# medieval monk rijksmuseum corona mementomori franciscan mnemonic library monks books history

If anyone ever wondered how these beautiful manuscripts were made... Only surviving medieval sculpted ink stand with depiction of c.1380-1400, https://t.co/g4GfImzoTD

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2020-12-17

Very actual message in times. tempus fugit. winged sand hour glass on a portrait of Joannes Neyen, general of the order of friars, ambassador in Trier by Jan Muller after Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, c.1608, coll.

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2020-09-25

technique in the paintings of Franciscan with by Francisco de Zurbarán ca. 1628 to remember the of the monastic order. https://t.co/yobrtKrxsG

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2020-06-04