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Elena Shadrina
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Medieval history PhD student working on legal & economic history of Venice and the Mediterranean in the central middle ages | https://harvard.academia.edu/ElenaShadrina
Here mainly to lurk 👀
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Behold the hole in the parchment!

MS Dd.4.17; Books of Hours; 14th Century C.E.; East Anglia;
f.36v @camdiglib.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Cats doing cat things. Bodleian Library Bodley 764 f. 51r #Caturday
April 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Manuscript was decorated by the cleric Wandalgarius who leaves his mark here beneath a crowned lawgiver:

"Uandalgarius fecit hec"

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 731; Lex Romana Visigothorum, Lex Salica, Lex Alamannorum; 793 CE; Lyon; p.234
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
April 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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How's 2025 going?

"Oh, you know, it's going"
March 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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For #SuperbOwlSunday a.gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.

Photo: Louvre, Paris
February 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Whenever you're trying to study, there's always some fool in a wheelbarrow making a noise.

BL Harley MS 3487; Aristotle, Libri naturales; 13th century; England; f.22v
December 15, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century
November 22, 2024 at 10:32 PM