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This Friday 10th November @ 11 EST on Zoom! Claire Burridge on "Marginal Recipes, Major Insights" at the CHSM Objects, Spaces and Images of Health working group. Paper and details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #histstm #medieval #recipestudies
historyelaine.bsky.social Elaine Leong @historyelaine.bsky.social · Oct 30
Recipes Alert! Join the CHSTM Objects, Spaces & Images of Health WG on 10th Nov @ 11 EST to discuss Claire Burridge's paper "Marginal Recipes, Major Insights". Debby Banham will kickstart our convo with a comment. Paper and details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #visualculture #medieval #manuscripts
The image shows a section of f. 60 in the manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, vat. lat. 645. There is an image of Pegasus in the middle of this selection, surrounded by text. While the top and bottom lines of text are part of an abridged, illustrated version of Bede's De signis caeli and describe constellations (in this case, Pegasus), the text immediately surrounding the image are all medical recipes that have been added at a later date.
November 6, 2023 at 2:09 PM