[shisasan]

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: July 1. Too tired. END ID]

[smsomah]

Scanned from the book Oman Adorned: A Portrait in Silver; 1997; Miranda Morris & Pauline Shelton

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Medieval book transport

You are looking at two ‘wraps’ (top), the outside and inside of a box (middle), and a leather satchel (bottom). What they share is not just their old age (they are all medieval), but also the purpose for which they were made: to transport a book from A to B. The actual reason for transporting books in these objects varied considerably. The wraps are late-medieval girdle books, which were hanged from the owner’s belt by the knot. The text inside - which was often of legal or religious nature - could be consulted quickly and easily: just unwrap it and read. The box (and the ninth-century book inside) had a more exotic use: the package functioned as a charm for good luck on the battlefield, where it was carried in front of the troops by a monk. The satchel, which also dates from the ninth century, was just a bag to transport a book while on the go - it was popular among monks. Read more about these fascinating devices in my blog post “Medieval Books on the Go” (here).  

Pics -  Wrap at top: Stockholm, Royal Library (16th century, source); Wrap below it: Yale, Beinecke Library, MS 84 (15th century, source); Box: Dublin, Royal, Irish Academy, D ii 3 (8th/9th century, source); Satchel: Dublin, Trinity, College, MS 52 (Book of Armagh, 9th century, source).

[the-smoking-lilly]

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Elaborate askos of native Italic form from the Greek colony of Canosa, Italy, 3rd Century BCE

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Dress

c. 1911-1913

Hillwood Museum

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Vladimir Archipovich Bondarenko

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giorgio armani spring 2027

[at0ms8]

i love you hagstone

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by lianamodonova

[transparentfossil]

Ancient Marine Life: Handcolored Fossils of Cephalopods and Corals, 1845

[thinkingimages]

Spare Arms, Hands, and Bones

Auguste Rodin. Undated.

© Musée Rodin

[smsomah]

The thalai, with the pendant known as chutti, that Tamil brides wear on their forehead. Scanned from the book Wedding Ceremonies: Ethnic Symbols, Costume and Rituals; 2001; Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone

[vintagehomecollection]

Spicy colours have been used to create elegance and cosiness in this interior. The English eighteenth-century campaign bed is canopied in a striped, warm sienna brown silk, lined with yellow and covered with patterned nineteenth-century brown chintz quilt... Designer: David Mlinaric

Color in Decoration, 1990

[theinvertedwomb]

Les Astronautes (1959) Chris Marker e Walerian Borowczyk

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Alan Meadows, 1940

photos by Carl Van Vechten