Abbess Hilde

Of Eibingen Abbey, Cloister on the Rhine (trading manuscripts and gossip with Farnham Monastery)

[hildegards-abbey]

Gospel text

The Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero D IV) c.715-720, Northumberland.

[kilgoretrout-stan]

spiritually i am this 15th century german monk with cool ass sunglasses and 3 d6s

[hildegards-abbey]

thinking of the Side Wound…

[hildegards-abbey]

Man writing

Book of Hours, c1405-1415, France, (MSL/1902/1646(Reid 4)), housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

[ser-william-the-third]

It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your squires are?

[medievalsquire]

the monastery bells started ringing at midnight and now my knight is putting on armor with the expression of a man who knows exactly what that means. i do not know what that means

[useless-catalanfacts]

This is a page from a Medieval glossary, a list of words followed by a synonym or an explanation of their meaning. Glossaries are the ancestors of dictionaries, the difference is that dictionaries aim to include all the words in a language, while glossaries were/are made to help students understand a specific Latin text that they studied in school, listing the difficult or outdated words from that text.

The page in this photo is the last surviving page of a glossary that was copied around the year 900 probably to be used in the Barcelona Cathedral's school. It's kept in the Diocesan Archive of Barcelona (Catalonia).

Image source.

[upennmanuscripts]

To welcome the new year, we gift you January calendar pages from several of Penn's books of hours - illustrating the variety of books we have in our collection. Here's to 2026, may it be better than the year that came before.

[hildegards-abbey]

Leaves from a choirbook

Choirbook, c1275, Italy, (E.372, 375-1911), housed at the Victoria and Albert museum.

[medievalsquire]

beginning to think the reason old knights survive so long is because they keep sending younger men to check dangerous noises first

[finnegeanscake]

Knightposting this princessposting that WHO IS TILLING THE FIELDS

[nawael-lirit-thenephilim]

Hey, I'm tending to the sheep okay! I CAN'T DO EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE

[finnegeanscake]

Knightposting this princessposting that WHO IS TILLING THE FIELDS

[siblingmar]

Woe that I am out of wool, for my humors are sorely imbalanced and spinning is the best way to mend that.

(The doctors prescribe bloodletting, but that is because they know not the joy of using a drop spindle.)

[brothercynewulf]

I be'eth at the convent I be'eth at the monastery I be'eth at the combination double monastery

[sister-rosalie]

Attention, brethren and townsfolk!

Farnham shall be hosting a fair on the day of St. Barnabas (June 11th for the laypeople who may be unaware), and of course we shall wish to display the fine work of the monastery on this day, so all the residents of the monastery are invited on this day to, if they are so inclined, display some of their work, be it embroidery, spinning, illuminations, or something else. Laypeople are of course also invited to display their work at the fair, as are travelers from outside of Farnham if they have art of a ecclastical/medieval nature!

It is requested that those displaying their works label them with “#farnham town fair”, for the aid of organization and so that a collected list can be made of all of the works displayed

[pr0digus]

[emilyscartoons]

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