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Historian/Historiker, (he/him), Mainz (Germany) 📷: Ausschnitt aus: Johannes Hus im Vorverhör vor dem Konzil zu Constnitz im Jahre 1415 - Karl Friedrich Lessig 1842,49
Gute Frage woran es lag. Jetzt kann ich auch auf sie zugreifen :)
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Just found another fight of the mythological Pygmies versus the mighty cranes.
BnF, Fr. 22971, fol. 47r c. 1480 (gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...)
#medieval #history #manuscript
A chess board with the same set up as the original medieval illustration.
It looks like the game is still in the early stages. A lot of pawn moves, but I think that might have been more common in #medieval #chess.
And the engine says that white as a tiny bit of an advantage.
What a cute #dragon in the #margins of the #medieval #manuscript BnF Fr. 2810 from 1410/1412, which belonged to John the Fearless.
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
Ah that's interesting. I suppose that there are many factors at play that determine if a revival of the process was even attempted.
12.02.2025 11:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very interesting. Could you add the time it took until the failed attempts were put to rest? Or did they mainly trail off?
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A figure in a late medieval manuscript drawn on a margin. They are pulling a missing piece of text on a rope and pointing to a place where it should be inserted.
Mistakes happen! If you forget to insert that one sentence in a paragraph the solution is easy. Just draw a dude in a hood and he will pull the missing text to the right place with a piece of rope!
Walters Ms. W.102 Book of Hours, late 13th/early 14th C.
www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/Walters...
Wikipedia race. Start at a Wikipedia page and try to be faster at another agreed on finish page using only the links in the article.
06.02.2025 08:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The EM-Dash sponsor is great. Their website was super helpful and the check out process worked well. Some might say to well.
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Little men with lances and bows, riding rams are attacking cranes which are taller then them.
I just found this beautiful illustration of "Pygmies" going to war with the cranes in the #Cosmographia by #SebastianMünster from 1550.
He would be one of the last persons to follow the #medieval tradition regarding the "Pygmies".
#history #books
I enjoyed every episode of Tangents over the years, all the way back to when it was Holly F*** Science.
Thank you so much for those beautiful and interesting hours. @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social @ceriley.bsky.social @hankgreen.bsky.social
I will miss it.
That's a beautiful one.
21.12.2024 17:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0TIL that we have to "thank" the RAF for our license plate font. Fascinating.
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Two #chess players in the beautifully illustrated #manuscript MS. Bodl. 264. (fol. 145v). Their game seems to be as interesting as the current #chessworldchampionchip.
CC-BY-NC 4.0 Bodleian Libraries
#history #medieval
This is one of my favorite illustrations in the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel of 1493. It shows a small man fighting storks. They belong to the monstrous humanoids that are said to inhabit the farthest corners of the world.
Colorized #incunabulum: shorturl.at/OWruA #history #medieval
