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Requiem with a marginal dragonfly book of hours, Bruges or Ghent 15th century.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 287, fol. 161v
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British Library, Additional 16577, detail of f. 44v (‘Detail of a caption framed by the curved tail of a dragon, at Shabbat Parah’). Festival prayer book, Italian rite. 3rd quarter of the 15th century
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Divina commedia.
Codex Altonensis (c. 1360).
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queck (in progress)
Inspired by this delightful illustration from the the Gorleston Psalter (1310-1324)
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best part of le morte is when malory stops the whole narrative to talk about his favourite barely relevant guy tristan and his wacky adventures for several hundred pages before cutting back to the original plot thread where it is later announced tristan and most of his friends died offscreen
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halberd night at the pub. everyone's having a good time and the halberds are clattering every time someone shifts a little in the space. suddenly, something stands out. that wasn't the iconic sound of a halberd clacking against a halberd. that was the sound of a glaive. unacceptable. thirty halberds crash down onto the same spot before the glaive-knave can even realise what just happened
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King Arthur and Guinevere
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Do any of my current grad student mutuals have institutional access to De Gruyter's website? And if so, would you be willing to download a few articles for me?
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Tristan and Iseult meet at the fountain, while King Mark, above, spies on them. Detail from an ivory casket panel, made by an unknown artist in Paris in the 1340s. Now in the Louvre.
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Illustration from Franklin’s Tale for Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales by W. Russell Flint (1913)
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King Mark Slew the Noble Knight Sir Tristram as He Sat Harping before His Lady La Belle Isolde, from The Boy’s King Arthur by N. C. Wyeth (1919)
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This flower motif appers on the tombstone of Blume, who lived in Speyer or as she probably called it, Schpira. We know from the inscription on the stone that she was the daughter of the scholar Jacob, and she passed away on the 30th of December in 1365. It's a well preserved jewish tombstone that is almost 700 years old!! Wow!
Here the flower ornamentation appears as a symbol reference to the name, since Blume means flower in Yiddish and German. Symbols referring to the name are not uncommon on tombstones, and may also appear in the form of the lion (Löw or Juda), the bird (Tziporah or Feygl) or the deer (Hirsch or Tzvi).
Source: hiddurmitzvahshop.etsy.com
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Anonymous asked:
do you have a list of the main/most common kingdoms/realms in arthurian literature ?
For this I would direct you toward The Arthurian Companion by Phyllis Ann Karr and The Arthurian Name Dictionary by Christopher W. Bruce.
They both describe many important locations and cite source texts in which they appear. You can then use keyword search to see how many times the name is used in the book to determine how common it is as it’ll be repeated in character descriptions. “Camelot” is mentioned 94 times in Companion and 160 times in Dictionary.
In the Dictionary, there’s a section of the introduction literally titled “Commonly Used Names” and lists some people, places, and things that’ll be repeated manifold, including locations such as Avalon, Camlann, Glastonbury, and Rome. These places won’t be given continuous description as the author assumes reader familiarity with them. So that’s a start on common kingdoms/realms for you.
Hope that helps. Take care!
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Mishneh Torah, 14th century, Spain