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| Tarot imagery and such |
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Posted by: Diane - 08-05-2017, 01:15 PM - Forum: Astrology & Astronomy
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Please, now... everyone stay CALM.
As Marco will know, I expect, there is astronomical imagery within the medieval paintings set on card, as well as in contemporary paintings on walls or in manuscripts.
Now, for various reasons, not least then-current fashions, we also find images relating to those put on card in other media. It is mainly studies of those other media which have produced the more scholarly books and papers.
But to consider paintings put on card, as on paper, during the fourteenth- or fifteenth- century is not an outrageous thing to do, even if the pictures were used for playing games, or .. whatever. Even prognostication.
One of the picture-cycles which has shown some clear iconographic links to images on cards (not only the shorter, tarot deck but the larger tarocchi) are those in the Shifanoia at Ferrara. And the d'Este were the ruling family there.
Another - which Aby Warburg spoke about in about 1912 - is in the old Meeting Hall in Padua. Often distinguished by being called 'il Salone'.
Which is a pretty long introduction to a picture of a lobster. 
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| [Trinity] Questions about Trinity MS script |
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Posted by: Koen G - 03-05-2017, 09:50 AM - Forum: Codicology and Paleography
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I've got some questions about the script:
- Does r sometimes look like 2 depending on the following vowel? And can this same 2 in isolation be used to mean "and"?
- When this "2" is merged with a "4", what does that mean?
- Does a superscript "u" just mean I have to insert it? For example "2 qtanarus" with a "u" on top of the q.
- I take it that a "9" as the end of a word is a generic ending marker. Is it correct that in the names of plants we can't really be sure what this is? For example, a "Greek" name for a plant is "lamb9". This could be lambis, lambus, lambos, lambes...?
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| [Trinity] Plant identification in Trinity College MS O.2.48 Apuleii Herbarium |
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Posted by: Koen G - 27-04-2017, 08:19 PM - Forum: Codicology and Paleography
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Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what the tree on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is? I've gotten used to the script a bit and I think I can make out;
The name of the tree is "Quibanos". The tree grows in "anglica"
- - then there's a bunch of abbreviations I don't understand yet - -
and then, I guess: the tree was brought into the island by sea from Ethiopia (??)
By the way, there is something special about reading an abbreviated text like this. I don't really read the letters but rather at a glance I recognize the "shape" of an abbreviation. Like it doesn't really matter whether they drop one letter more or less. The abbreviations are almost like markers for the plant's name, for where it's from... And the paragraph markers are also really handy for seeing immediately where a section starts about a new plant. I'm starting o get a better feel for certain gallow hypotheses that have been proposed before.
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