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THE SILENT TOUCH OF SHADOWS – A haunting love story set partly in the present and partly in #15thCentury Kent.

#timeslip #dualtime #ghosts #bargain
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Today's #marginalmusicians (#bagpiper, #lutenist & #trumpeter) are all unfinished outlines, with the colours still to be added.
From L'Ystoire du tres sainct Charlesmayne, 1475-1500
BnF, Français 4970

#ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #bagpipe #lute #15thCentury

Today's #marginalmusician is a #monkey playing the #trumpet while sitting on a hog.
From a #15thCentury #bookofhours.
#BNF Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. Ms-639 réserve

#manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #earlymusic

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The largest exhibition of tarot cards in the world is in Italy, telling their true story Spanning six centuries, the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo's exhibition showcases tarot cards from the Colleoni deck, commissioned by the Sforza family in the 15th century, to works by 20th-century arti...

www.domusweb.it/en/art/galle... The largest exhibition of tarot cards in the world is in Italy, telling their true story #AccademiaCarrara #Italy #tarotcards #tarot #tarotsky #occultsky #Sforza #ColleoniDeck #15thCentury #cartomancy #exhibition #Bergamo

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #neighboringfaiths #nirenberg #religion #faith #belief #badhypothesis #christianity #15thCentury #antisemitism #bigotry #bias #jews #judaism #treason #degames #europe

Today is #internationalbagpipeday so here are a few #15thCentury marginal #bagpipers - #monkeys and strange creatures - from the Chansonnier cordiforme de Montchenu, c1470-1480
BNF Rothschild 2973
#earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #chansonnier #notation #sheetmusic #iconography #marginalmusicians

Nave and Angel roof at Bury St Edmunds, St Mary - a large and impressive church often missed by visitors drawn, instead, to St Edmundsbury Cathedral and the medieval abbey precinct just down the road #suffolk #churches #heritage #architecture #history #medieval #15thcentury #angelroof #burystedmunds

#germany #germanart #15thcentury #stjohnthebaptist #meninart #bust #beard

Make sure you look up.
Otherwise look at what you might miss!

#StMarys #Shrewsbury #Church #Churches #England #15thcentury

It's #Candlemas today, so the #marginalmusician is a detail from a page showing the Presentation at the Temple in a #15thCentury #bookofhours. A creature (half man, half something else?) playing the #trumpet.
BNF NAL 3110

#earlymusic #MarginaliaMonday #ManuscriptMonday

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🎨 Portrait of a Young Scribe at Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, 1480 #15thcentury

Why not both? "The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot" (1973) #15thCentury #allegedly #France #GreatHairpinShortage #BadAppliques #WeirdHats #BrigitteBardot #SnarkWeek buff.ly/y4Zq2OD

The eastern end of St Peter Mancroft, central Norwich, lit up an otherwise wet and grey day today #norwich #churches #medieval #architecture #history #heritage #15thcentury #shelter #light #wellbeing #wellcome

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #malleusmaleficarum #malleus #sprenger #kramer #witch #witchhunt #religion #misogyny #women #genderroles #15thCentury #germany #europe

Todays #marginalmusicians are #monkeys in flowers playing the #rebec.
From Heures de Jeanne de France, 1440-1460.
BNF NAL 3244
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #15thCentury #bookofhours #iconography #bowedstrings #marginalia

has though had numerous and varied uses over the year. Images Tim Green CC BY 2.0 (2013) 3/3 #15thcentury #heritage

Today's #marginalmusicians are playing the #triangle and the #psaltery.
From Trésor de sapience, Bruges, c1470-80.
Walters Art Museum W307

#manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #renaissance #15thCentury #iconography

Today's #marginalmusician is a #lutenist sitting on a branch.
From a #15thCentury German #Gradual, c1450
Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E M 64:13
#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #lute #illuminatedmanuscript #marginalia

1 January is the #eighthdayofChristmas, and the Feast of the Circumcision.
Here is an #illuminated initial from a song for today, from a #15thCentury #Antiphonal commissioned for the monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza in 1475.
#BostonPublicLIbrary
#earlymusic #renaissance #renaissancesky #otd

📜 Pages from the Childhood Notebook of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (the Conqueror), c. 1440 (Ages 7–10)

The pages contain the Greek alphabet written by his tutor, alongside his own experimental imperial tughra designs, the Arabic alphabet, as well as various human and animal portraits. #15thCentury

28 December is the #fourthdayofChristmas, and the Feast of the #HolyInnocents.

Here is an #illuminated initial from a #song for #InnocentsDay, from a #15thCentury #Antiphonal commissioned for the monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza in 1475.
#BostonPublicLIbrary
#earlymusic #renaissance #otd

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #1492book #Fernández-Armesto #spain #jews #inquisition #expulsion #conversion #conversos #baptism #15thCentury #religion #judaism #Christianity #europe

26 December is the #seconddayofChristmas, and the Feast of #StStephen.
This detail from a #15thCentury #Antiphonal commissioned for the monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza in 1475, shows a song for #StStephensDay.
Boston Public LIbrary

#earlymusic #renaissance #renaissancesky #otd #onthisday

Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 22
A marginal musician playing the #shawm.
Detail from a page from a #15thCentury #Gradual, showing the #AdorationoftheMagi.
Florence, #BibliotecaMediceaLaurenziana, Edili 150

#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #renaissance

Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 15
Today's #marginal musician is playing #bagpipes.
Detail from a page showing the Annunciation to the Shepherds in a #15thCentury #bookofhours.
MS Lat 253. Houghton Library, Harvard University, c1490

#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #bagpipe

#65YearsAgoToday #SuperChief debuted in @dc.com #AllStarWestern #comics #117 #FlyingStag of #15thCentury #iroquois prays to #TheGreatSpiritManitou & #AMeteorFellFromTheSky #heWoreAFragmentAroundHisNeck gaining #superStrengthSpeedAndProlongedLife & alsoWears #ABisonHeadAsADisguise to #defendHisPeople