scholar_farmerThe starting initial of Nider's Decalogi made me laugh! Take that, Thursday!
M26907 Nider, Johannes: Praeceptorium divinae legis. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, um 24.V.1475. 2°
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Today's blog post is on the scorched sculpture, a wooden Christ ca 1500 from Brno's Moravian Gallery
I might have mentioned #Fabio and his fabulous hair...
I wrote a (short) thing! Blog post on the surprising absence of smell from the multisensory details covered in memorial endowments in early modern Bregenz
https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/
#smell #multisensory #liturgy #memorial #blog #research #histodon #15thc #16thc
I wrote a thing! This is my first extended assessment of Vorarlberg prayerbooks, focused on prayers "before" the image of Mary
Today's blog post uses Jahnabi Barooah Chanchani's assessment of imagery in a Sanskrit devotional text to assess what images might be doing in an Austrian prayerbook of the same period
CHICAGO AREA FRIENDS:
I'm speaking at #Northwestern tomorrow (Thurs 10/24/24) on "What the Nuns Heard:
The Politics of Sound in the Observant Reform of Kirchheim unter Teck"
It's at 4p in the Bienen School of Music
#Nuntastic #Soundscape #Music #Medieval
#Histodons #Monasticism #Dominicans #ObservantReforms #15thc #CountsBehavingBadly #AmWriting
Medical advice from 1490:
To sleep in the sunshine is evil. To sleep in the moonshine is even more evil.
You heard it here first!
Regimen Sanitatis, Augsburg 1490
(For real nerds, the book is digitized: https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-9414701-bk -- see fol. 27v)
I would just like to point out that the extra “h” added mid word as an adjunct to the “ck” is ruining my typing forever.
“junckhfraw” (= jungfrau, virgin)
Over and over and over again
I had to look up the regular spelling; I no longer know it in my bones
#manuscript #spelling #15thc #histodons #medieval #prayerbook