Evangelistary (“Liber viventium”)
Parchment · 91 ff. · 31 x 20.5 cm · Churrätien · first quarter of the 9th century and 9th-14th centuries
(via e-codices)The Liber viventium Fabariensis is likely the most important surviving work of Rhaetish book art. This manuscript was originally designed as an Evangelistary and richly adorned with initials, frames for canonical tables and full-page illustrations of the symbols of the four evangelists. Starting in 830 the names of monks who joined the monastic community were listed in the empty canonical table frames, together with living and deceased benefactors of the abbey. In addition to its function as evangelistary, memorial and record of the monastic brotherhood, the Liber viventium was later also used to preserve the historial records and treasure catalog of Pfäfers Abbey. Because of the legal importance of the Liber viventium up to modern times, the volume is housed in the archival collection of Pfäfers Abbey. (kur)
Whitby Harbor by Moonlight - John Atkinson Grimshaw
1862
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An Immaculate Tale
Tim Walker for Casa Vogue, October 2010
The rebirth of the sun, from the Book of the Day, as seen in the tomb of Ramesses VI.
Luigi Boccherini - String Quintet N.6,Op.30 - III - La Musica Notturna Delle Strade Di Madrid
a hundred and thirtyish of the most absolutely perfect seconds in all of classical music or pretty much any music ever
history meme. nine kings/queens: Saladin (1138-1187), sultan of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.
Considered to be the one the greatest of Muslim heroes, Saladin was a prominent player during the time of the Crusades. He retook the city of Jersusalem from the Franks, having been victorious at the Battle of Hattin in 1187. He’s famed for his humane treatment of the Christian population of Jerusalem, often contrasted against the manner with which the Christian Crusaders treated with the Muslims and the Jews upon their first arrival in Jerusalem.
