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The Antwerp giant Druon Antigoon
16th-c. drawing (c. 1556?, Valenciennes, BM, 805, f.23)
Head (c. 1534-1535, Antwerp MAS)
Giant (c. 2000)

Mise en abyme. Book inside the book. BL, Harley 612, England, c. 1425-1475. Texts by & about Bridget of Sweden (incl. her Revelationes).
The text in the drawing is Revelationes, Book 6, cap. 39, 7.
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Xenomorph XX121: "With the state of the industry being what it is at the moment, I thought, why not audition. You can imagine my surprise when they called me to say that I had got the part."

Image left: Montpellier, BU Médecine, H 438
Image right: Southpark

'Daer doen si simmen speren breken, [...] Din esel dansen ende springen.'
In their romances, they make monkeys joust and donkeys dance and jump about
(Life of St. Lutgart of Tongres, II, vv. 96 & 98)

Images: Paris, Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, 0143,
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand

'Ce est une raison por quoi cist escriz nest mie fait en chantant mes encontant'
Northern Italian copy (c. 1290) of the French Prose 'Bestiaire', with a rather fierce-looking swan
New York, Morgan Library, M. 459
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In stormy weather, the courier rides along the beach to bring the news of sinking ships.
Anonymous, the Netherlands, between 1570 and 1650.
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Re-opening of bars and restaurants (S.-E. of France, c. 1357)
Paris, Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, 0143

Death of a 14th-c. rockstar
"Around 1310 died Louis from Vaalbeek in Brabant, the best fiddler the world had ever seen. He invented the style of music we still listen to today."
(Brabantsche Yeesten, V, 633-42, c. 1316).
Image: N. France, c. 1315-1320.
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#InternationalWomensDay #internationalevrouwendag After the death of her husband, Duke Henry III, Adelaïde of Burgundy warded off foreign regents and reigned over Brabant until her son John I ascended to the duchy in 1267
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