A watchful D.C. resident sent me a photo of something we haven’t seen in years; water flowing down the cascading fountain at Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park. NPS started work on the long-dry fountain late last year, as part of a broader project to refurbish the park.
That sounds excellent. Especially since I just plumped for Hallmark so I could watch the final season of The Way Home, to which I am totally addicted.
Plus cheesesteaks and microfilm! Mmmm!
She: how can I get out of this situation? Kid: having the time of his life. Giant sheep: looming. Dog: hiding. Painted in 1627 by Jacob Cuyp, whose day is today.
Thanks! So weird!
Roll up for the VIEWS summer seminars! We have Egyptian graffiti, the Phrygian alphabet, early cuneiform animals and the ultimate question of how writing grows up and develops... Two hybrid sessions, two online only. Join us!
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Here's a weird question. Is anybody else finding that the Codex Fuldensis is displaying in neon green and purple? Or have my eyes and/or my browser lost their minds? Have I tweaked a display setting I can't see?
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Read Catherine Conybeare's, "Love, grace and world peace: how an African saint has shaped Pope Leo’s worldview" in @ca.theconversation.com.
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Meme. Painting of King Henry I, wearing his crown and looking like a man who will stop at nothing to get eels. His faces is lined, and he the skin under his eyes is drooping. He looks worn and tired, like it's 6 AM and he's been binge-watching Sex in the City all night. His hair doesn't look old and haggard, though. It is a dark, rich brown, and he has a full beard and mustache combo that would be the envy of many a hipster. You know he's the king by his attire. He's wearing a large golden crown with spikes and fleur de lis, and a fur cloak with a fancy gold collar. There's no missing him, though it's fun to imagine him trying to blend in at a CVS while dressed like this. Despite his tired aspect, he looks intent and determined. His eyes are hard. As well he should. He is facing death, but fuck that. Bring that man some eels. Meme text reads: "Eels are for kings Regret is for other people"
Are the eels plotting to kill you?
Maybe. They did in Henry I in 1135. And you might be next.
Henry died after eating a meal of eels (carnes murenarum). Eels disagreed with him, & his doctors warned him not to do it. But kings want what they want. And Henry wanted his eels. 1/3
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Me at the beginning of the semester versus the end:
(BSB 4 P.o.germ.111 d)
I recently completed a short project for which I used the traditional Word w/lots of separate docs plus a zillion Preview files open on my small laptop screen and though it got done successfully, it was kind of a file-management nightmare and it reminded me why I should go back to Scrivener. 2/2
I love Scrivener, not just for the ease of rearranging chunks but because it allows me to manage passages of writing, PDFs and images I'm writing about, notes I'm taking on them, etc., all in the same window of the same program. 1/2
I love these.
Our instructor was Zofia Chamera. She's a very good teacher and she makes cool art!
www.zofiachamera.com
Participants gathered around a table in a studio where two people are dipping moulds into trays of pulp and couching sheets onto a mat.
Another view: people lifting moulds of paper from the vats.
Great fun making paper at @pyramidatlantic.bsky.social today with the Washington Rare Book Group!
Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Acharei Mot (אַחֲרֵי מוֹת) with this creature in red and gold. #ParashahPictures
Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.68v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
A gray-morph Eastern Screech Owl has eyes like golden kiwifruit. Her feathers fuzzily fluctuate between shades of ashy white and black granite. She's wrapped in a white towel, or, it would be white if not for the spillage of contents from her most recent meal; a mess of mouse juice soaking across her beak, chin bristles, and towel. Culinary etiquette aside, she's cute as a button.
Red Wolf Sanctuary posted this Eastern Screech Owl with the caption: "This towel is warm. I was just fed. My face is still messy. Red Wolf is taking great care of me. I'm gonna take a nap now."
Want to donate to RWS? redwolf.org/general-dona... Source: fb.com/102603184628... #owlsintowels 💛🦉
I'd have guessed so, but it has a May 2021 date on the warning!
Yeah, it was on a page for an architect/academic, not a celebrity or current controversial figure or anything. Very odd.
27 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
The expected: 17th C Papal stuff, Ge'ez liturgy, classics. Less common: Inquisition reports, Venetian chronicles, Apocalypse commentary, and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Screenshot of a warning that popped up over a Wikipedia page. The text says: "Page issues This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of use. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. See our advice if the article is about you and read our scam warning in case someone asks for money to edit this article. (May 2021)"
This is the first time I've ever seen this warning on a Wikipedia page. Weird.
"..a certain Abbot Hadrian, a man of African race and well versed in the holy Scriptures.....and equally skilled in the Greek and Latin tongues."
BL Cotton MS Tiberius C II; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; 9th century; England;f.94r
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We know that Margaret of Anjou had a prayer roll (whatever it was actually used for). Did Prince Edward? Did he receive it on his knighting in 1460 (age 7)? I think he may have, and it still exists.
The second book opens with the death of Pope St Gregory in 605.
BL Cotton MS Tiberius C II; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; late 8th - early 9th century; England, S.; f.34v
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The third book opens with the death of Edwin and the passing of the kingdom of the Deiri to a son of his uncle Aelfric called Osric.
BL Cotton MS Tiberius C II; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; late 8th - early 9th century; England, S.; f.60v
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The 4th book opens with an eclipse, pestilence, the return of Colman to his own people, and the death of Deusdedit the sixth bishop of Canterbury.
BL Cotton MS Tiberius C II; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; late 8th-early 9th century; England, S.; f.94r
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The fifth book tells of Oethelwald who succeeded Cuthbert, man of God, in the solitary life on Farne Island.
BL Cotton MS Tiberius C II; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; late 8th - early 9th century; England, S.; f.126r
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This is a dance off. If you see this, repost with a dance or you're eliminated.
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'I'(N PRINCIPIO FECIT DOMINUS CELUM ET TERRAM)
BnF MS Latin 1720; Various including S. Ambrosius, Hexaemeron ff.8v-111r; end of the 11th century; f.10r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
Stone epitaph for the Carolingian Emperor Louis II. Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, 2007. From wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0111_-_Milano_-_Sant%27Ambrogio_Lastra_tombale_Ludovico_II_(%2B_875)_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_25-Apr-2007.jpg
Never realized that we have the epitaph on Louis II's tomb in St. Ambrose in Milan, neat
*you can find a transcription in MGH Poetae 3, p. 405.
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