Dunnottar Castle
March 3, 2012
March 3, 2012
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Dunnottar Castle, Scotland (by michael prince)
Dunnottar Castle (from Scottish Gaelic Dùn Fhoithear, “fort on the shelving slope”[1]) is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about two miles (3 km) south of Stonehaven. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th–16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been an early fortress of the Dark Ages. (wikipedia)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m09ljt3KpF1qb0bzxo1_500.jpg)
Dunnottar Castle, Scotland (by michael prince)
Dunnottar Castle (from Scottish Gaelic Dùn Fhoithear, “fort on the shelving slope”[1]) is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about two miles (3 km) south of Stonehaven. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th–16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been an early fortress of the Dark Ages. (wikipedia)
February 26, 2012
Three monks singing
London BL - Stowe 12 f. 195
(unfortunately this is all the identification info given on the flickr site- would love to know more about the manuscript from which this and other such illuminations are taken)
February 25, 2012
![Saint Bernard de Menthon et le diable (Titivillus)Horae ad usum romanum - Heures de Louis de Savoie (1445-60) - Latin 9473 fol-10v
The Latin text reads as follows:Septem versus sancti Bernardi Illumina oculos meos ne umquam obdormiam in morte nequando dicat inimicus meus prevalui adversus eum. In manus tuas Domine com {mendo spiritum meum}Source [Ps.12, 4-5] …](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzx915K3an1qacehho1_1280.jpg)
Saint Bernard de Menthon et le diable (Titivillus)
Horae ad usum romanum - Heures de Louis de Savoie (1445-60) - Latin 9473 fol-10v
The Latin text reads as follows:
Septem versus sancti Bernardi
Illumina oculos meos ne umquam obdormiam in morte nequando dicat inimicus meus prevalui adversus eum. In manus tuas Domine com {mendo spiritum meum}
Source [Ps.12, 4-5] …
January 29, 2012
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is unique in Britain’s heritage; an outstanding treasure of the medieval world, it records how thirteenth-century scholars interpreted the world in spiritual as well as geographical terms.
The map bears the name of its author ‘Richard of Haldingham or Lafford’ (Holdingham and Sleaford in Lincolnshire). Recent research suggests a date of about 1300 for the creation of the map.
Mappa Mundi is drawn on a single sheet of vellum (calf skin) measuring 64” by 52” (1.58 x 1.33 metres), tapering towards the top with a rounded apex. The geographical material of the map is contained within a circle measuring 52” in diameter and reflects the thinking of the medieval church with Jerusalem at the centre of the world.
Superimposed on to the continents are drawings of the history of humankind and the marvels of the natural world. These 500 or so drawings include of around 420 cities and towns, 15 Biblical events, 33 plants, animals, birds and strange creatures, 32 images of the peoples of the world and 8 pictures from classical mythology.
(Source: wine-loving-vagabond)
January 12, 2012
Of the thousands of cultural portrayals of Joan of Arc over the years one of the earliest was Les Vigiles de Charles VII by Martial d’Auvergne written from 1477 to 1483 as a liturgical poem about the Hundred Years War. The original manuscript is now held by the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, France and contained within it are many “miniature portraits” depicting significant events in the career of Joan of Arc.
(via Joan of Arc - Maid of Heaven - Les Vigiles de Charles VII)
(via centuriespast)
December 23, 2011
Jugglers and Acrobats. Detail.
From: Mittelalterliches Hausbuch von Schloss Wolfegg.
For over 300 years this manuscript has been kept in the collection of the Princes of Waldburg Wolfegg at Schloss Wolfegg near Ravensburg, Germany and it is only now (1998) that it has become accessible to the public.
December 22, 2011
On this day (December 21, 1118) Thomas Becket was born
He was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the RomanCatholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict with Henry II of England over the rights and privileges of the Church and was assassinated by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Soon after the death of Thomas Becket, Pope Alexander IIIcanonized him.
image: Becket enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury from a Nottingham Alabaster in the Victoria & Albert Museum
(via cassandra879)
November 18, 2011
In the early Middle Ages, time was first marked down the length of a candle in hourly increments. Next came large hour glasses, which were only good for an hour…or two.
Then, Brother Gerbert, who later became Pope Sylvester II, invented a simple mechanism in 966 that rang bells at regular intervals throughout the day to call his brethren to prayer. It was the beginning of mechanical clocks as we know them today.
image: Treaty on the geometry of Pope Sylvester II, Bavaria 12th century. Schoenberg collection.
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November 15, 2011
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