Casually using the @stemma.bsky.social dataset as an Early Modern RIP.ie Several epitaphs today, including this one:
'On Mr John Davnant Who died on Thursday, Aprill the 18 1622 being thee Mayor of Oxford. Dedicated to the Worthlesse and Witlesse Townsmen'
[Folger MS V.a. 103, f. 22r] #folgerfinds
In code? Is it just how words start to look at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon?
[Data from Bodleian MS Add. B. 106, f. 28v]
The incredible double hammer beam angel roof in the Church of St. Mary & All Saints, Willingham, Cambridgeshire 🤩
Dating to the 15th century, or slightly earlier, it was relocated here in the early 17th century, probably from nearby Barnwell Priory.
Black wooden church door framed by a white stone arch with a golden cherub at the center. Above is an arched window in a red brick wall. A white blossom tree leans into the left hand corner of the photo
Photo of information poster TEXT St Anne and St Agnes The church of St Anne (mother of the Virgin Mary) and St Agnes (4th century Roman martyr) was first recorded in about 1137. Its unusual double dedication was adopted in the 15th century. Only the 14th century tower survives from the medieval building. The church was largely destroyed by fire in 1548 and 1666. It was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren from 1676-87 in the form of a Greek cross. Past parishioners have included John Milton the poet, John Bunyan, author of the Pilgrim's Progress and John Wesley, founder of Methodism, who preached here in 1738. Enemy action in 1940 damaged much of the church. Restoration was only completed in the 1960s. The parish forms part of the United Parish of St Vedast-alias-Foster in nearby Foster Lane who hold occasional services here
Was here on choral business. Had NO idea it was Milton and Bunyan's old haunt!!!? ❤️
Black and white drawing in an Art Nouveau-ish style, of a woman stretching towards the rays of the sun that can just be seen at the top of the picture.
I love this. It's exactly how the sun makes me feel too. At least for the few minutes before I get overheated and have to retreat into the shade.
Hannah Frank, "Sun" (1943) artuk.org/discover/art...
Signature 'Edmund Talbot'. Delightfully spiral descenders looping down from the capital 'E' and final 't'
I really hope Edmund thought 'wheeeeeeeee' whenever he wrote those descenders
Just got new team photos for a forthcoming website update. Here's a sneak peek! 🤩
Close up of a passage in a manuscript TEXT Repentance First then Heaven Heaven is like Rachel, Faire and Comelie, and courted by All. All desire faire Rachel. Repentance is like Leah, Tender and Blear Eyed, with teares and sorrow. and is neglected by most'.
Brutal reading for a Leah 🤣🤣🙈🙈
'Heaven is like Rachel, Faire and Comelie, and courted by All. All desire faire Rachel. Repentance is like Leah, Tender and Blear Eyed, with teares and sorrow. and is neglected by most'.
Embroidered binding for 'The Book of Common Prayer' and bookmark, possibly by Broderers Company, embroidered in London, ca. 1634
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
Detail from Crivelli’s Virgin and Child with Saints Francis and Sebastian @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social #snail @earlymodlancs.bsky.social
Screenshot of STEMMA database TEXT Manuscript Item Details: Vpon a gnatt burnt in a candle ID: 20836 Has merge history: X New item: - Data source: celm Work: 4784: Silly buzzing wanton elf Manuscript: MS Add. 8684 Page or folio: f.11r-v Author: Richard Crashaw
Contender for the best first line in early modern poetry?? 'Silly buzzing wanton elf'
Screen shot of STEMMA database entry TEXT Title 'An elegy of the countess of Londonderry supposing her to be dead by her long silence' Heading: Lady Anne Southwell 'An elegy of the countess of Londonderry supposing her to be dead by her long silence' First line: Since thou fair soul art warbling to a sphere
When you leave someone on read too long:
'an elegy to the countess of Londonderry supposing her dead by her long silence' 🥶💀
Portrait of an unknown girl wearing a cap,
Leendert van der Cooghen, 1653 (Rijksmuseum)
The artist was born 9 May 1631 and d. #otd 18 Feb 1681.
In her letter to Lady Ridgway, Folger MS V.b.198, 3r
Photo of an extract of Lady Anne Southwell's letter to Lady Ridgway
How have I never read Anne Southwell's defense of poetry before???? '[Poetry] is the Herald of all Ideas... It is the silke thredd that strings your chayne of pearle; wch being broken, your iewells fall into the rushes; & the more you seeke for it, the more it falls into the dust of oblivion' ❤️
Tulip (Tulipa), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
Rijksmuseum
Photo of a label in a lift Text reads: THOROUGHLY EXAMINED
By viva?
We are supporting this conference on Charles Ignatius Sancho, the late-18thC Black British polymath. A recent upsurge in scholarly discoveries makes it timely to bring together international scholars and practitioners for the first time in over 25 years! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
Just love seeing this at night. @lincoln.ox.ac.uk chapel (1631; north windows of Old Testament patriarchs and prophets).
Portrait of Paolo Morigia, c. 1592-95.
By Fede Galizia, c. 1578– c. 1630 (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, #Milan)
She's made a feature of his spectacles, reflecting the room they are sitting in.
Morigia, for his part, is writing a poem about the picture she's painting.
The BM catalogue says 'Tortoise, and separate view of a walled, coastal town in the Veneto' for this by Melchior Lorck, mid-16th century.
I'm sticking with giant flying tortoise myself.
The zebra in this painting belonged to Shah Abbas of Persia who was born #otd 27 Jan 1571. It was presented to him by the Mughal emperor Jahangir in the early 1620s.
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
17th century woman's stomacher, #English: silk, weft-faced plain weave; embroidered with silk and metal threads in couched, satin and outline stitches.
(Art Institute Chicago)
Close up of early modern title page Text: BEING A fardle of Fancies, or a medley or Musick, stewed in four Ounces of the Oyl of Epigrams
New favourite subtitle!!?? 'Being
A fardle of Fancies, or a medley or Musick, stewed in four Ounces of the Oyl of Epigrams'
Southwell again: “What were all objects if there were no “I”?/ Or what were “I”s if darkness all invade?”
Madly speedy
University of Galway staff card
Officially a Galway Girl 😁
