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Historian. Academic. Lover of archives, dead friars, old buildings and anything before 1700. Tweeting in personal capacity.

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For my last tweet of 2020, here are wild roses, by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, c. 1596 - 1610, from the Rijksmuseum.

I wish you all a Happy 2021 and thanks for following, especially during these difficult times.

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Saint Anthony of Padua El Greco, Domenikos Theotokopoulos

(Museo Nacional del Prado)

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30 Dec 1591: d. Innocent IX one of shortest reigning Popes having been elected on 29 Oct 1591 (Bede753c/Utente)

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Pack of 52 playing-cards, each with several lines of Latin text.

The suits are millstones, harps, goats and cupids, Paris, 1544

Hand-coloured woodcut

(British Museum)

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30 Dec 1654: Augustine Garland and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper move that Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell be crowned

(British Museum)

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Amaryllis (Hippeastrum), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610

(Rijksmuseum)

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22 Dec: feast of Anastasia of Sirmium according to the Byzantine calendar. She died in 304.

I am tweeting her for her namesake who is ’s daughter. Martyr & healer, she is one of the women of the Roman canon.

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21 Dec 1635: The Court pastoral 'Florimène' played by a company in The sets were by Inigo Jones (British Museum)

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21 Dec 1636: Hugh Peter becomes minister at Massachusetts (BM)

Later supported execution of Charles I, executed Oct 1660, head placed on Bridge. Perhaps he should have stayed in Salem.

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The secret lives of 17th century (British Museum)

Reading by candle light in 1625, and out on a skate date in 1644.

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