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Lady of the Velvet Orb 🔴

@scriptura245602

⚪Historian focusing on Middle Ages.

Medieval Latin paleography apprentice | decoding margins, resurrecting glyphs 📜

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Good morning! Flute Concerto by Frederick the Great in Sanssouci. "Musical evening in an 18th century palace" Painting made by the German artist Adolph von Menzel in 1852 In motion with artificial intelligence #music "Badinerie BWV 1067" by Johann Sebastian Bach. 🎥Verónica Juan

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The opening of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) didn’t just sell the movie—it sold the entire series. That prologue instantly establishes Middle-earth as vast, magical, and epic.

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A book that was much more influential on scholarship of witchcraft in the 20th century than it was on actual witch-trials in the 15th- or 16th-centuries - Nider's 'Formicarius' was the much more influential text in reality

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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"

✝️ 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
<a href="/TheHuntington/">The Huntington</a> 
"Domine labia mea aperies et os meum annuntiabit"
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"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.

"Poème sur la Passion", France, ca. 1530; made for King Francis I.
<a href="/MorganLibrary/">The Morgan</a> 
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.
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Gregor Baci (second half of the 16th century, unknown painter). Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck. "Gregor Baxi Ung. Nob." According to legend Baxi, a Hungarian hussar, survived for some time after battle wound, possibly sustained during a conflict with the Ottomans.

Gregor Baci (second half of the 16th century, unknown painter). Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck.
"Gregor Baxi Ung. Nob."
According to legend Baxi, a Hungarian hussar, survived for some time after battle wound, possibly sustained during a conflict with the Ottomans.
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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…

<a href="/FistedFoucault/">Niccolo Soldo (Fisted By Foucault)</a> #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…
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🤞Computus digitorum, or the art of counting with fingers. Digital computus is a very ancient technique that integrates the learning of numbers, the practice of arithmetic, or the calculation of dates. "De computo" by Raban Maur, 13th century. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.

🤞Computus digitorum, or the art of counting with fingers.  
Digital computus is a very ancient technique that integrates the learning of numbers, the practice of arithmetic, or the calculation of dates.
"De computo" by Raban Maur, 13th century. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
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Back in the 12th century, French sculptor Gislebertus carved this angel as (s)he appears to the three Magi as they dream, waking one with the delicate touch of a finger, and pointing her other forefinger toward the Bethlehem star (Cathedral of St Lazare, Autun)

Back in the 12th century, French sculptor Gislebertus carved this angel as (s)he appears to the three Magi as they dream, waking one with the delicate touch of a finger, and pointing her other forefinger toward the Bethlehem star (Cathedral of St Lazare, Autun)
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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

<a href="/artinsociety/">Journal of Art in Society</a> "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, <a href="/bsb_muenchen/">Bayerische Staatsbibliothek</a> 
 15708 I, f. 63r