A MEDIEVAL BESTIARY (Central Or Northern England, 1210-1220)

A MEDIEVAL BESTIARY (Central or northern England, 1210-1220)

A bestiary is a book of real and imaginary beasts, though its subjects can include plants and even rocks. It combined descriptions of the physical nature and habits of animals and includedthe moral and spiritual significance of these characteristics.

Produced in the first decade of the 13th century, this manuscript contains one of the first bestiaries to feature vivid paintings. They are set on gold grounds and in colorful frames instead of the line-drawn renderings used in earlier works of this type. These lavish illuminations would have made this a costly book to produce so it was likely made for an aristocrat, or royal, owner who could read Latin or had a chaplain who could do so.

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Andrew Davidson

Witchtober Day 8: Mushroom

Tapestries by Silvia Heyden

support group for guys who don’t have tiktok for a reason but are slowly watching all other apps turn into tiktok

Every knitting website I’ve ever read, increasingly desperate: We know you don’t want to swatch. We know you just want to cast on and start knitting. But we cannot overstate the importance of swatching, just take the time to do it instead of just assuming it’ll be fine

Me, merrily casting on: ehhh it’ll probably be fine