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Book of Hours, Flanders 14th century.

Explore how medieval people viewed and valued cats in “Paws on Parchment,” a new exhibition at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, featuring feline-themed manuscripts and rare pawprints left by a 15th-century cat.

12th century carving, one of several reset in the north porch at Elmley Castle church. St Mary's at Elmley Castle, close to the bottom of Bredon Hill, is one of Worcestershire's more rewarding churches, situated in a delightful churchyard set back in a quiet corner of the village. Much of the present building is 15th century, though parts date from Norman and earlier times, shown by the herringbone masonry in the chancel and the quaint animal carvings in the porch. The building was restored...

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While working on my previous post on the possible relationship between Richard Pynson’s 1506 Kalender of Shepherdes and William Shakespeare’s Othello, I turned to the sources of the Kalender’s Vision of Lazarus. I checked Pynson against not only the French Compost et kalendrier des bergers, but also against the Ars Moriendi in general and L’Art […]

Lambertus de Sancto Audomaro , Liber Floridus Date d'édition : 1250-1275 Type : manuscrit Langue : Latin

Lynx gallery; The urine of the lynx hardens into a precious stone

“The snail and the skull [BL, Add 36684]”