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November Calendar: Thrashing the Acorns.
It's time to take the pigs to the forest and rattle the branches of the oak trees so they shed their acorns, thus fattening up the animals.
Hours of Henry VIII. Illuminated by Jean Poyer, Tours, ca. 1500. @MorganLibrary H. 8
Beware in the bathhouse!
Medea’s magic bath kills King Peleus and restores King Eson to his youth.
The Middle Dutch Historie van Jason. Haarlem, c 1470 - c 1480 @BLMedieval Add MS 10290
Gooseberries. In my childhood we had it in our garden. It is still one of my favourite fruits.
Nederlandsche flora en pomona. 1876. Collection St Agatha.
Aardbei | Strawberry
Elisabeth Geertruida van de Kasteele, 1818 - 1853 #femaleartist @rijksmuseum
Crocodile devouring a man, the Latin text says. Poor man, strange crocodile.
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 053: The Peterborough Psalter and Bestiary. @ParkerLibCCCC
He wears glasses. He should read the letter!
The "Conspiracy of Catilin" and the "Jugurthine War" by Sallust. c. 1420. Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 54
A Very Beautiful, Rare, or Perhaps Completely Unknown American Long-tailed Kingfisher | Een Zeer Fraaiën, Zeldzaamen, Of Misschien Geheel Onbekenden Amerikaanschen Langstaartigen Ys-vogel.
A. Vosmaer. Amsterdam, 1768
Maarten van Rossum (c. 1478 – June 7, 1555): one of the most innovative and notorious army commanders in Dutch history. Field marshal of Duke Charles of Guelders. I wrote a blog (in Dutch) about Zaltbommel, the city where he was born and where he lived.
https://t.co/ccCWeWnqvF
Strawberry.
Elisabeth Geertruida van de Kasteele, The Hague 16 June 1808 - 14 January 1853. @rijksmuseum
#femaleartist