Maria of Burgundy on an allegorical sea voyage to her wedding with Maximilian I, attacked en route by Louis XI of France, represented as a #whale.
#medievalsky #historicalwhale
📖Jean Molinet, Le Nauffraige de la Pucelle (15th c.); BnF, Français 14980, f. 16r; gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
#Visboeck | Een in 1577 bij Saaftinge aangespoelde walvis, een orca en 2 andere afbeeldingen uit handschrift van Adriaen Coenen over zeewezens, 1579💧Alle 479 prachtige pagina’s kun je inzien via: www.kb.nl/ontdekken-be... Nationale Bibliotheek @kb.nl
Today, according to The Voyage of Saint Brendan, the saint and his brothers would have landed on the back of Jasconius the giant fish en route to finding the promised land of the saints.
Some manuscripts of this work incorporated planned illustrations, others had enthusiastic readers...
In 1626, a Cambridge fishwife sliced open a cod, only to find a gelatinous, half-dissolved manuscript inside. It was published the next year under the name "Vox Piscis or, the Bookfish." At this point, why not get your news from inside a dead fish? #earlymodern #bookfish archive.org/details/bim_...
Sensation am Meeresgrund: In Norwegen haben Archäologen eine 1.000 Jahre alte Walfalle entdeckt – massiv gebaut als etwa 25 Meter langes Steinband. Es ist der erste physische Beweis einer solchen Struktur (Bildergalerie). 🇳🇴
www.nordisch.info/archaeologie...
Thank you so much for thinking of me! Can‘t wait to read it 🐋
Ja! Ganz vielen Dank! 🤩
Sensationeller Fund in Telavåg: Überreste antiker Waljagd-Anlagen
During the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), a mandible, a scapula, and a rib from Stralsund were taken as war booty to Golčův Jeníkov (CZ). They can still be seen today in the Church of St. František Serafínský. 6/7
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📖Jaros, In Pommern gestrandete Wale, in: Baltische Studien (2023), pp. 107-122; Redman, Whales‘ Bones of Germany, Austria, Czech Republic&Switzerland, Teddington 2009
📸6/7: www.epochtimes.cz/2021/03/07/kosti-velryby-gronske-se-ocitly-na-vysocine-v-chramu-sv-frantiska-serafinskeho-v-golcove-jenikove
