Behold the hole in the parchment!
MS Dd.4.17; Books of Hours; 14th Century C.E.; East Anglia;
f.36v @camdiglib.bsky.social
29.04.2025 21:27 — 👍 183 🔁 34 💬 7 📌 3
Medieval drawing of 3 cats. One of them is trying to get at a bird in a birdcage, one is licking itself and the other one has caught a large rat.
Cats doing cat things. Bodleian Library Bodley 764 f. 51r #Caturday
26.04.2025 20:53 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Manuscript was decorated by the cleric Wandalgarius who leaves his mark here beneath a crowned lawgiver:
"Uandalgarius fecit hec"
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 731; Lex Romana Visigothorum, Lex Salica, Lex Alamannorum; 793 CE; Lyon; p.234
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
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Looks interesting! Is this out now? I can’t seem to access it on Brepols yet..
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How's 2025 going?
"Oh, you know, it's going"
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A Greek vessel with an owl with helmet, shield, and a lance
For #SuperbOwlSunday a.gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.
Photo: Louvre, Paris
09.02.2025 12:52 — 👍 905 🔁 208 💬 14 📌 13
Whenever you're trying to study, there's always some fool in a wheelbarrow making a noise.
BL Harley MS 3487; Aristotle, Libri naturales; 13th century; England; f.22v
15.12.2024 20:44 — 👍 101 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 2
a medieval drawing of a dog standing upright wearing a hood and holding a bottle. beside him is a cat laying in bed wearing what looks like a nightcap. both have distraught expressions on their faces.
doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century
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She/Her. Latin Language & Literature @ UniMelb. Into Ancient & Medieval, Philology, Manuscripts, Compilation, Reception/Transmission, other cool stuff. Teach Latin and Underworld & Afterlife inter alia.
Work and live on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land.
Professor at a University in the Fens.
Historian of the Hospitallers, Templars, crusades, and Jews in medieval England.
rorymaclellan.com
Literature Professor, historical materialist, eco-theorist, solarpunk
Smith College/UMass Amherst | Art, architecture, material culture | Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages
Legal academic, PhD - researching EU Rule of law, the CJEU, EAW and judicial independence deficiencies, medieval, legal and Celtic history. Latest book https://brill.com/display/title/61820.
Teacher-scholar at the intersection of World History, Jewish Studies, and Islamic Civilizations Studies. New book in 2026: https://bit.ly/PerrySlavery. Co-editor: The Cambridge World History of Slavery vol. 2: https://bit.ly/CWHS2
Historian. Academic Advisor @ University of Virginia. Columnist @ Boston Review. Book: TAKING AMERICA BACK: THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE FAR RIGHT // Yale Press // April 2024
Historian, author. Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS. Next: MUSKISM with Ben Tarnoff. Preorder here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 quinnslobodian.com
ERC Project "From Digital to Distant Diplomatics" - https://didip.eu
[bridged from https://fedihum.org/@DiDip_ERC on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Illuminierte Urkunden des Mittelalters
Buchmalerei
https://cartafranca.hypotheses.org/
https://www.monasterium.net/mom/IlluminierteUrkundenFrankreich/collection
Specialista dell’Antichità tarda
Dottoressa in storia romana
Di Milano
Franco-italiana
Historian of espionage, diplomacy and international law in the medieval period. Originally from the snowy north. Professor at Cardiff University. www.jembenham.wordpress.com
Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Medievalist: retired curator of early books and manuscripts (Beinecke Library, Yale University), Latin Paleography, Middle English Paleography, Book History, Hagiography.
Medieval historian | postdoc @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social | Early medieval manuscripts and religious education
Personal website: libripendis.eu
Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Making the March project at the University of Manchester. Early medievalist. English society, law, landscape c. 600–1100. Book in progress on c10–11 East Anglia.
Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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