That sounded as if I do nothing else but steal old manuscripts. Until then, here are several medieval cats licking their rears. At three o'clock Cat called to say she'd arrived.
#Cat walks on old manuscript update
If you have a copy yourself, maybe you could mail it to us, or at least email us a summary so we can update this introduction! It can be difficult to picture how cats and humans might have interacted in the distant past. Filipovi stumbled upon a familiar set of splotches marring the centuries-old pages. Unfortunately for us, we couldn’t get it from the library before this article had to be published, so we have no clue what she says about it. While pawing through a stack of medieval manuscripts from Dubrovnik, Croatia, University of Sarajevo doctoral student Emir O. Kathleen Walker-Meikle discusses medieval cat iconography in her book Medieval Cats. An image of a cat tonguing its own backside might have been a cautionary symbol warning Christians to stay on the straight and narrow.īut who really knows? Dr. Another, more serious theory is that in the middle ages cats were often associated with wickedness and Satan–unlike the other major domestic pet of the era, the dog, cats are difficult to train and often do their own thing. He was forced to leave the rest of the page empty, drew a picture of a cat and cursed the creature with the following words: Hic non defectus est, sed cattus minxit desuper nocte quadam. One theory is that monks simply found it funny, like we do. A Deventer scribe, writing around 1420, found his manuscript ruined by a urine stain left there by a cat the night before. Yep, you read that correctly! We don’t quite know why monks did this. And also, they often included drawings of cats licking their own butts themselves. Unlike her descriptions of the previous four, which in my book I am able to. Illuminated manuscripts were some of the most valuable items in the medieval period. You can see all of the animals in our Shelter by looking under Dogs, Cats. The sharp-hoofd moose of the north, the cat on the house-sill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog. Illuminated manuscripts were often made by monks, and the process was expensive and time-consuming. I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin. This is a story about how a boy gets filthy rich in the sub-tropical islands. These were books that covered a variety of subjects–Bible passages, biographies of saints, or instructions for behavior, for example–and accompanied by richly detailed illustrations. (I often read two books or newspapers at a time, switching from one to the other as one of our cats switches from one to the. One of the dominant forms of art in the middle ages was the illuminated manuscript. Posted on Februby Philip Annalisa sent me a photograph of the paw prints of a cat on the pages of a medieval manuscript with the subject line Cats haven’t changed a bit.
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