medieval Goatse



below: Psalm 44(45):9-10 ’[Mirra et gutta et casia a vestimentis tuis, a domibus eburneis; ex quibus delec]taverunt te filie regum [in honore tuo]’ (‘All thy garments smell of myrrhe, and aloes, and cassia: out of the Iuorie palaces, whereby they haue made thee glad. Kings daughters were among thy honourable women’)

cf. the dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf: 'The king Salomon discended from hys hors and began to loke into the oven. Marcolphus laye all crokyd, hys vysage from hymwardes, had put downe hys breche into hys hammes that he myght se hys arshole and alle hys othre fowle gere. As the kyng Salomon, that seyng, demawnded what laye there, Marcolph answeryd: I am here. Salomon: Wherefore lyest thou thus? Marcolf: For ye have commaunded me that ye shulde no more se me betwyxt myn yes. Now and ye woll not se me betwyxt myn yes, ye may se me betwene my buttockys in the myddes of myn arsehole.’



Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century (British Library, Additional 49622, fol. 61r)