Smithfield Decretals, f. 30v: the "medieval Yoda"

Smithfield Decretals, British Library, Royal MS 10 E IV, folio 30v. A legal textbook, of all things: a copy of Pope Gregory IX's decretals written in southern France, probably Toulouse, around 1300, with marginal scenes added in London around 1340. This small figure, with a greenish face, big pointed ears and a long robe, went viral after a British Library curator noticed how much it looks like Yoda. In context it is probably meant as the Devil, perhaps dressed up as a professor of canon law.