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Baalam and the ass. Chapiteaux de Saulieu has these 1100s pieces.

Sad gold

The quaint old encyclopaedia of Bartholomew Anglicus, called, "The Properties of Things," defines gold and silver in an original way, according to the beliefs of this writer's day. He says of gold, that " in the composition there is more sadness of brimstone than of air and moisture of quicksilver, and therefore gold is more sad and heavy than silver."

#13th century

memories-of-ancients

Late gothic sword with ornate carved ivory hilt, Europe, 15th-16th century

from The National Museum of Denmark

Striped 14th-century gown with sassy chaperone

This is just an appreciation post.

This – Funerali di Santa Lucia – is a 1384 painting by Altichiero da Verona (1330–1390), at the Oratorio di San Giorgio, in Padua. A fresco, I guess. Oh, it is a UNESCO World Heritage. Read more at UNESCO's own page about it. I mean, get a load of this.

But, I am looking for personal details in all this, people, and their attire.

There is a man dressed in horizontal stripes. Looking super. When I made his portrait bigger, the chaperone sliding around the head, with the curls sticking out – it's a definite look.

Possibly dagged at the hem?

#14th century

San Giovanni, evangelista (Carlo Crivelli) 1470s

#15th century #Carlo Crivelli

How does memory work?

A new friend showed me a fragment of a painting with some clothes on it, to look at.

"Is that... a legend of S:t Ursula painting?"

"You're not seeing the whole picture, there are some ships in there."

"Definitely Ursula, let me check." Checked, and it was. I was chuffed. But I couldn't say why I knew the painting.

The picture was by Vittore Carpaccio, who made the Young Knight in Landscape a few years on.

It was this painting, from the S:t Ursula series.

These painters were generous with the details.

#15th century #italy #vittore carpaccio

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Hunting on the Lagoon by Vittore Carpaccio

beatricecenci

Vittore Carpaccio (Italian, 1465-1525/1526)

Sibilla

"Farinata" degli Uberti, a military man and a politician, very Ghibelline

Siena was a very ghibelline city, Florence a very guelph one.

This 1212-1264 person was in a battle between them.

Turns out, there were quite a few of those battles: enough to fill a Wikipedia category.

#13th century #italy

Loshultskanonen - the Loshult cannon

Kanonen laddades från mynningen och avfyrades genom att en glödande järnten eller träpinne fördes till fänghålet (en fin krutfylld kanal som

30mm calibre. 30 cm length. A sort of wild hand cannon. 1300s.

According to some Danish recreation of this item, it fires balls 50 m, and arrows 200 m. Penetrated 1mm steel.

#14th century

Condottiere, lived almost all of the 1300s.

Wore a cool cloak with buttons

#14th century #italy

Sy1500 began, we gathered six souls and more books, to a borrowed space, to plan and learn about the shirt-making research & creation project "Sew a 16th-century shirt".

I began "we don't have a teacher, we teach ourselves". Then, Anneke put her hand up and offered to be the teacher. She said "I've made shirts from this period, smocking and all, blackwork, too." She wasn't going to make one now, but would like to teach us to do it. Such generosity, we are surely favoured.

All brought snacks and we made some tea and then hit the 📚 books.

Anneke brought a copy of Livrustkammaren's publication on the Sture Shirts, measurements and all. Patterns on the extant garments. Very detailed. We also had art to look at, learning what different styles of shirt were paired with what other fashion.

A good time was had. In two weeks, same thing!

Have you made a 16th-century shirt?

Yes, and I'll show it to you

No, not yet

Voting ended onJan 22

#16th century #mysca

I learned that the work Carmina Regia was created by the trivium teacher of PETRARCA'S:

I read that Italian Wikipedia article after seeing the image later in this post.

Petrarch refused to write an obituary for his old teacher - because he was still mad that the guy had lost Cicero's work De Gloria. Classic Petrarch.

#14th century

Chatted with my brother about Canterbury Tales. Which led me to a medieval bestseller, if you will.

First, I looked up how many copies of Canterbury Tales are known.

> There are 84 manuscripts and four incunabula (printed before 1500) editions[4] of the work, which is more than for any other vernacular English literary text with the exception of Prick of Conscience

That is a lot of copies. But what's that last thing, pray?

> The Prick of Conscience is a Middle English poem dating from the first half of the fourteenth century promoting penitential reflection. It is, in terms of the number of surviving manuscripts, the most popular poem written in English before print, with over 130 known copies.

A bestselling poem! From the 1300s! Did you read it? Was it good?

Here's a modern edition with an introduction that had some context to the poem.

Once attributed to the renowned English mystic Richard Rolle, the fourteenth-century _Prik of Conscience_ appears in 130 separate medieval m

1863 edition of the poem, which is rather long. From archive.org:

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

The preface of the book had lots of language teaching, on old words, styles of writing the English of that time.

#14th century #geoffrey chaucer #poetry

This could be you in 2026, so join my local study group in Malmö, Sweden, as we "Sy en 1500-talsskjorta" (En: Sew a 16th-century shirt).

I'll probably post progress, notes, images, or link to related articles. To mark it with something, I pick #sy1500 as the colloquial hashtag.

Blackwork, but in red. And edged in red thread, too. The hat, a balzo.

#16th century #mysca #hemd #blackwork

A 12th-century illustration of a revolving bookcase for Buddhist scriptures as depicted in Li Jie's architectural treatise the Yingzao Fashi.

I came across this when following a link that said "book press" and led to the bookcase article on Wikipedia. Not sure yet if a book press can ever mean bookcase.

#12th century

Saint Jerome in His Study (Antonello da Messina) - Wikipedia

The light in this image is amazing. See if you can locate a reproduction where the shade and light comes through. It's a lot of work done to make the different sources of light work out.

I saw this in a book, and wanted to learn more - so I read the Wikipedia article, and I was able to use the book as a reference to a "citation needed" in there. Nice!

#antonello da messina #15th century

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