Drolleries (or drollery), often called a "grotesque", are decorative thumbnail sketches in the margins of Illuminated manuscripts, most popular from about 1250 through the 15th century, although found earlier and later. Specifically images which appear as mixed creatures, either between different animals or between animals and human beings, or even between animals and plants or inorganic things. For example cocks with human heads, dogs carrying human masks, archers winding out of a fish’s… (More on Drolleries)