Screenshot of a c.1440 recipe for 'Chardewardon', a dish of pulped pears flavoured with spices and thickened with egg yolks.
Anyone for 'Chardewardon' or 'Chare de Wardon'?
This #C15th dish of cooked, pulped pears is spiced & (optionally) thickened with 'yolkys of eyroun'; egg yolks to you & me.
Admittedly the #recipe might need a bit of interpretation. I've given it my best shot:
orchardnotes.com/2025/01/12/t...
Two mermaids, one with eyes in her back and another, faceless, with a fanged mouth in her chest. Image Attribution: From the British Library archives Shelfmark: IB.344, f.337v
Yet another unrealistic beauty standard for women...
#c15th #rarebooks #medievalmanuscript #mermaid 📜 🗃️ 📚
From the Ortus Sanitatis by Jacobus Meydenbach, 1491
"The Visitation" (Fols. 39v–40r) features two women, dressed in blue gowns and gold robes.
Penitential Psalms and Litany (continuation) (Fols. 80v–81r). Text of silver and gold is offset with green initials and surrounded with a floral border, set against a blue field.
"Mass of the Virgin" (Fols. 22v–23r). A large gold initial against a green field and a small black and gold dragon are key features of this folio.
"Massacre of the Innocents" (Fols. 62v–63r) A miniature depicting children being taken from women in front of a king. Floral border against a blue field.
The extraordinary Black Hours, a medieval Book of Hours created in Bruges, Belgium around 1470. The vellum, dyed black, contrasts with a limited color palette of gold, blue, rose, green, gray, and white.
Morgan Library & Museum (MS M.493)
#medievalmanuscript #oldbook #c15th #skystorians 📚 🗃️ 📜
