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LJS 185 - Psalter leaves and Matthew leaf

Look at that! These are four leaves from a Coptic psalter written for the monastery of Saint Anthony on the Red Sea in Egypt, with two headings in Arabic and rubrication and simple ornamentation added in red ink on two leaves and green ink used on an initial on one leaf. 

If you want to see more, click here for the facsimile (or here for more information).

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Gunpowder demons

Remember, remember… that one time demons taught monks how to make gunpowder? Fireworks were guaranteed.

This illustration dates back to the 16th Century, before Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot, but the active ingredients are the same. You can see it in MS. Bodl. 181, De regimine principum.

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Marcel Proust - A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. Placard corrigé “Cahier violet N° 5” [x]

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Hausbuch der Mendelschen Zwölfbrüderstiftung Band 2 (1550). [x]

Someone disguised her as a man.

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Friday Flowers  6/16/2017 by Sonny Carter is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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Das Foto wurde von Carl-Günther Jastram am Haltepunkt Oberhafen aufgenommen. Der Blick geht nach Norden über die Deichtorhallen auf die City-Höfe. Rechts unter den Gleisen ist die Oberhafen-Kantine (nicht zu sehen). Links neben der Bahn ist heute der Lohsepark. Hier in etwa die Perspektive im Chronoscope Hamburg.  /via Angshasenarchiektur in ZeitOnline

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Rain

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Study of a Lady c. 1785 Black chalk and stump heightened with white, 485 x 312 mm Private collection

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Pentecost - Giotto di Bondone, c. 1300

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Friday Flowers  5/5/2017 by Sonny Carter is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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(via (32) There’s Something for Everyone at the World’s Largest Library - YouTube)

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Panorama von Hamburg. Total-Ansicht der Ruinen, nach dem Brande vm 6ten bis 8ten May 1842. | CC BY 3.0 Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg http://resolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de/goobi/PPN751394203

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(via Secret Knowledge—or a Hoax? | by Eamon Duffy | The New York Review of Books)

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Friday Flowers  3/31/2017 by Sonny Carter is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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Have you ever had something happen that you thought was out of your control? Long before women gained the right to vote, schoolgirls from the Franklin School worked to prevent something that many might have just let happen.  On December 6, 1837, the School Committee of Boston received a petition from thirty-four Franklin School girls expressing their dissatisfaction with the school board’s choice to move them from their school to the Johnson School.

 As you can see in the letter pictured, the girls grew up with this school and loved their teachers. They ended the petition with their most compelling argument, “But when we are further allowed to suggest to the honourable Board, that some of us, who reside South of our school, must inevitably be deprived not only of constant instruction from teachers we love, but afar, we fear will be deprived for a part of the year, of all knowledge derived from any of the Public Schools of our City…” Not only did these girls try to fight this decision, they also very clearly stated why they were unhappy with this choice and the consequences it would have on their education.

Letter from the Franklin School, 1837, 0008-B1 Proceedings of the City Council, Collection 0100.001, Boston City Archives

Blog post by Monica Haberny, City Archives Outreach Intern

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Friday Flowers3/10/2017 by Sonny Carter is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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Frühling:-)