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The Pillar-biter, 1509-1517 seen on the lower part of the choir screen of St. Bavo Church in Haarlem, the Netherlands.
Commissioned by Catherine of Cleves, this prayerbook is one of the greatest Dutch illuminated manuscripts ever produced. The coins in the border are painted so accurately that most can be identified. The saintly Pope Gregory is shown in the central image.
Seems like a good time for a festive Ave Maria BnF MS Latin 1173; 'Hours of Charles of Angoulême; 15th century (c.1480 CE-1496 CE); Angoulême (or Cognac?) and Tours; f.52r @GallicaBnF
I'd just like to share the Old Norse word ostmýgir, a kenning used to mean 'man', literally meaning 'oppressor of cheese'.
Periodic reminder of the little triangle player in the 15th-century glazing in the Beauchamp Chapel of St Mary’s, Warwick.
Two monsters, Francesco Melzi, 1503 - 1570. (Rijksmuseum) Perhaps looking more like slightly doleful aliens?
Ok here's how I think Chaucer ought to go — more or less (nerdy caveats in thread). Me reading the first 78 lines of the prologue to the Canterbury Tales (the opening and the description of the Knight), complete with a somewhat freehanded modern English prose paraphrase.
When the nuns of Uppsala, Sweden, purchased a damaged book in 1417, they mended its pages with colourful embroidery. #frockingFabulous indeed! Via Uppsala Universitet.
A quiet moment. The early 15th century cloisters at Canterbury Cathedral:
My discovery of the day are German Tanzlinden - rural linden trees turned into places to dance, the oldest of which dates from 1686. This one is in Peesten north of Nuremberg
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