#paleography

[nyxshadowhawk]

Diagrams from a thirteenth-century version of the Ars Notoria.

[makairodonx]

An assortment of sketches I’ve made of the ecology and fauna of the Cenomianian (100-93 mya)-aged Kem Kem Beds fauna of Morocco and Algeria

[pneumaturgo]

Nordic manuscripts

[frogshunnedshadows]

[gcballet]

"O my Soul how many & various are ye [no way she can't possibly be saying what that looks like] yt have crouded upon my Mind"

[thewitcheswaag]

I love picking up hobbies that help with understanding history 🖋️

[the-mad-woman-in-the-attic]

I am perfectly willing to accept a story's outright supernatural elements, but a fifteenth-century manuscript written in semiuncial script might actually be too much of a stretch for my willing suspension of disbelief.

[elvenrunes]

I carved a little oracle bone stamp!

Stamp before and after use:

(This isn't meant to be historically accurate or grammatiaclly correct I just wanted to carve cool characters)