10-01-2017, 01:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-01-2017, 02:31 AM by VViews.
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Looking for something else I found an image described as "Table of significant events".
Physician's Almanac, BL Harley 2332, England, 1411-1412, f 20v.
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Is that a Thing in the bottom left corner?
It must have been self-explanatory or mnemonic for the author, as there is no accompanying text and it appears nowhere else in the Ms. The surrounding images all evoke important events such as the nativity, battles and the deaths of kings.
Note that the woman in the upper right corner is holding a distaff, and I don't know what that is meant to refer to. Is this object in the lower corner meant to be the spindle? Or... an enema? Or what?
ETA based on the numbers above it, the object marks an event that took place 63 years prior to the MS's manufacture in 1412, which gives a date of 1349. I have no idea which event is referred to. Wikipedia gives lots of Black death and earthquakes for You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., but nothing that might evoke this object.
Physician's Almanac, BL Harley 2332, England, 1411-1412, f 20v.
Is that a Thing in the bottom left corner?
It must have been self-explanatory or mnemonic for the author, as there is no accompanying text and it appears nowhere else in the Ms. The surrounding images all evoke important events such as the nativity, battles and the deaths of kings.
Note that the woman in the upper right corner is holding a distaff, and I don't know what that is meant to refer to. Is this object in the lower corner meant to be the spindle? Or... an enema? Or what?
ETA based on the numbers above it, the object marks an event that took place 63 years prior to the MS's manufacture in 1412, which gives a date of 1349. I have no idea which event is referred to. Wikipedia gives lots of Black death and earthquakes for You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., but nothing that might evoke this object.