#book of hours

[gangstalkerbarbie]

I think we're going to find all this out in Traveling At Night and I'm hedging my bets now that because the USSR is relevant, we're finally going to go see what the devil is happening with the Tigrines. They probably have at least one Natan Regensburg (not that one, but one related enough, since his family keeps using the name for some reason, unless that's all him idk) and whoever we get to play in TaN could probably bully him into parting with whatever family lore he has. :3

At least I hope so, because I think this yeshiva in Tbilisi is involved with the Velvet, and so if anyone has weird cosmic dirt on everyone else...

abbot geffrey speculated on the nature of janus through his writings on the great signs and great scars. part of his musings focused on the obligations of guest and host - something thirza blake references when describing effective methods of summoning spirits. later, the abbot would invite the regenburgs to stay in hush house, defying the church with as much of his considerable sway as he could. then natan regensburg is awesome and cool and heals people and creates his balm and does that mysterious thing with the black bird that might've been an emanation of the black dove. then much later the dumbfuck hendrick messes this up. then a little later than that hendrick's great-grandson musgrave puts up a shrine to st januarius across from abbot geffrey's chancel shrine, bringing us full circle to geffrey knowing things about janus somehow. oh and also geffrey had prophetic dreams from the twins where the sister told him you can't have what you can't hold, and the witch told him ??? something else. baffling. my mind squirms with curiosity

[thebeautifulbook]

CODEX ROTUNDUS (Flanders, c.1480)

Held by Dombibliothek Hildesheim, Germany.

source

[vexwerewolf]

Right winger attempts to come up with a new joke

[cuties-in-codices]

drawings of flowers and cherries at the margins of a manuscript made to look like real material objects affixed to the page

in a book of hours, flanders, ca. 1520

source: Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibl., Cod. 2730, f. 7r-9r.

[vio-lenceee]

Initiates of the hidden world use spintriae to pay for services. Bronze spintriae usually display the act of shaping on their reverse side.

hi cultist simulator fandom. i made bronze spintrias real had a chance to work with real metal and create something for once. used bronze for this for realism's sake i don't know which bronze alloy i used actually. i can ask my professor if you need that they were created by investment casting technique. after they were tumbled, i used a bit of niello (which, imo, didn't really stick to em) and then polished them until they became shiny i enjoy them so much

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Mary Magdalene Borne Aloft.

Artist/Maker: Taddeo Crivelli (Italian, died ca. 1479, active about 1451-1479)

Date: ca. 1469

Place of origin: Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Medium: Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink.

[dailyadventureprompts]

Thirsting Grail, Outergod of Wants and Wounds

Artsource

Adventure Hooks:

While travelling the party encounters a once famed surgeon who seeks their help in undertaking pilgrimage to the distant shrine of a death god. When pressed on her motivation, she reveals that through some curse or divine act of cruelty, those she operates on can never die, but also cannot heal. 

There is a tree that grows in the ruins of the old braon’s castle, said to have sprouted from the chopping block upon which he had his wife’s lovers executed. The tree grows no leaves, only flowers, and it’s said that if you make a tea from its blossoms, you will receive a vision of your one ture love.  Beings of woven thorn are said to guard the tree, but there are those who would pay desperately to drink of its boughs. 

A once peaceful kingdom dissolves into a generations long civil war, any hope of peace drowned beneath a tide of violence, ruination, and grievance that none can hope to escape.

Among the outergods there are none more eager to engage with mortals than the entity known as Thisting Grail. It is a thing of violence and appetite, and seems all too eager to lend its power to those most likely to misuse it, whether they sought it’s aid in the first place or not. 

Scholars and madmen have long debated the Grail’s motivations, what goal or ideology it is trying to achieve with the visions and often horrific miracles it bestows. In truth, Thirsting Grail has no goal beyond the pursuit of violence and longing, it is a means without an end, ready to lend itself to any cause that would make the world a bloodier, hungrier place. 

The god is formless, an ocean of boling blood that takes on the shape of whatever “vessel” its followers imagine for it, borrowing their cultural iconography and birthing itself anew each time. There are litanies of these avatars, hundreds more likely forgotten by history;  blood saints and baleful red stars and heart hungry blades. Perhaps because of blood’s ubiquity in ritual and occult practice the Grail’s influence can “seep” its way into the worship of other entities, divine or demonic, and it’s not unheard of for otherwise upstanding and dogmatic worshippers of banal gods to accidentally begin practising the grail’s bloody rites. 

Sanguimancy and other forms of blood magic are the most obvious of Thirsting Grail’s gifts, but it has other more esoteric offerings: smoke from sacrifices or incense mingled with the formless god’s essence can grant visions of desires made manifest, though often twisted through a disturbingly carnal (in both senses of the word) lens. All too often worshippers ( and the cult leaders that encourage them) see these visions as prophetic, leading to the outergod being sometimes called “the mother of truth”.  It can also manifest the objects of desire: succulent fruits, unearthly lovers, weapons of inordinate power, but there is something fundamentally wrong with these creations as they cannot grant true satisfaction, and often leave those that partake of them wanting more than when they started. 

Those who fall prey to Thirsting Grail’s influence can become warped as their own veins become polluted by the entity’s ichor: becoming feral creatures of endless cruelty and appetite, or having their wounds open wider and wider until there is nothing but wound remaining of their swollen flesh. Those so overtaken grow and warp and merge with others until new horrors are birthed from them, a permanent seedbed of 

Titles: Mother of truth, formless mother, font erubescent, the bloodstar.  Symbols: A red grail or fountain, cultural iconography stained with blood.  Signs:  Wounds that bleed but do not heal, plants overflowing or cracking open to expose their innards. Unsettling red dreams.  Worshippers: Those with bloodstained hands be they doctors, butchers, or murderers. Vampires, occultists, and other sanguiphiles. Instatiable gourmands and unfulfilled lovers.   

Inspiration:  I wear my influences on my sleeve with this one.  I’ve been turning the Elden Ring mythology over in my mind for some time partially because I think there’s a lot of fun ideas there but also because I felt like (in typical Fromsoft fashion) there wasn’t enough shown to really scratch my itch for discovery. 

The formless mother/bloodstar was chiefest among these elements: A killer aesthetic with lore that was a little too thin to use as inspiration. After a while that thinness turned into a feature, the idea of an eldritch entity of pain and violence that conformed to the needs of those who worshipped it, granting power to those who would go out and make the world more violent and painful.  I liked the idea that “mother of truth” was a misnomer, and that cultists would ascribe meaning and intent and iconography to a god that didn’t care one way or another. 

Another strong influence is the Grail from Cultist Simulator/Book of hours ( SERIOUSLY, play book of hours you fools), an eldritch entity/aspect of reality that presides over hungers and births be they literal or figurative.  The Blood + Mother connection was obvious here, but the Grail provided some more texture and esoteric aspects to fill out my version’s storytelling potential.

[victusinveritas]

Book of Hours, France 16th century

[lionofchaeronea]

St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra, secretly gives dowries to three poor girls. Miniature executed by a French artist known as the "Master of Jean Rolin II," for folio 84r of the Book of Hours commissioned by a court official named Simon de Varie and completed in 1455. Now in the KB National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague.

[discerningduck]

Pottering through the BoH tag and I find this and I need to talk about it. Sorry if you don't actually care lol

Yes! Each Librarian has their own specific cache. For each Librarian it goes:

The Revolutionary: Ironclad Casket

The Magnate: Morbid Casket

The Cartographer: Scaled Casket

The Artist: Hive Casket

The Prodigal: Coppery Casket

The Symurgist: Attaché Case

The Archaeologist: Scarred Casket

The Executioner: Mottled Casket

The Twice-Born: Ambered Casket

I know this because like half a year ago on the subreddit, there was a discussion about a hidden secret mentioned in the BoH anniversary blogpost, and I started fiddling in the game, trying to find it. The run-down is this (spoiler sort of for a really well-hidden secret):

Items left placed on the pedestal for the 13th Librarian (your successor) carry over into the new game once you end your current playthrough and begin a new one from the ending screen (NOT the title screen). Specifically, it moves to the 12th Librarian's (your) niche. Cool, this means you can take something useful over to a new game for a head start, like a Mazarine Fife or a Chronsichord.

HOWEVER, if you leave your Librarian's journal on the pedestal and end the game, it becomes that Librarian's associated cache in the next one, which is how I know exactly who matches to what for certain. The only issue here is that I've only been able to achieve this via the dev console, because you need the journal to end the game, and I have been utterly unable to work out what the missing step could possibly be to achieve it legitimately (if there is one. I've been wondering if it's somehow bugged, or the secret is actually something else, and this is just an easter egg from AK to himself that I shouldn't have been able to access.)

This has been bothering me for months now, so I continue to jump on the opportunity to crowd source ideas where I can lol.

I FOUND SOMETHING INTERESTING

it's the Librarians some of the casks are from the Librarians

A lot of them are from other people but there are these ones which are definitely from the Librarians, but how? I guess the Librarian does seem to have a bit of an influence on the Histories? Perhaps they were able to leave something for us to find? Perhaps it's something they can do? if they are able to write the future, perhaps they can also write the past? I suppose it could be other characters that already exist maybe? But it would be odd if there's been a Prodigal situation at Hush House twice and we don't know about it? I guess maybe that could be a thing but, it's the Librarians, it's an exact match, it's the Librarians I want to hear everyone's thoughts on this, are these existing characters that I don't know about? I could see Ambered being someone like Teresa and Scaled could be someone like Al-Adim but the rest I'm not sure, I feel like it is a thing where the Twelth Librarians were able to influence the past somehow and left these here for us but idk

[nephriteknight]

book of hours gets you in character with it's limited UI and emphasis on the passage of time and the weather; cultist simulator gets you into character by luring you in with the Glory until you realize its 3 in the morning and you're frantically re-reading lore while juggling four different tasks and trying to combat fascination while a hunter is on your tail and you still haven't done the dishes in your real actual life

[thebeautifulbook]

FLEUR DE LYS-SHAPED BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin, use of Rome (Paris, c. 1553). Illuminated manuscript on paper.

180 x 80mm. i + 117 leaves, each page with 24 lines written in a 'roman' hand in black ink within a liquid gold border in the shape of a half fleur de lys, spaces infilled with liquid gold fronds on blue or red grounds, line-fillers and one- and two-line initials of the same colours, eleven lobe-shaped miniatures. Nineteenth-century brown morocco gilt, semé with fleur de lys, doublures of red morocco gilt, edges gauffered and gilt (upper cover detached). [Christies Auction House, 2006 catalog]

source

[upennmanuscripts]

#CoffeeWithACodex is our weekly manuscript show-and-tell. We're taking August off, but you can watch recordings of previous events on our YouTube channel! Like this one: Ms. Codex 1063, a book of hours made in London in the 15th century, with some lovely illuminated initials and musical notation. We looked at this one in February, 2023.

🔗:

[videogamepolls]

Requested by @bunbun-07

[cuties-in-codices]

reynard the fox as a clergyman, with birds in his cowl

in the book of hours of mary of burgundy, flanders, ca. 1470

source: Vienna, ÖBN, Cod. 1857, fol. 59v