“Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat […].And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come.”.
#otd 1316 John I of France, called the Posthumous, died. Today this tomb in St. Denis commemorates the king who lived only a few days. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1154 died Adelheid of Savoy, Queen of France. She was buried St-Pierre de Montmartre - with a very early figurative representation on the tomb slab. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
Am teaching the transition from majuscule to minuscule scripts today in #palaeography. I had to write this slide out myself - wish there were more easy tools out there for comparing scripts in teaching (and looking forward to developing some with my team from April!).
#otd 1184 Beatrice of Burgundy, Queen of the Romans and Empress died. Shown here is the tomb slab of her tomb in Speyer today, which is shared with her daughter Agnes. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
Am loving Booksnake (https://tally.so/r/3qGPkY), a new app - currently in beta testing - for viewing #IIIF-enabled original documents as if they were virtually lying on a surface of your choice.
Here is the #Psalter of Queen Isabella of England (https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667782/#) from the Library of Congress. I was very pleased that I could leaf through the book while it was lying there, and zoom in/out! @medievodons@histodons
This looks very cool. I'd love to know if it'll be fully open source -- the NEH grant seems to imply that it will at least be partially opened up (https://apps.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=HAA-287859-22), but then they say "patent pending" on the website, which is typically incompatible with a wider open source release. I also didn't find a GitHub repo or anything like that.
Executed with his own sword? #otd 1336 Arnold III of Uissigheim died. His gravestone in the church of St. Laurentius in Uissigheim shows that he was beheaded; an inscription, now lost, is said to have stated that this was done with his own sword. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons@histodons