#midde ages

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Medieval Peasant’s Beef Stew

from Historical Italian Cooking

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Byzantine “Greek fire” hand grenades, 9th-11th century AD.

from Timeline Auctions

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Lull & Bruno | Frances Yates : Frances Yates : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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An assemblage of marvelous flora and fauna: the elephant, the dragon, and the mandrake root.  Illustration from a bestiary by Hugh of Fouilloy, mid-13th century.  British Library, MS Sloane 278, fol. 48v.

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Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a fifteenth century prayer book showing scenes for Easter. The verso (on the left) shows the crucifixion, and the recto (on the right) shows the resurrection. I love the rather busy border.

Now belonging to the British Library, this little book started life in the low countries. The scribe was Nicolas Spierinck, who signed and dated the book 1486.

Image source: British Library MS Harley 2943. Image declared as public domain on the British Library website.