Kathleen McCallum

Your medieval mid-week pick-me-up ✨ Bodleian Library MS Douce 62 ✨ Book of Hours, France ca 1400-1410

Another pothead on the internet - 15th century, BnF Latin 919, f. 116r

Another day, another selection of unhinged-yet-charming medieval hybrids from our current manuscript ✨ Bodleian Library MS Douce 62 ✨ Book of Hours, France ca 1400-1410

プエノスアイレスでの「本屋の夜」というイベント。20万人が集まり4億ドルの経済効果。 世界一クールな街、神保町も参考にして良いかも！？

The 14th century is often considered one of the worst centuries in history. Nowhere was this more evident than on the battlefield where often only one toilet stall was made available for each side - 14th century, British Library, Royal MS 16 G VI, f. 40v

The Yates Thompson Divine Comedy has been returned online. Commissioned by Alfonso V, King of Aragon, Naples and Sicily, this copy of Dante's work has illuminations on every single page (Yates Thompson MS 36) Consult the whole manuscript online now: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-00…

The key to art-making is to do stuff that amuses you. Everyone else is invited to watch

What else is it missing? 😂

Equinox blessings ✨🌿🪨🌞

NEW ESSAY — “Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History” — In early modern Europe, patients started appearing in medical records with a particular ailment: a firm belief that they were made of glass. Tamara Sanderson explores: publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-and…

Hairstyle hack

Antique coal scuttle (also known as a purdonium), a common Victorian-era piece used for storing and dispensing coal for a fireplace.  This specific design is a Gothic Revival or Arts & Crafts style, typically dating from the late 19th century (circa 1880–1890).

Les mains d'or Celles du restaurateur Jacques Sicre qui a consacré près de 200 heures au Bréviaire de Charles V. Ce trésor national du XIVe siècle a été acquis par la BNF grâce à un appel aux dons.

Which one is your favorite? #medieval #manuscripts Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale d'étude et de conservation, 138 (13th-century French pontifical)

Robin Williams explaining how golf was invented remains one of the greatest stand-up bits ever recorded

This month's @explorearchives theme is #Wildlife. We found these drawings of beasts in a document relating to Stoke Park in Hampshire, dated 1556 🐲 🐉

I am ✨ obsessed ✨ with this manuscript and equally ✨ obsessed ✨ with the enthusiasm you all have for medieval manuscript illustrations A few more from our current manuscript, Bodleian Library MS Douce 62 Book of Hours, France ca 1400-1410

Does anyone know if this is the. same telling of "Unicorn of Death" @BLMedieval Stowe MS 17 f 84v MS Additional 37049, f. 19v ... which depicts a symbolic scene where a unicorn represents Death pursuing a man in a tree (symbolizing human life), with elements like mice (day and night) gnawing the trunk, serpents for the four elements, and a dragon waiting below. h/tChantry Westwell. @BLMedieval

A tour of the Tower Today's blogpost investigates the earliest detailed view of the Tower of London. No Beefeaters or ravens in sight, but Traitor's Gate is prominently shown! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

A little Irish luck… and a lot of nightmare fuel ☘️