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165d

Only 4 #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week28.html Contains: stuff about 16th C Ecclesiastical Hungary, the case for canonization of Philip Benizi, a musical setting of Psalm 149, and a 1705 dissertation on the Column of Antonius Pius.
#Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons @bookhistodons

A page of music in dark brown ink from f.2v of Capp.Sist.357. There are no lyrics, but 18th C musical notation covering the entire page

f.8v from Barb.lat.2066, a page of pretty but impossible to read 16th C cursive in a single column

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184d

Only a bare 13 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week25.html
Includes a few more late musical volumes from the Sistine, some papal briefs, a musical about St. Boniface written by pope Clement IX, and more
@medievodons @bookhistodons #Medieval #Medievodons

A page of text from a sermon from Vat.lat.11446, f.47r. It has a single column of black text in a strange hybrid hand, and a large red L to start the second paragraph

A page of plainchant music from Capp.Sist.440, f.4v. It has five staves of square notes on red staff lines, with a block of roman text in the middle, in red and black. There are Respond symbols on the right

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184d

Schyr Hanry myssit the noble king…

Robert I, King of Scots, killed Sir Henry de Bohun in single combat on the first day of the Battle of Bannockburn #OTD, 23 June 1314. The epic vernacular poem “The Brus” by John Barbour (c.1320–1395) describes the event

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https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/aboutus/resources/stella/projects/starn/poetry/the-brus/book-12/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage

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Image description: “Bruce and de Bohun”, by John Duncan (1866–1945), Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum. King Robert I, wearing chain mail, with a gold circlet around his helmet, and a flowing red-gold cloak and a surcoat bearing the Scottish lion rampant (red, on a yellow background) , stands up in the stirrups of the grey horse he is riding. He holds the reins tightly in his left hand and wields a battle-axe in his right. Sir Henry de Bohun, with golden plate armour and a flowing red cloth tied to his helm, rides past, his long lance missing the king. He is crouched low, almost seeming to bow, his head lined up for the blow from the king's axe.

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183d

#OTD, 24 June, in 1314, the Scottish army under King Robert I destroyed a much larger English invasion force at Bannockburn, in one of the most decisive battles in medieval history. In 1793 Robert Burns composed “Scots Wha Hae”, originally entitled “Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn”

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#Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #14thcentury #medieval #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns

Poem: "Scots Wha Hae", by Robert Burns

(tune: Hey, Tutti Tatie)

Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome to your gory bed‍‍
‍‍Or to victorie!

Now’s the day, and now’s the hour:
See the front o’ battle lour,
See approach proud Edward’s power— ‍‍
‍‍Chains and slaverie!

Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha can fill a coward’s grave?
Wha sae base as be a slave?—‍‍
‍‍Let him turn, and flee!

Wha for Scotland’s king and law
Freedom’s sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand or freeman fa’, ‍‍
‍‍Let him follow me!

By Oppression’s woes and pains,
By your sons in servile chains,
We will drain our dearest veins ‍‍
‍‍But they shall be free!

Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty’s in every blow!—
‍‍Let us do or die!

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142d

Only 10 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week31.html
Inc. 19th C Palestrina MS copies, a Mass setting in print by Borja, 17th C papal records, a 14th c Missal, some Orations, Sonnets Madrigals, and a bit more!
@medievodons @bookhistodons #Medieval #Medievodons

a page of missal in two columns of 14th C gothic. There is a line of music at the top left, and a large crucifixion scene at the bottom left. Source S.Maria.Magg.98 f.160v

Title page from Capp.Sist.157, a book printed in 1602. It has the author Alphonsi Lobo de Borja in large roman letters at the top, and a large complex metal engraving taking up much of the page. The print location and date are at the bottom

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178d

Queerness in Scotland has always existed, hidden in medieval manuscripts, coded in Jacobite poetry, or expressed through the arts. In the first of a 3-part series, the National Galleries of Scotland explores queer artforms & artists from Scotland, past & present

#Pride #PrideDay 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKBCxUmPBho

#Scottish #literature #poetry #art #manuscripts #medieval #18thcentury #history #jacobites #queerhistory #queerness #Pride #PrideDay #InternationalPrideDay #LGBTQ

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178d

49 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week26.html
Including a ton more from the Cappella Sistina, both archival and diaries, a vol of 10th C sermons, Ausonius (including the wedding cento!), a map of the roman forum and more
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

A decorated page from a Missa, Chig.B.VII.210 f.12v. There is a rotunda gothic hand for two columns with red rubrications within the text and several, illuminated initials. There is a narrow border on the left with several birds and acrobats, and a interlace at hte bottom

A page of 17th C Italian cursive in a single column of brown ink. There are several corrections in the text and a small marginal note at the bottom left. From Barb.lat.2670 f.12r

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149d

another week, another 29 #Manuscripts digitized by the #vatican https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week30.html
Including plays by Sebastiano Baldin, Euclid, Ethiopic liturgy, dated and glossed Seneca, patristics, papal history, and Peñafort... oh my!
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Ott.lat.1585 f.1r. A page of italian gothictext with an elaborate border and illuminated iniial S at left. The text has a small central block with a bracket of commentary on the top right

f.21r from Ott.lat.1551. A page of Euclids elements in a highly abbreviated gothic hand, in a single column. on the right edge are a series of geometric diagrams running vertically

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152d

The Battle of Harlaw was fought #OTD, 24 July, 1411. Before the battle the Clan Donald bard Lachlann Mòr MacMhuirich composed this brosnachadh or incitement to battle. Each line contains 2 describing words, & each successive pair of lines all begin with the same letter while retaining the 7-syllable format of each line. The poet works through the entire Gaelic alphabet in sequence.

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https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/inverurie/battleofharlaw/index.html

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #medieval #history #battle

Brostughadh-catha Chlann-Domhnaill, Là Chatha Gharbhaich
Lachlann Mòr MacMhuirich

A Chlanna Cuinn, cuimhnichibh
Cruas an am na h-iorghaile:
Gu h-àirneach, gu h-arranta,
Gu h-athlamh, gu h-allanta,
Gu beòdha, gu barramhail,
Gu brìoghmhor, gu buan-fheargach,
Gu calma, gu curanta,
Gu cròdha, gu cath-bhuadhach,
Gu dùr is gu dàsannach,
Gu dian is gu deagh-fhulang,
Gu h-èasgaidh, gu h-eaghnamhach,
Gu h-éidith’, gu h-eireachdail,
Gu fortail, gu furachail,
Gu frithir, gu forniata,
Gu gruamach, gu gràineamhail,
Gu gleusta, gu gaisgeamhail,
Gu h-ullamh, gu h-iorghaileach,
Gu h-olla-bhorb, gu h-àibheiseach,
Gu h-innill, gu h-inntinneach,
Gu h-iomdha, gu h-iomghonach,
Gu laomsgar, gu làn-athlamh,
Gu làidir, gu luath-bhuilleach,
Gu mearghanta, gu mór-chneadhach,
Gu meanmnach, gu mìleanta,
Gu neimhneach, gu naimhdeamhail,
Gu niatach, gu neimh-eaglach,
Gu h-obann, gu h-olla-ghnìomhach,
Gu h-oirdheirc, gu h-oirbheartach,
Gu prap is gu prìomh-ullamh,
Gu prosta, gu prionnsamhail,
Gu ruaimneach, gu ro-dhàna,

Gu ro-bhorb, gu rìoghamhail,
Gu sanntach, gu sèanamhail,
Gun socair, gu sàr-bhuailteach,
Gu teannta, gu togarrach,
Gu talcmhor, gu traigh-èasgaidh,
Gu h-urlamh, gu h-ùr-mhaiseach,
Do chosnadh na cath-làthrach
Re bronnaibh bhar biodhbhadha.
A Chlanna Cuinn Cèad-chathaich
A nois uair bhar n-aitheanta,
A chuileanan confadhach,
A leómhannan làn-ghasta,
A onchonaibh iorghaileach,
Chaoiribh chròdha, churanta
De Chlanna Cuinn Cèad-chathaich –
A Chlanna Cuinn, cuimhnichibh
Cruas an am na h-iorghaile.

The Harlaw Brosnachadh
Lachlann Mòr MacMhuirich
Translated by Meg Bateman

Children of Conn, recall now
courage in time of combat:
be attentive, audacious,
agile, ambitious,
be bold, beautiful,
brawny, belligerent,
contumacious, courageous,
clever, combative,
deliberate, destructive,
deadly, enduring,
be eager, expert,
well-equipped, elegant,
be forceful, fitful,
fervent, feisty,
be grim, gruesome,
gymnastic, glorious,
alert, awesome,
intractable, impetuous,
well-accoutred, ardent,
innumerable, incisive,
be lethal, lusty,
swiftly lopping, giving it laldy,
mirthful, mortally-wounding,
mettlesome, military,
be noxious, nasty,
never-daunted, never-fearing,
overwhelming, omnipotent,
outshining, outreaching,
precipitate, prepared,
powerful, princely,
be robust, reckless,
ruinous, regal,

be sharp, sainèd,
steady, sure-hitting,
tight, triumphant,
tenacious, tripping,
youthful and yearning
to beat in battle
the foe's forces.

O Children of Conn of a hundred conflicts,
now is the hour for honour,
O warring whelps,
O bulky bears,
O leading lions,
O obstinate otters,
live, courageous coals
of the Children of Conn of a hundred conflicts –
O Children of Conn, recall now
courage in time of combat.

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152d

https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-deep-roots-of-paganism

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Francis Young's "Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples ".

This book sounds like essential reading for anyone interested in paganism, neopaganism, and the beliefs and practices of those living between the Baltic and the Urals as they encountered Christians.

#Paganism #Neopaganism #FrancisYoung #History #Sámi #Finland #Lithuania #Creolization #Medieval

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135d

A reasonably strong 75 #Manuscripts were added by the #Vatican this past week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week32.html
Includes several incunabula hybrids, several Ge'ez liturgicals, Petrarch, 12th C Priscian, illuminated Ovid, legal texts, papal-adjacent docs and more!
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

a presentation scene. A man kneels at bottom right presenting a book to king edward IV seated on a throne under a pink canopy. f.1r from Vat.lat.3586

A page of 13th c script in two columns. Each column is interrupted by a geometric diagram related to spirals. from Ott.lat.1850, f.15r

f.1r from Ottl.at.1433. A 14th C italian gothic hand in one column with a massive illuminated initial I at top left. Floral borders at top, bottom and left

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137d

Dragon Awakes

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/dragon-awakes-justin-farrimond.html

If you were hoping to sneak past the dragon into the castle gate you failed. Now what do you do?

#PhotoOfTheDay #Dragon #Photography #Art #BlackAndWhite #BelieveInFilm #ArtPrint #Medieval #History #Fantasy #DungeonsAndDragons #FilmPhotography

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Black and white film photograph showing a dragon amongst wildflowers by an arched castle door.

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