Profs Sally Mapstone & Dauvit Broun explore the St Andrews Chronicles – one of Scotland’s most important historical works – tracing the manuscript’s journey to St Andrews & its significance for understanding Scottish identity, legacy & nationhood
#BookHistory #C16th
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“The Flyting o’ Life & Daith” ☝️ is based on a #C16th German folksong, “Streitlied zwischen Leben und Tod”. You can listen to Henderson’s poem being sung here by Alison McMorland
#song #folksong
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“The Flyting o’ Life & Daith” ☝️ is based on a #C16th German folksong, “Streitlied zwischen Leben und Tod”. You can listen to Henderson’s poem being sung here by Alison McMorland:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAhe...
Photograph of Rufford Old Hall in Lancashire. Distinct C16th Tudor Great Hall wing in its black and white finery adjoined by its newer C18th accommodation block of soft red brick symmetrical features. In front is a green lawn. Blue sky overhead. On the far right of the photograph appears a dinosaur. It isn’t but a person in a padded coat taking a photo 😂
Historical Mashup
for #PalacesandGardens
#EastCoastKin #photography #architecture #exterior #tudor #C16th #C18th #Lancashire #RuffordOldHall
16th century map showing a section of suth american coast and some islands. Several fleets are illustrated.
Map of the Atlantic showing the rout of drakes west indies expedition.
Maps of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage, late #c16th
This is a great collection of maps and illustrations of the early colonial period.
🗃️
LOC
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Map detail from 16th century map of the Atlantic showing the "Baye of Mexico"
Detail from map of Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage, late 16th century.
That body of water has been named after Mexico for centuries.
#c16th 🗃️
LOC
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Nautical, highly decorative map of the Indian ocean, 1519.
Nautical Atlas of the Indian Ocean, 1519.
There's some cool details in here, and this feels like an interesting transition from more abstract medieval maps to more literal modern maps.
#c16th 🗃️ #maps
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A cute little sea-pig with curly tail, webbed feet, giant ears, and a little webbed goatee sends greetings from a 16th century map.
This little sea-pig would like to congratulate you on making it to Thursday. You're doing great!
From the map, "La descriptione dela Puglia," produced in Venice, Italy in 1567.
Image Attribution: From the British Library archives (Maps C.7.c.9 )
#cartography #seamonster #oldmaps #c16th 📜 🗃️
pen and ink map of West Africa, 1596
Map of West Africa, 1596.
It is great as a piece of artwork, and as a historical map.
#maps 🗃️ #c16th
LOC
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Historical embroidery
#WorkInProgress #WIP Sat Aug 31: Cartouche, double crossbow, and rinceaux (scrollwork)
The scrollwork holds the linen in place like tree roots hold soil.
#C16th #EarlyModern hand #embroidery, recreating V&A 173-1869 in polychrome silk on linen
A 24" x 36" panel of fine linen embroidered in a Safavid Persian design of flowers, fruit, shells, and coronets of pearls & feathers with Islimi and curls.
Detail of linen panel embroidered in silk as the fabric relaxes and begins to reveal it's final form
This morning I fully released the panel from the frame.
As the fabric relaxes, the scrollwork rises, defining space and drawing the eye.
The motifs pop up from the linen, emulating stumpwork - but there is no padding here, just the silk itself
#C16th #C17th #EarlyModern #embroidery
Cleaning up the back before I start releasing the linen
In the 1590's, at this point an apprentice would brush the back with beeswax from the searing candle to hold the threads & design flat & in place
I let it go free - it's prettier & more interesting.( #C16th - #C17th tailors would be horrified)
#WIP Tue March 5: Lilies, Islimi, and leaves
Only 2-1/2 leaves left, and this panel will be complete
One more sleeve to go
#C16th #C17th #EarlyModern
Hand #embroidery
#DressHistory #FashionHistory
Interesting. The stamens of the lilies originate from inside the flower, under the flipped-up petals, & run *over the tops* of the inner petals.
I have little space between the lilies & the rinceau on this panel, but I can make sure to leave more room on the next one
#C16th #C17th hand #embroidery
16th century book page.
"Dead men shall rise again"
A book printed 1546, written by a prisoner in the tower of London, condemned to death in 1533.
I don't have more info, but it's worth posting just for that last line.
#c16th 🗃️
Google Books
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Arabic Translation of Euclid's Elements of Geometry, 1594.
Printed in Rome. I assume this was printed for export, or did everyone in Europe study Euclid in Arabic at the time?
🗃️ #c16th
Google Books
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