@Caoursin

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Ich bin ein Historiker interessiert an Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, vor allem an Quellen und Quellenarbeit. Ich freue mich über Rückmeldungen.
CaoursinJul 28, 2025
EnniusJul 27, 2025
Scriptorium next to the tower of San Salvador de Tavara: a scribe has a knife & quill; the other is using a compass; & a seated man is cutting parchment with shears. #Medievalsky The Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.429; 'Las Huelgas Apocalypse' ; Spain (Toledo?); 1220; f.183r
CaoursinJul 28, 2025
AaronMJul 28, 2025
The first Hours from @smithcollege.bsky.social has been added, Codex 274 - https://www.cokldb.org/p/v100/ms/905
From Rouen, it has multiple later additions, including a Tallis motet, that point to English ownership. There's some evidence of cutting
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons
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CaoursinJul 28, 2025
Show threadAaronMJul 28, 2025
The calendar is medium-filled (211) and error prone, with an interesting red/blue/gold, but not complete, color pattern. A later hand added day numbers. On 5 of the months the KL was excised, and later replaced, making the top few entries on the verso difficult to read (see f.2v below)
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CaoursinJul 28, 2025
Medieval IlluminationJul 28, 2025
#Fox pretending to be dead. Bestiary, Thérouanne ca. 1270. LA, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 81v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
CaoursinJul 25, 2025
Medieval IlluminationJul 24, 2025
#Sustainable architecture. Le secret de l'histoire naturelle, France ca. 1480-1485. BnF, Français 22971, fol. 60v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
CaoursinJul 21, 2025
EnniusJul 21, 2025
Representations of the four elements, the four temperaments, and the four seasons BnF MS Français 571; Various incl. Brunetto Latini, Livre du Trésor; 14th c (c.1326); Hainaut (prob. Valenciennes); f.28r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
CaoursinJul 21, 2025
EnniusJul 21, 2025
World map held by Christ in Majesty BnF MS Français 571; Various including Brunetto Latini, Livre du Trésor; 14th century (c.1326); Hainaut (probably Valenciennes); f.36v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
CaoursinJul 20, 2025
Old English WordhordJul 20, 2025
micel, adj: great in size, in quantity, or in a metaphorical sense. (MIH-chell / ˈmɪ-tʃɛl)
Image: Liber de natura rerum; France (Abbaye de Saint-Amand), 13th century; Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 320, f. 59v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
CaoursinJul 19, 2025
EnniusJul 18, 2025
Teaching grammar 😳 BnF MS Français 574; Gossouin de Metz, Image du monde; c.1320 CE; France (Paris); f.27r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
CaoursinMay 26, 2025
scinexx - das wissensmagazinMay 26, 2025
Entdeckung im Selbstversuch: Archäologen haben nachgebaute Wikinger-Schiffe genutzt, um die Seerouten der „Nordmänner“ nachzuvollziehen - und Überraschendes entdeckt. #Wikinger #Wikingerschiff #Archaeologie #Seefahrt
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/seerouten-der-wikinger-rekonstruiert/
Seerouten der Wikinger rekonstruiert

Entdeckung im Selbstversuch: Archäologen haben nachgebaute Wikinger-Schiffe genutzt, um die Seerouten der „Nordmänner“ nachzuvollziehen. Bei ihren Fahrten

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