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Medieval Latin paleography apprentice | decoding margins, resurrecting glyphs 📜
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✝️ Arma Christi Folio 106r from the manuscript Book of Hours, Use of Rome (shelfmark mssHM 1124) at the Huntington Library depicts the Risen Christ surrounded by the Emblems of the Passion , France, ca 1500 The Huntington "Domine labia mea aperies et os meum annuntiabit"
Lord of the Rings Daily “A traitor may betray himself and unwittingly do good"☀️ (The Return of the King)
"Poème sur la Passion", France, ca. 1530; made for King Francis I. The Morgan Beneath triple-winged Personification of Victory standing on cloud in sky, Louise of Savoy, with hands on kneeling figure, extending winged book toward Francis I of France.
Niccolo Soldo (Fisted By Foucault) #MedievalMoldavia "Ștefan Voivode, by the mercy of God ruler of the Land of Moldavia, son of Bogdan Voivode, has bound this Gospel in the monastery of Homor, in the year 6995...” (Tetraevangelium is kept in the treasury of the Putna Monastery in Romania) putna.ro/ro/tetraevangh…
Journal of Art in Society "E" Dream of the Magi: Matthew 2:12 "And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way". Salzburg Missal, Regensburg ca. 1478, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 15708 I, f. 63r