dreſt in Man's Apparel

fluentisonus

do you ever remember the note the scribe left at the end of catullus manuscript G and want to burst into tears

fluentisonus

A photo of Latin text from a medieval manuscript reading: "Tu lector quicumque ad cuius manus hic libellus obuenerit Scriptori da ueniam si tibi coruptus uidebitur. Quoniam a corruptissimo exemplari transcripsit. non enim quodpiam aliud extabat unde posset libelli huius habere copiam exemplandi, et ut ex ipso salebroso aliquid tantum suggeret decreuit pocius tamen coruptum habere quam omnino carere. Sperans adhuc ab alliquo alio fortuite emergente hunc posse corigere. Valebis si ei imprecatus non fueris."

colophon from manuscript G (36 recto), trans. oakley

Pinned Post (that link is the actual page in the manuscript) thoughts catullus

text from an 18th century play reading "Sil: What! Men kiss one another!". The first S in "kiss" is a long S

thoughts

atreides

alexmurison

Durdle Door, Dorset

dorset on the dash

my parents went to mexico city & are showing me all their photos from the museums there & I’m absolutely sick with jealousy

when will i get to see some of the coolest ceramics ever done!!!!!!! 😭😭😭 thoughts I've been wanting to go there for Years.........

bronzeageecho

fragment of a dexiosis (farewell scene) from a grave relief | c. 325-301 BCE | greece, attic peninsula

in the benaki museum collection

the way this motif is still on so many graves to this day makes me crazy

I do really agree that the grey-and-mud colouring of like every single ‘medieval’ show and movie betrays a real lack of historical understanding or interest or sympathy in the way people actually lived back then & even a certain disdain for people of the past & it’s incredibly frustrating & also just boring to see. but I do feel that it’s not really an entirely honest argument to use medieval manuscript illustrations as evidence for how people, particularly peasants, would have dressed in real life, because like I don’t think these manuscripts are trying to accurately depict that sort of thing, rather they are trying to make a good artistic visual you know ? particularly when it comes to colouring

like agree with the overall idea (there Was colour in the middle ages) but I never feel very happy w this as an argument thoughts ig this also is a point of irritation w me bc I think people are inclined to interpret historical forms of art very literally in a way that doesn't afford the historical artist the capability of less literal intentions which think they did have often

a dry field with many shades of brown and gold and some of purple and green and yellow

a photo of a copy of the socialist annual 1907

a photo of the mural in Charing cross station, in a medieval woodcut style, showing what seems to be people harvesting grain

a photo of a 1820s style horse drawn omnibus in a museum

a photo of a courtyard of a red brick building in the late summer afternoon, looking across a pool of water in the middle

tagged by the wonderful @clove-pinks a while back for 6 faceless photos !! thank you <3

feat. a field with beautiful colours, graveyard on the river avon, socialist annual (1907) with an interesting article on women’s suffrage i found at a car boot sale, charing cross mural (my beloved), a reproduction of a 1820s london omnibus from the transport museum, and the v&a courtyard on a hot day

tagging @winedark @catilinas @quatregats @chiropteracupola @hexjulia you feel like it! & anyone else who’d like to

tried to sort of reproduce the august vibes we've got going on atm . thoughts