Dirk Schoenaersさんのイラストまとめ

😻 #CatsOfTwitter
New York, The Morgan Library, MS M.485, fol. 117v

This little image of St. Clare is special. While there are other instances in which she is (also) carrying a book, she is more regularly depicted holding a monstrance like in these painted miniatures from the Low Countries.
https://t.co/GTg3f4pIAL
https://t.co/h73rBdv6W9

Saint Hallvard of Oslo, patron saint of scratched compact discs

'Van sancte Jorijs ridder'. St Georges, noble knight, God's chosen martyr, who by virtue of Christ's love died 9 deaths, carry my banner today and always, so I can trample underfoot the hubris of my enemies. Deliver victory in all my battles.
The Hague, KB, 79 K 2 #StGeorgesDay

According to this short history of the world from its beginnings, printed in Antwerp in 1533 it was the 15th-c. tech mogul Johann Fust:
'1452: Johannes Faustius first invented the art of book printing in Mainz in Germany.' https://t.co/nHlViPaiEe

Paris, BnF, Latin 10483
Breviary, Paris, 14th c.

Round and 'round, the mill goes round
As it does the corn is ground
Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 838 f. 55r
Arras, c. 1275-1300

'And on the first day of #April - this is no joke - Noah opened the hatch of the ark and saw that the earth had dried up.'
Jacob van Maerlant, #rijmbijbel, ll. 1231-1235
Image: The Hague, KB, KA 20, f. 5r.
No #AprilFoolsDay

Because real heroes don't always wear wings #hugamedievalist #hugamedievalistday

@FarleyKatz1 @k_a_tuley @NewberryLibrary @WangensteenRare @BLMedieval @sims_mss @erik_kwakkel @visitHMML A medieval version of this: