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בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה' אֶלוֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם זוֹכֵר הַבְּרִית וְנֶאֱמָן בִּבְרִיתוֹ וְקַיָם בְּמַאֲמָר
Prayer upon seeing a rainbow
Rogues gallery of philosophers: Aristotle, Plato, & the rest of the gang.
@MorganLibrary Dits moraux des philosophes, France c.1500
Sunstruck
Lyon, BM, ms. 0172 (Compilation of astronomical and mathematical treatises, 15thc) #Science #medievaltwitter #sciart
Medieval joke: Why did the woman set the windmill on fire?
Royal 10 E IV (Smithfield Decretals)
This 14th-c manuscript is full of dead bodies!
Avignon, BM, ms. 0136, f. 342, Roman Missal c.1370
Monkeys in the margin
Aix-en-Provence, Bibl. mun., ms. 0022 (Rouen, late 15th)
In this splendid 12th-c diagram, the winds speak:
"I hurl thunderbolts!"
"I adorn the Earth with flowers!"
"From me comes hail!" #sciart
Land-dwellers
British Library, Burney MS 97, Manuel Philes, De animalium proprietate (Greed) (1566). #sciart