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Wonderful detail... I'm afraid though my warped sense of humour wants to put a caption on the last picture: "A woman of firm and instant decisions. If she's taking, 'yes' if she's giving, 'no'."
Commented Feb 2, 2014 on The Height of Fashion at Medieval manuscripts blog
The Height of Fashion
Along with the less-than-romantic scenes of butchery and betrayal, murder and mayhem (see our previous post Sex and Death in the Roman de la Rose), there are of course many miniatures in Harley MS 4425 which depict an idealised courtly world and its inhabitants. As well as serving as a narrativ...
The first thing that struck me was recollection of the old nursery rhyme, 'four-and-twenty tailors went to fight a snail' and I wondered if there was any connection. Now with the Lazarus thing I'm seeing a possibility of a tenuous connection as one of the explanations of the 24 tailors rhyme is that it was originally 9 and of course 9 tailors [tellers] make a man, the strokes tolled for a dead man on the bells...
Commented Sep 26, 2013 on Knight v Snail at Medieval manuscripts blog
Knight v Snail
Recently a group of us went into our manuscripts store to have a look at some medieval genealogical rolls. We were examining Royal MS 14 B V, an English roll from the last part of the 13th century that contains quite a lot of marginalia, when one of our post-medieval colleagues noticed a painti...
my hat is off to the decipherers, I can pick out some words here and there is all!
Commented Jul 13, 2013 on A Remarkable Tale of Manuscript Sleuthing: the Ely Farming Memoranda at Medieval manuscripts blog
A Remarkable Tale of Manuscript Sleuthing: the Ely Farming Memoranda
In a slim box in the manuscripts secure storage at The British Library are three parchment fragments, mounted side-by-side between two pieces of glass in a wooden frame. Two are about the length and width of a ruler, the other is almost the same length but twice as wide. On both sides of the p...
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