Sometimes I too feel ‘misbound but perfect’, Francis Jenkinson. Written in a copy of Gaspar Ens’s book on Dutch discoveries in the New World (Cologne, 1612). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social N*.5.51(G).

Behold the hole in the parchment!

MS Dd.4.17; Books of Hours; 14th Century C.E.; East Anglia;
f.36v @camdiglib.bsky.social

Medieval drawing of 3 cats. One of them is trying to get at a bird in a birdcage, one is licking itself and the other one has caught a large rat.

Cats doing cat things. Bodleian Library Bodley 764 f. 51r #Caturday

Manuscript was decorated by the cleric Wandalgarius who leaves his mark here beneath a crowned lawgiver:

"Uandalgarius fecit hec"

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 731; Lex Romana Visigothorum, Lex Salica, Lex Alamannorum; 793 CE; Lyon; p.234
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

Looks interesting! Is this out now? I can’t seem to access it on Brepols yet..

How's 2025 going?

"Oh, you know, it's going"

A Greek vessel with an owl with helmet, shield, and a lance

For #SuperbOwlSunday a.gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.

Photo: Louvre, Paris

Whenever you're trying to study, there's always some fool in a wheelbarrow making a noise.

BL Harley MS 3487; Aristotle, Libri naturales; 13th century; England; f.22v

a medieval drawing of a dog standing upright wearing a hood and holding a bottle. beside him is a cat laying in bed wearing what looks like a nightcap. both have distraught expressions on their faces.

doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century