It will soon be the Spring Equinox....
British Library Add 18856; Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale; c.1420 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.5v
Noch einmal: Wenn Nazis Nazisachen machen, ist das nicht die Schuld von Linksgrünen, Woken oder Dragqueens, die arme willenlose Konservative durch unverschämte Fairness-Forderungen in die Hände der Rechten getrieben haben. Wenn Nazis Nazisachen machen, ist das die Schuld der Nazis.
Manchmal bringe ich in Diskussionen mit FDP-Freunden diesen Unterschied an und jedes Mal wenn ich mit „100 Milliarden Verlust durch Steuerhinterziehung pro Jahr“ daherkomme muss ich es nochmal googlen weil ich mir sicher bin, dass ich mich vertan haben
Maddow: If you don't have Bluesky yet, I recommend it. It is a social media network that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork
Sunday outing.
#medievalsky
@britishlibrary.bsky.social MS Royal 20 B XX f. 77v
As we approach the Winter Solstice, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.
BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
Initial 'D'(iligite) at the beginning of the Book of Wisdom, depicting the personification of Wisdom
BL Add MS 10546; The 'Moutier-Grandval Bible'; c.830 CE-c.840 CE; France (Tours); f.262v
mood
A quick snack in the initial 'T'(obias)
Bodleian Library MS. Auct. E. inf. 2; The Auct. Bible’ or ‘St. Hugh’s Bible’, vol. II; 12th century; England (Winchester); f.155v
Achtung, eine wichtige Mitteilung des Kaisers:
"Es ist uns zu Ohren gekommen, dass im Reich falsche Friedriche unterwegs sind."
"Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum"
Württembergische Landesbibliothek, WLB Cod.bibl.fol.23 Stuttgart Psalter; 801 CE-850 CE; St. Germain-des-Prés, Paris, France; f.2r @WLB_Stuttgart
I wish you good night with the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. May your sleep be as deep but not as long! 😴
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 127; Passionary of Weissenau; 12th century; Premonstratensian monastery of Weissenau, Germany; f.125v (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
A beautiful initial dragonish 'q'(uid)
Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 207; Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum; end of 8th / beginning of 9th century; Fleury (?); f.37v (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
A small creature from the 13th-century Percy Psalter giving come-at-me-bro! vibes.
British Library Add MS 70000, f. 4v
draw horse from fromt really hard....a timeless trouble
And this is how "Bluesky invite codes" were distributed back in the sixteenth century. #bookhistory 🗃️
Diagram of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
BnF MS Latin 13048; Adamnanus, De locis sanctis (ff.1-30); 9th century; f.4v @bnf.bsky.social
Roland the Farter was a jester who (according to the "Liber Feodorum") his land in Suffolk in return for "one jump, a whistle and one fart" at King Henry II's Christmas court every year.
Huth Psalter, c.1280-1300
British Library, Add MS 38116, f. 89r
Abbess Uta presenting the book to the crowned Mary who is holding the Christ child
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 13601; Quattuor Evangelia (the Uta-Codex); first quarter of the 11th century; p.7 @bsb_muenchen
honestly looks like a fun party
Can you read the writing on the wall?
BnF MS Latin Latin 8878: Beatus a Liebana, Commentarius in Apocalypsin; & S. Hieronymus, Commentarius in Danielem; 11th century (before 1072 CE); France SW (Saint-Sever); f.229v
Old High German glossary written by a missionary 150 years after the death of St Gallus.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 913; Vocabularius S. Galli; around 790 CE; Germany; p.186
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Creation, fall, and expulsion
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 8713; Psalterium cum sex picturis et multis litteris initialibus pictis; 13th century; f.19v
I love this roly-poly happy chonklet so much. 1929. www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/250...
Wedding feast of Henry and Matilda
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 373; Anonymous Chronicle to 1114 CE, based on Ekkehard of Aura's Imperial Chronicle; ca. 1114 CE - 1125 CE; Germany; f.95v @ParkerLibCCCC @CorpusCambridge
Relax, it's the weekend!
BL Add 19776; the 'Coburg Pentateuch' with the Five Scrolls, Haftarot, & grammatical treatises; 1390-1396 CE; Germany, Central (Coburg); f.54v @BL_HebrewMSS @BLAsia_Africa
One must be dressed properly in order to write...
Getty Ms. 114; Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing; c.1530 CE; Flanders, Belgium; f.10r
Die British Library hat alle ihre Manuskripte der Werke Geoffrey Chaucers aus der Zeit vor 1600 digitalisiert und stellt diese Online zur Verfügung! Großartig!
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
Now you see it, now you don't.....
Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 16; Augustine’s Enarrationes in psalmos 51-100; around 1100 CE; Schaffhausen; f.1r
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
