Mooning / pointing at one's anus
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 46). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Spread only
Date or witness: c.1320–1330 in the cited copy
Region: Southern England
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1320 CE to 1330 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
Apes repeatedly present or point to their backsides; BL Harley MS 6563 ff.22r and 106r provides two catalogued examples.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
The gesture recurs in marginal art and more than once in the cited book.
What remains uncertain
A familiar gesture is not automatically an independently adopted cultural moment. The supplied evidence does not connect these images to common consumers or participatory copying.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria