, snail!

Posted by: Theophania Elliott | 30 July 2016 at 08:20 PM

(Snail) Looks like you need more lubricant to get that sword unstuck from the stone - let me try.

Posted by: Martha Sherwood | 30 July 2016 at 09:35 PM

Please - don't let it be him!

Posted by: Kate Britt-Hazard | 30 July 2016 at 10:08 PM

The mills of the gods grind slowly... very slowly.

Posted by: Mary Wilson | 30 July 2016 at 10:24 PM

Holy Snail! Thou art the grail!

Posted by: Rani | 30 July 2016 at 11:00 PM

I fart in your general direction.

Posted by: Enid | 31 July 2016 at 05:57 AM

I fart in your general direction.

But...I am Arthur, King of the Britons.

Go away, or I will taunt you a second time.

Holy Grail
Spamalot
Monty Python

Posted by: Enid | 31 July 2016 at 01:12 PM

"Nice shell, babe! Your place or mine?"

It was then that Arthur, King of the Britons, realized that snails, by and large, didn't go in for corrective lenses.

Posted by: M. Mitchell Marmel | 31 July 2016 at 01:48 PM

Please tell me it is OK to walk a marathon instead of run and that the runners will not be mean to me.

Posted by: Christine Whittington | 31 July 2016 at 08:50 PM

This new-fangled hand-dryer is a bit low down.

Posted by: Jo Story | 31 July 2016 at 09:03 PM

snail mail

Posted by: Joe harding | 31 July 2016 at 10:41 PM

Perhaps "Deus adiutorium meum intende" but it's NOT the Luttrell Psalter; the detail is from the Gorleston Psalter, Additional MS 49622, fol. 162v.

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Oops, well spotted. Corrected now!
Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts

Posted by: Lucy Freeman Sandler | 01 August 2016 at 06:37 PM

Forget the sword, cowardly human: Let's SLUG IT OUT!!

Posted by: David Brett Richardson | 02 August 2016 at 08:47 PM

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