#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.]

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA Tirreno di Oggi mercoledì, 26 febbraio 2025

[cmorga]

Jeziorka River

[iniziaunsogno]

[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]

alchemical illustrations

from the book of alchemical formulas by claudio de dominico celentano di valle nove. naples, 1606

source: Los Angeles, The Getty Research Institute, Manly P. Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, Ms. 123, pp. 6, 8, 16, and 25

[meanbossart]

Well. @/barbatusart commissioned this.

[praline1968]

Source : Pinterest

[youngmoviemaker]

The Duality of Naturae

[barbatusart]

fresh post for the daycrew but im realizing the pic of cazador wiggling a dead rat at somebody from last night & this one panel of "emin" with the "invisibility potion" from De Rerum Natura rhyme almost perfectly which is like the happiest accident of my life LOL

[kurtssingh]

<Timeless>

For @temve

Thank you forever for your creativity and passion.

[cmorga]

Worn-out Bridge

[a-book-of-creatures]

For March 1st, #lobsterinvasion, here is the lobster (locusta maris, sea locust) in the Liber de natura rerum.

Looks just like it.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Mont-rebei canyon (Congost de Mont-rebei) in autumn. This canyon is the natural feature that is used as the border between Catalonia on the East and La Franja (Aragon) on the West.

Photos by Berta Raspall on Pexels.