Reliving a highlight from last year, when I spent a day in the catacombs of the Royal Society in the company of J.J Scheuchzer & Anna Waser - diving into the manuscript of Itinera alpina (printed 1708). Here one of my favourite Waser-frontispieces... 🥹 #ManuscriptMonday#EarlyModern
We just received the first copy of our new book! It is LARGE and it looks SO GOOD. It's a limited print run, but you can pre-order now at the link in my bio (£45/$60). They should ship in the UK in late September and the rest of the world in October. #newbooks#geniza#manuscriptmonday
A snail shell on this plate from Johs. Gessner's unpublished 'Museum' (mid-1700s) seems to have a wee lodger -a retracted hermit crab 🦀. Unknown whether it was part of the specimen or added to show they use such shells. Cute as hell, though 🥰 #EarlyModern#ManuscriptMonday#InsertAnInvert2024 🌿
Hard hitting legal questioning here: "wether did not yow the said Laurance...use thes or the like wordes...'A farte for yow & your proces to.'" #manuscriptmonday#earlymodern#OED have this expression dated back to 1571 (this instance is 1593).
![secretary hand script, "A farte for yow & yo[ur] p[ro]ces to"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:byjtznsj5hs7usynzy3tpcbx/bafkreic67gurpmu2w2r4dk6ywixti7nmuujemzvocglibb3zsqeh4c6woy@jpeg)
