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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.
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@FarleyKatz1 @k_a_tuley @NewberryLibrary @WangensteenRare @BLMedieval @sims_mss @erik_kwakkel @visitHMML A medieval version of this:
Left: Saint Quentin, tortured with 'mustard and other violent condiments' (Saint-Quentin, BM, Ms. Basilique Saint-Quentin 1, ca. 1100)
Right: Quentin's Hot Mustard Sauce
Coincidence? Yes!
'Naming the sauce after my grandpa is also a nod to my grandma Louise.' #contingency
Nativity, copper engraved illustration in a 16th-c. manuscript.
Liège, BU, 248 Collectarium praeceptorum moralium
Sint-Truiden, 1552.
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Paris, BnF, Espagnol 36 f.15v #CatsOfTwitter #CatsoftheMiddleAges
Julius Caesar and Cleopatra
Augustus and Livia Drusilla
Paris, BnF, Français 594
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This stained glass window from a church in Brussels was destroyed during the bombardments of August 1695, but this drawing shows that Englebert d'Enghien had the cutest little puppy.