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Magic scroll
Ethiopia
Early 19th century
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Posted on February 21, 2011 via ☽ I howl at the rising moon ☾ with 251 notes
Source: loupgarou
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Dostoyevsky’s notes for chapter 5 of The Brothers Karamazov
Posted on February 21, 2011 via printed&bound with 112 notes
Source: printedandbound
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One-eyed Odin with his two ravens Huginn (from Old Norse ”thought”) and Muninn (Old Norse “memory” or “mind”)
From the 18th century Icelandic manuscript SAM 66 in the care of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland
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Page 21 of Computus Runicus
Posted on August 20, 2010 via DCCCLXXXVIII with 358 notes
Source: orlan
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[Autograph of Elizabeth Gillin], title page, c. 1648, via Beinecke Library](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5nlotQJMM1qzgcm2o1_500.jpg)
[Autograph of Elizabeth Gillin], title page, c. 1648, via Beinecke Library
Posted on August 20, 2010 via The Ship That Flew with 32 notes
Source: theshipthatflew
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Posted on August 20, 2010 via chanel no. fly with 24 notes
Source: cocoroachchanel
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Reynard the Fox as Pope and Antichrist
Colored woodcut, German (c.1470-80) -
Posted on April 27, 2010 via Rare bird with 30 notes
Source: etsy.com
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(via simplesue)
Posted on April 21, 2010 via Step into my Attic with 53 notes
Source: simplesue
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Picture of stocks.The British Library, ms. Roy.10.E.IV f.187 This is a good illustration of the stocks, although it is very unlikely that a monk or a nun was ever put in them, and certainly not together. More likely, the artist was having fun at their expense.
Posted on March 27, 2010 via Medieval with 18 notes
Source: nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Calendar
Hebrew Bible Spain, Tudela, XIIIe century Paris, BNF, Department of Manuscripts, Hebrew 20, fol. 8Posted on March 27, 2010 via COULEURS with 99 notes
Source: yama-bato
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Medieval binding fragment, Yale Law Library
Posted on March 27, 2010 via Libraryland with 18 notes
Source: libraryland
Painter, illustrator, maker of clocks & teller of tales, who travelled in a house on wheels to the edge of Dartmoor and now sits there amongst books and paint finding beauty in otherness..
This will be a sketchbook of ideas, visuals to inspire, and snippets from my own journey.
http://intothehermitage.blogspot.com
