AaronM

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I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order. https://www.cokldb.org/ https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/

six lines of humanist text in a pale brown/pink ink in a single column. The text starts with a larger letter P in the margin
"Frog of Righteousness" by Emily K. https://www.emilyk.art/product/tzefardea-tzedek-frog-of-righteousness-print/
A small gray cat curled up within the bounds of a rainbow stuffed snake
A small fan of bookmark cards sitting on a piece of marbled paper. Each card has a scallop shell and says CoKL and the url www.cokldb.org
A crop of a page of humanist script. There is a large G at top left, gold over blue ground with whitework. The text begins, Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... with several mistakes
Vitruuis de Architectura prologus incipit written in a red humanist hand
a small crop from the calendar of a Book of Hours showing St. Francis receiving the stigmata. The kneeling saint is in an architectural frame with a small crucified Christ in the top right. Lines of red trace the connection between the wounds on the crucifix and Francis
a 16th C cursive hand in 4 lines
A four panel calvin and hobbs cartoon where he's asking his father to read him the Voynich manuscript at bedtime. It ends with Calvin saying "Wow the story was different that time" and Hobbes speaking Voynichese
f.2v from Smith College Codex 274. It contains the second part of the calendar from February, with evidence of the KL on recto being excised and later replaced
f.34r from Smith College Codex 274. The start of a psalm, a large miniature of King David kneeling with his harp before him and an elaborate border. Four lines of text in a gothic hand starting with a 3-line illuminated D
A page from a book of hours with the start of the calendar of June. Has several feasts named jn a gothic rotunda hand, some red and some black. The KL at the top is two lines and gold over dark green
A page from a manuscript with a single column of highly abbreviated gothic text. At the top there is a 2-line tall elaborate letter U, to start the word "Urina"
a crop of f.2v from Barb.lat.541. There is a single column of late Ottonian/Caroline minuscule with three words underlined in purple. Many words are abbreviated
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A page from a Book of Hours, the calendar for the first half of June. There is a larger KL in red and blue at top, with three lines of red text above a sparse calendar. All written in an Italian rotunda gothic. From Houghton Library 2020Hem-82
Book of Hours calendar page for the first half of November from Houghton 2020HEM-79. A nearly empty calendar with only 2 entries, Leonard in black and Martin in red. Notably missing is the feast of All Saints, despite the previous page having the Vigil listed
The recto page from a manuscript, Houghton 2020HEM-79. There is a miniature of the BVM and child in a large initial O, under several lines of gold text. There are multi-color floral borders with an angel in the bottom center.
A flyer for a local billionaires son's trying to raise campaign funds to be Mayor of Boston. There is the seal of the city, over some oddly centered sans-serif text. At the bottom is a note about "suggested contribution", all above a lovely rendition of the skyline of New York city, with the Chrysler and Empire State buildings clearly visible
four lines of text in a Humanist hand. They read (the initial E has been cropped) "Go omne officio ac potius ac potius..." the duplication of "ac potius" has small dots under it to indicate deletion.
The cover of a large book published by the Vatican in 2000. “Codices Comboniani Aethiopici”
Images of three manuscript leaves stitched together in photoshop. The leftmost image, is a recto, and is blank, but some ruling and bleed-through of border decorations and a central image of a cross in a circle. In the middle is a mostly blank page with a clearer image transfer of the circle-with-cross. On the right is a page of brown text in a small gothic hand. There is no trace of the source of the transferred borders or cross image. From Houghton Library 2020HEM-79
The top of a page of 17th c cursive. In all caps it reads "CONCLAVE" and below that, in normal case, "In quo S. D. N. Urbanus VIII ex nova eligendi lege ad summum Pontificatum evectus est". The ink has burned the paper, both on this side leaving a shadow around each letter, and on the reverse, leaving lines of brown letterish things across the page
An adult hand holding a small manuscript, bound in green velvet with metal corners, a central diamond metal boss, and 2 metal clasps, one missing
f.2r from BAV Chig.II.A.44. A page of 17th c cursive, with a location and date at the top. The salutation is in Italian, but the rest consists of a stream of numbers, representing the main text in some sort of cypher
Page f.12v from Vat.gr.394. Three are two columns of minuscule greek on the bottom 1/2 of the page, and 4 frames of pictures at the top. To the right of the 4-frames are several small images outside the margin, and at the top there is a figure of Jesus in a blue mandorla
A page of faux gothic script, with floral borders on the right and bottom sides. F.4r from Sire.O.4
A byzantine miniature of a scribe sitting with a quill in hand before a wiring desk. There is an architectural background and a door at the right with a man entering through a red curtain
f.1v from Capp.Sist.Diari.140. A woman is depicted with an ox yoke on her back, barefoot in nettles. A lute and a book of music sit on the ground before her
A page from a book of hours with the calendar for the first part of April. There are only two saints listed. To the left there are columns for Golden Numerals, Dominical letters and the parts for Roman dating
A cartoon featuring the invading Gauls being detected and announced by a goose, and the Romans celebrating this by founding a temple in honor of Juno, to whom geese were sacred
Top of the title page in 18th C script. There is a main title in the middle "Diario de Cantori della Cappella Pontificia Dell'Anno MDCCLXII" and then in a later hand above "Narrazione della Controversia In tre tomi, Tomo 2o"
a page of text from a calendar in a Book of Hours. There are golden numbers, then dominical letters, then roman dating in columns to the left, and then alternating names in red, pink, and occasionally gold and blue in the main block of text. The second name, perhaps Saint Ynoxin has been highlited
A page of 17th C roman block text, the top few lines in red. It is bound with fabric tape obscuring most of the text, and the horizontal band has the annotation "Ottobre". BAV Bonc.O.9 f.1r
Recto of Houghton Typ 701. Two columns of text in a Bari-type Beneventan hand. There are three lines of music towards the bottom of the left column, before the start of a new block of text with an exhausted Ox as the I for "In illo tempore". Damage and trimming to the margins
f.22r from Ott.lat.1366. There is a single column of text with a large initial H three lines from the top on the left
A page of text, in a single column, with some red headings in the text, many interlinear comments, and one marginal gloss. From f.2v of Ott.lat.1366
a full page miniature in a medieval style with St francis talking to the birds. There is a grame with floral decorations
A large poster image describing the CoKL database. There is text and a large cockle shell at top, with several screen images of the database system below. One shows entries for St. Aldheim, another compares the calendars of five manuscripts, etc
a black and white photograph of an egyptian bas releif. There are several short columns of hieroglyphics over a scene of two adult men being circumcised
The start of the 96 voice canon "The knot of solomon". There is a square engraving of The Coronation of the Virgin at the top, a diagram of the knot with interlacing musical staves in the middle, and a paragraph of text in 17th C script at the bottom. All is within a simple double line border
A green, red and yellow wash illusrtration of an Ox looking directly out of the page, 11th C script to the right
An image of two people, one sitting in a chair, one kneeling, within a gothic frame. From Urb.lat.376, f.101r
the last folio of a manuscript, with the last four lines of a 16th C hand at top, and then a scribal colophon with date in the middle. At the bottom is a later owners inscription
Part of the a devotional calendar showing the feasts for mid April in a small gothic hand. Houghton 2020HEM-56
an opening of a very small 15th C Italian Book of Hours, both pages have miniatures of Jesus
Two lines of 13th script beneath a partial line of 11th C calligraphy. It describes, in latin, the date of a total solar eclipse
A page of hebrew starting with a large, elaborate מלד From the second volume of the Dresden Machzor
A page of gothic rotunda text with a floral border on the left and a small 2-line illuminated initial D. From Houghton Library 2020HEM-76
A left hand in a blue vinyl glove holding a small manuscript in a silver binding set with many orange stones.
Bluesky notification that a user called “Vatican Digital Services” has followed
a screenshot from Amazon's Cloudformation documentation, showing the PORT options for the DBCluster object
The start of a text in a 15th C humanist script, there is a brown ink T, 6 lines high
A map of 1st century gaul, with cisalpine gaul outlined, and transalpine gaul in the colors of the trans flag
A cartoon in latin