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Back to basics: the plough, the grape, the farm, and the beehive
#SaturdayThoughts
BL Burney 272; Various including Virgil, Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis; c. 1473 CE; Germany or Austria (Melk?); ff.18r, 26r, 34v, 43v @BLMedieval
November isn't a good time time for pigs in the medieval calendar🫣
#medievalcalendar
BL Lansdowne 383; the 'Shaftesbury Psalter'; 12th century; England; f.8r @BLMedieval
A new leader is proclaimed.
BL Add MS 40731; The Bristol Psalter; 11th century; Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople); f.33r @BLMedieval
Hercules in two outfits
#SaturdayThoughts
BL Harley MS 1766; 15th century; f.65r @BLMedieval
BL Royal 6 E IX; 14th century; f.12r @BLMedieval
18th October is the feast of St Luke:
"Bos quia mactatur, bove Lucas significatur
Coepit ab hoc Lucas, quod sacrificat Zacharias"
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 5; Biblia latina vulgatae versionis cum prologis; 1143 CE-1178 CE; Engelberg; f.153v (https://t.co/5NtBzUdBHq)
18th October is the feast of St Luke:
"Bos quia mactatur, bove Lucas significatur
Coepit ab hoc Lucas, quod sacrificat Zacharias"
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 5; Biblia latina vulgatae versionis cum prologis; 1143 CE-1178 CE; Engelberg; f.153v (https://t.co/5NtBzUdBHq)
18th October is the feast of St Luke the Evangelist who is here depicted with a well stocked writing desk.
BL Harley 2820; the 'Cologne Gospels'; 11th century; Germany, W. (Cologne); f.120r @BLMedieval
@BLMedieval @KPW1453 William I enthroned
#BattleofHastings
BL Royal MS 20 A II; c.1307 CE-c.1327 CE; England,N.; f.5v @BLMedieval
Birds in the nest and birds in the tree
#ManuscriptMonday
BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277-1324 CE;ff.325r, 332v @BLMedieval @BL_MadeDigital
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