Magpie inspecting the cat’s butt. Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea, France 14th century. Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 808, fol. 88v.
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Siena, Italy, 2016
A glimpse beneath the tribune around Piazza del Campo two days before the famous (and horrible) horse race

Amphivena or amphisbaena - a two-headed serpent. De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 42r.
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#Workplace. #Apocalypse, Flanders ca. 1313. BnF, Français 13096, fol. 87r.
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Einen schönen Guten Morgen!

Zum heutigen #FensterFreitag ein Blick durch ein früheres Fenster der mittelalterlichen Kaiserpfalz im hessischen Gelnhausen auf die Marienkirche der Stadt. Der Bau stammt aus dem 13. Jahrhundert und zählt zum romanisch-gotischen Übergangsstil.

The gate in Remagen shown earlier. This was with my Canon digital. I did a virtual red filter in GIMP (Linux user) to bring out the detail and turned it grayscale in fairly high contrast. This looks like something that should be better known. #medieval #stonecarving #fantastic

Guten Morgen allerseits!

Zum #DoorsDay heute das Tor der Burg Zwernitz in Oberfranken. Die im Markt Wonsees gelegene Festung steht auf einem schmalen Felssporn und wurde im Jahr 1156 erstmals urkundlich erwähnt als Stammsitz des edelfreien Geschlechts der Walpoten.

Illuminated squirrel. Jean Mansel, ‘La Fleur des histoires ou les hystores rommaines abregies…’, France 1454. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms 5088 réserve, fol. 30r.
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Rǫgnvaldr Kali Kolsson (c. 1100–1158), Earl of Orkney, died #OTD, 20 August.

Rǫgnvaldr was a skilled poet (& after his death – slightly surprisingly – canonised as St Ronald of Orkney – f.d. 20 August). Ian Crockatt has translated many of his poems; this one is from CRIMSONING THE EAGLE’S CLAW: The Viking Poems of Rǫgnvaldr Kali Kolsson (Arc Publications, 2014)

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https://www.arcpublications.co.uk/books/rognvaldr-kali-kolsson-crimsoning-the-eagles-claw-the-viking-poems-of-rgnvaldr-kali-kolsson-earl-of-orkney-518

Three kings in bed.‘Salzburg Missal’, Regensburg ca. 1478-1489. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 15708 I, fol. 63r.
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I outstrip the moon in brightness,
I outrun midsummer suns…

Edwin Morgan died #OTD, 19 August, 2010. “Riddle”, the final poem of Morgan’s final collection, Dreams and Other Nightmares (Mariscat, 2010), is a translation of one of the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book riddles, itself a translation of a Latin original by the poet Aldhelm (c.639–709 CE).

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Superdog. Froissart’s Chronicles, Bruges ca. 1470-1475. Paris, BnF, Français 2643, fol. 312v.
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War #elephant. bestiary, England 13th century. Bodleian Library, MS. e Mus. 136, fol. 19v.
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Rider on the stork. psalter, England 13th century. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 5, fol. 211v.
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#KungFu knight. Le livre de Lancelot du Lac and other Arthurian Romances, Northern France 13th century. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS 229, fol. 326r.
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A little medieval humor

Monday is the start of the summer school in #digital #palaeography which I run in Göttingen every summer. We have 16 amazing international students and 2 weeks to play with #medieval fragments, #multispectral imaging, network analysis, bookbindings, biocodicology and much much more, topped off by a trip to the fabulous @hab_wf and a hackathon. It's the absolute highlight of my year. Follow this year's posts and photos via #SummerSchool25. @histodons @medievodons @historikerinnen