It will soon be the Spring Equinox....

British Library Add 18856; Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale; c.1420 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.5v

Noch einmal: Wenn Nazis Nazisachen machen, ist das nicht die Schuld von Linksgrünen, Woken oder Dragqueens, die arme willenlose Konservative durch unverschämte Fairness-Forderungen in die Hände der Rechten getrieben haben. Wenn Nazis Nazisachen machen, ist das die Schuld der Nazis.

Manchmal bringe ich in Diskussionen mit FDP-Freunden diesen Unterschied an und jedes Mal wenn ich mit „100 Milliarden Verlust durch Steuerhinterziehung pro Jahr“ daherkomme muss ich es nochmal googlen weil ich mir sicher bin, dass ich mich vertan haben

Maddow: If you don't have Bluesky yet, I recommend it. It is a social media network that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork

Sunday outing.

#medievalsky

@britishlibrary.bsky.social MS Royal 20 B XX f. 77v

As we approach the Winter Solstice, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.

BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

Initial 'D'(iligite) at the beginning of the Book of Wisdom, depicting the personification of Wisdom

BL Add MS 10546; The 'Moutier-Grandval Bible'; c.830 CE-c.840 CE; France (Tours); f.262v

Three panel Tiina Menzel cartoon of a car pushing 2023 off the shelf

mood

A quick snack in the initial 'T'(obias)

Bodleian Library MS. Auct. E. inf. 2; The Auct. Bible’ or ‘St. Hugh’s Bible’, vol. II; 12th century; England (Winchester); f.155v

Achtung, eine wichtige Mitteilung des Kaisers:

"Es ist uns zu Ohren gekommen, dass im Reich falsche Friedriche unterwegs sind."

"Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum"

Württembergische Landesbibliothek, WLB Cod.bibl.fol.23 Stuttgart Psalter; 801 CE-850 CE; St. Germain-des-Prés, Paris, France; f.2r @WLB_Stuttgart

I wish you good night with the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. May your sleep be as deep but not as long! 😴

Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 127; Passionary of Weissenau; 12th century; Premonstratensian monastery of Weissenau, Germany; f.125v (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

A beautiful initial dragonish 'q'(uid)

Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 207; Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum; end of 8th / beginning of 9th century; Fleury (?); f.37v (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

A small creature is standing with its arms wide open. It has a sickle in its right hand and a small, circular green shield in its left hand. The creature has the face of a human but the legs of an animal.

A small creature from the 13th-century Percy Psalter giving come-at-me-bro! vibes.

British Library Add MS 70000, f. 4v

A medieval drawing of a knight on a horse who has just unseated another knight from his horse. The fallen knight lays on the ground while the fallen knight’s steed, which is drawn from the from and much resembles an egg, looks on in disbelief

draw horse from fromt really hard....a timeless trouble

And this is how "Bluesky invite codes" were distributed back in the sixteenth century. #bookhistory 🗃️

Diagram of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

BnF MS Latin 13048; Adamnanus, De locis sanctis (ff.1-30); 9th century; f.4v @bnf.bsky.social

King David is seated, playing bells, while a musician and an acrobat perform for him. The acrobat is bent over, pointing his bum in the air in the direction of the king.

Roland the Farter was a jester who (according to the "Liber Feodorum") his land in Suffolk in return for "one jump, a whistle and one fart" at King Henry II's Christmas court every year.
 
Huth Psalter, c.1280-1300
British Library, Add MS 38116, f. 89r

Abbess Uta presenting the book to the crowned Mary who is holding the Christ child

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 13601; Quattuor Evangelia (the Uta-Codex); first quarter of the 11th century; p.7 @bsb_muenchen

A medieval drawing of a man playing a drum while a dog and a rooster on stilts dance

honestly looks like a fun party

Can you read the writing on the wall?

BnF MS Latin Latin 8878: Beatus a Liebana, Commentarius in Apocalypsin; & S. Hieronymus, Commentarius in Danielem; 11th century (before 1072 CE); France SW (Saint-Sever); f.229v

Old High German glossary written by a missionary 150 years after the death of St Gallus.

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 913; Vocabularius S. Galli; around 790 CE; Germany; p.186
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

Creation, fall, and expulsion

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 8713; Psalterium cum sex picturis et multis litteris initialibus pictis; 13th century; f.19v

Folk art painting of a large shorthaired black or grey cat with a disapproving look on its face sitting on a patterned light yellow carpet. It seems to be the momma of a very round kitten that is rolling on its back playing with a ball of pink yarn. Its body is like a perfect plump little grey potato with a happy kitten head on top and a skinny tail trailing behind.

I love this roly-poly happy chonklet so much. 1929. www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/250...

Wedding feast of Henry and Matilda

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 373; Anonymous Chronicle to 1114 CE, based on Ekkehard of Aura's Imperial Chronicle; ca. 1114 CE - 1125 CE; Germany; f.95v @ParkerLibCCCC @CorpusCambridge

Relax, it's the weekend!

BL Add 19776; the 'Coburg Pentateuch' with the Five Scrolls, Haftarot, & grammatical treatises; 1390-1396 CE; Germany, Central (Coburg); f.54v @BL_HebrewMSS @BLAsia_Africa

One must be dressed properly in order to write...

Getty Ms. 114; Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing; c.1530 CE; Flanders, Belgium; f.10r

Chaucer’s works go online Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400): poet, courtier, diplomat, Member of Parliament and royal administrator, and often called the ‘father of English poetry’. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is on...

Die British Library hat alle ihre Manuskripte der Werke Geoffrey Chaucers aus der Zeit vor 1600 digitalisiert und stellt diese Online zur Verfügung! Großartig!

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Now you see it, now you don't.....

Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 16; Augustine’s Enarrationes in psalmos 51-100; around 1100 CE; Schaffhausen; f.1r
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)