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[portalibis]

The Dragon and the Woman clothed with the Sun

Alexander Minorita, Expositio in Apocalypsim, Germany 1249-1250

Cambridge University Library, MS Mm.5.31, fol. 76r

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[portalibis]

Rebis, literally “two things” is the final product of the alchemical Great Work, the Philosopher’s Stone, personifying the “union of opposites”, compositum de compositis (“Conjunction of compounds”): Male and Female, sulfur and mercury, light and darkness, day and night, Sun and Moon, King and Queen, active and passive, cold and hot qualities, dryness and humidity. After man has passed through the stages of decomposition and purification, separating opposite qualities, these qualities are again united in what is sometimes called the Divine Hermaphrodite or androgyne, the reconciliation of spirit and matter. As an indication of this, Rebis was depicted as a figure with one body and male and female heads, which corresponded to the Sun and Moon or the Red King and White Queen.

Art: Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Cod. mag. 142 (Leihgabe Leipziger Stadtbibliothek), c. 1792

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[speciesbarocus]

Speculum humanae salvationis (c. 1470).

[portalibis]

"Visita Interiora Terrae, Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam"

"Visit the interior of the earth, and by rectifying, you will find the hidden stone—the true medicine."

Sammelhandschrift mit alchemistischen Texten, 17th century

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[portalibis]

Planets in the manuscript: Astrologisch-astronomische Sammlung: Ms. germ. fol. 244, c. 1445

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[portalibis]

Narcissus, British Library, MS Harley 1766

[mioritic]

Henri Suso (1295–1366), Das Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit, manuscript probably made around 1480-1490

Stiftsbibliothek Einsiedeln, Codex 710 (322), f. 87v

[thingsfromthedirt]

Depictions of planets and their respective influences over human activities as seen in De Sphaera d'Este (from around 1470 or 1491)

Luna, the Moon

Jupiter

Saturn

Venus

Sol, the Sun

Mars

Mercury

[the-lady-and-the-unicorn]

Medieval dragons across Europe and the Middle East

[odessascottage]

Would you still love me if I was a wyrm?

[cuties-in-codices]

marginalia birds

from the llangattock hours, illuminated by willem vrelant, the master of the llangattock hours, the master of the llangattock epiphany, and other flemish artists in bruges, 1450s

source: Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig IX 7

[cuties-in-codices]

genealogical peacock (displaying coats of arms of members of the hainhofer family of augsburg)

double-page miniature from a heraldic manuscript (stammens-beschreibung des hainhoferischen geschlechts), augsburg, 1626

source: Augsburg, SuStB, 2 Cod Aug 14, fol. 5v-6r

[hildegards-abbey]

“Embroidered Panel with the Death of Blessed Verdiana Attavanti”

c1440, Florence, Italy. Housed at the V&A

[postmodernsoldier]

«Дьявол в спальне», пришедший осудить супружескую пару занимающуюся грехом не для зачатия детей, 15 век

Коллекция: Национальная библиотека Франции (BnF), Париж

[culturevulturette]

Easter Week is here!

[alliethelemon734]

depictions of christine de pizan from the book of the city of ladies

[portalibis]

103r Berthold Furtmeyr, full-page astrolabe with rotating disc for determining planetary hours, Cod. Pal. germ. 832, Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch — Regensburg, c. 1491

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[cuties-in-codices]

14th c. pheasant hunting trick (a pheasant being lured into a hunter's trap by its own reflection in a mirror, which it believes to be a particularly beautiful mating rival that it needs to fight)

illustration from a manuscript of henri de ferrières' hunting manual, le livre du roy modus et de la royne racio. paris, c. 1375-1400

source: Paris, BnF, Français 1297, fol. 88r ; for more context on the mirror trick see this blog entry by artifexinopere as well as this edition of ferrières hunting manual (pp. 283-286 for the pheasant chapter)