Sometimes I too feel ‘misbound but perfect’, Francis Jenkinson. Written in a copy of Gaspar Ens’s book on Dutch discoveries in the New World (Cologne, 1612). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social N*.5.51(G).
Behold the hole in the parchment!
MS Dd.4.17; Books of Hours; 14th Century C.E.; East Anglia;
f.36v @camdiglib.bsky.social
For #SuperbOwlSunday a.gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.
Photo: Louvre, Paris
Whenever you're trying to study, there's always some fool in a wheelbarrow making a noise.
BL Harley MS 3487; Aristotle, Libri naturales; 13th century; England; f.22v
doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century
Manuscript was decorated by the cleric Wandalgarius who leaves his mark here beneath a crowned lawgiver:
"Uandalgarius fecit hec"
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 731; Lex Romana Visigothorum, Lex Salica, Lex Alamannorum; 793 CE; Lyon; p.234
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
