#naturae

[fieriframes]

[This is the kalua pork, these are the purple sweet potatoes, here's our delicious poke, this is poi, and naturae semper telluris habendi. That's squid luau, which is the taro leaves with octopus, coconut milk and some sweetener.]

[goddesstrolls]

The symbol for the Naturae; Basically just the symbols for the three factions mashed together.

[normalfem]

Actually girlhood is being obsessed with a specific historical tragedy when you were like 9

[cmorga]

Jeziorka River

[a-book-of-creatures]

Hey tumblr we need to have a talk about something I noticed.

Specifically going by tags attached to images I’ve blogged or reblogged, there seems to be a misconception that marginalia means “any quirky medieval art”.

It’s not.

Marginalia is anything in the margins of a text.

The ones that will get posted on tumblr will more often than not be quirky drawings, but they also include notes, annotations, scribbles, and whatever else. The quirky drawings just happen to get a lot of press on here because, well. They��re quirky drawings.

For instance, see this image here of a platanista (river dolphin) chomping down on an elephant’s trunk?

This is not marginalia! This is a full-fledged illustration. It’s within the text (Liber natura rerum, Thomas de Cantimpré, Librairie de Valenciennes Ms 0320). It illustrates the entry on Platanista.

This is what it looks like in context.

But you know what are marginalia? Let me circle them for convenience.

Know the difference. It won’t save your life but it will make you more popular at a medievalist conference.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Landscape around Estany de la Fontviva, a glacial lake in the Pyrenee mountains, Northern Catalonia.

Photos by nicolas.bicorne.photos on Instagram.

[cuties-in-codices]

aquatic creatures (stella, zytiron, serra marina, equus marinus, monachus, scilla)

illustrations from a manuscript copy of thomas of cantimpré's 13th c. liber de natura rerum, bavaria, c. 1424

source: Vatican, Bibl. Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1066, fol. 110r-125v

[meanbossart]

Well. @/barbatusart commissioned this.

[fierifiction]

Sacramenative simenyvichmeh. and constridtionem] virtutis partis naturae. Awesome to work with. The perfect is the perfection. The second thing is not that you have been made perfect. It is that you have been made perfect. The universe is all imperfect. In essence, the ultimate of all works is self-perfection, which is perfection through reason and nature. In the divine nature, self-perfection is the perfection of all creation.

[kurtssingh]

<Timeless>

For @temve

Thank you forever for your creativity and passion.

[youngmoviemaker]

The Duality of Naturae

[fieriframes]

["Sacramenative simenyvichmeh." and constridtionem] virtutis partis naturae. Awesome to work with.]

[fliegenengel]

I stretch myself like the sea, so that tomorrow can't deny a dance with me

[cmorga]

Worn-out Bridge

[sigsfigs]

sillies

another close up for the masses ^_^ theyre too cute we looove mazey phaedra in this household