#inscriptions

[g63heavenonearth]

Allegheny Cemetery 62415-13

[renegade-hierophant]

Litterae:

implexae

columnatae

insertae

contiguae

Inscription from the year 1111 dedicated to the nun Vekenega from Zadar in Croatia:

LAVDE NITENS MVLTA IACET HIC VEKENEGA SEPVLTA

VAE) FABRICA(M) T(VR)RIS SIMVL ET CAPITOLIA STRVX IT

HAEC OBIT VNDENO CENTV(M) PO(ST) MILLE SVB AEVO

QVO UENIENS CHR(ISTV)S. CARNIS GESTAUIT AMICTVS

NOS HABET E(T) ANNVS QVINTVS QVO REX COLOMANUS

PR(AE)SUL ET EST DECIM(VS) QVO GR(E)G(O)R(IVS) FVIT ANNVS

[nordleuchten]

The marks they left behind

I had the chance to tour the steeple of the St. Sebalduskirche and on the way I noticed two interesting inscriptions. The first is from a stonemason that worked the stones in 1678 and left his mark:

The second one is probably from a bellringer or tower-keeper in the 1870s:

I thought this might interest you especially @benjhawkins.

[sylph8-fr]

hi i’m jas!

long time fr player, been here since 2016. Over the years i usually came in for the anniversary and brighshine, stayed for a few months and disappeared for the rest of the year.

DUSTHIDES THOUGH.

Since their release i’ve been playing quite consistently and got into gene-ing projects, art commissions and other stuff. The tumblr FR community has been super helpful in this time and i decided it’s time to integrate myself in here! Exited to participate :)

[anclibrary]

Seeing what people wrote in their books is such a delightful treat every time! Like this man, who had a LOT to say about Ian Hay’s Malta Epic back in the 40s:

“This is just run-of-the-mill Ministry of War Information and its style is atrocious, but I will never forget my first meeting with the author— or is he actually the author and was it my first meeting with him?

Ian Hay Beith is a cousin of some sort of Dr Hugh Lodge who was our [illegible] in Sewickley. However I think I probably met him as a lecturer for the Woman’s Club whom mother was entertaining (I met so many celebrities that way) but if so I do not remember it.

What I remember is an incident which occurred when I was an officer candidate at Fort Myer in 1917. One night the companies were all assembled and marched to the auditorium to hear Ian Hay speak. He was then a Major and his country was in serious trouble. He had been denied in Washington and was late speaking. While waiting for him we sang. We sang “The Old Grey Ware” and “K. K. Katy, Beautiful Katy” and finally something which was very new “Over There.” In the middle of “Over There” Major Beith came on the platform. He heard us, the whole 3000 or more of us singing “We’ll be over; we’re coming over. And we won’t be back till it’s over, over there.” I saw the tears come to his eyes and I heard quiver in his voice when he said, very simply, “I will tell my people you are coming over…”

[vhscorp]

En marchant dans la rue, j’ai vu que quelqu’un avait écrit : « amour » sur le trottoir, je n’en sais pas la raison, mais c’est le genre d’inscriptions qui me redonnent espoir…

V. H. SCORP

[00-blackraven-00]

хахах,смешнявые фотокарточки с любимым мальчиком:)

авторство персонажа:@red-tea-lover

[letsgostealthelouvre]

This is a pyxis or personal accessory box, which the louvre says is “to hunters”, presumably meaning it was owned by someone with a passion or vocation for hunting. It’s difficult to see the adornment and thus not as interesting as I’d hoped, but there is an inscription which in part reads “Bliss, victory, power, happiness, bliss, victory and bliss, power, bliss, bliss, power to its owner” which is a lovely if somewhat repetitive blessing to put on what amounts to a person’s shaving kit. 

[ID: A large round ivory box, shaped rather like a drum, with two gold latches on the top and a gold hinge on the other side. It is faintly decorated with crouching creatures around the rim, and birds, foliage, and the hint of a man on horseback on the sides.]

[tonreihe]

David Jones, Quia per incarnati (1953)

[canis-caro]

HOW THE FUCK DO I GIT GUD

[g63heavenonearth]

Allegheny Cemetery 62415-37

[phneep]

[mxlabradorite]

Extremely low stakes peeve re Amazon and online gifts in general:

I love inscribed books. You can't really do it when you're sending books or journals etc directly from Amazon/etsy/wherever.

I feel like it's a dying art in general, which is sad.

My family are big book gifters, and reading the inscriptions when I was cleaning out the apartment provided context, timelines, laughs, and tears.

Who else inscribes the books they give anymore???

[aky6440]

[nonhapiupareti]

"When I wanted to exist, I couldn't" (original inscription on ancient Bosnian tombstone)