Perfection
Perfection
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Don't be shellfish.
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I feel like this is what happens when 2 people work on different parts of a project without any kind of coordination between them
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Though, I suspect they were likely separated by time more so than organizational inefficiecy.
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Monk 3: Monk 2 had drawn a kickass devil and asked me decorate the borders with fire, but I am out of red ink, the mussels will do.
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Those mussel drawings are strangely realistic compared to the human.
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They can hold a pose for longer.
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This could literally be a Dwarf Fortress randomly generated inscription.
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Those demons… one is so over it, the other is shocked by the same exact thing for the 468733 time.
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IIRC mussels were “unclean”, so would that jive with the whole demonic sin thing?
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Fun fact: it’s “jibe” not “jive” - https://www.grammarly.com/commonly-confused-words/jibe-vs-jive
Please don’t take this as me being an asshole, it’s just that English is my second language, and I find this kind of stuff fascinating.
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TIL.
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Second-language English speaker correcting first-language speaker - are you Dutch by any chance?
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TIL, thanks for sharing.
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...and hell is inside a gigantic otter?
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They are super rapey
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Well, have you ever been inside a gigantic otter? If you know, you know...
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I love these because it give us a glimpse into oldschool metaphors that were so, so obvious at the time. Like of course you're going to slap down some mussels on that hell talk because it's an unclean abomination.
And of course you're gonna give a pregnant women a pomegranate, and make sure jesus has a pelican. Why wouldn't jesus be hanging with a pelican? If not, at least make sure he's holding a fish and there's a shepherd in there somewhere.
The illuminaries were memelord shitposters.
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Old medieval pages look so fascinating. Too bad the letters are so beautifully drawn that I can't even try reading what each word says.
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It's probably in German if that helps you.
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That makes it even worse, I don't speak German.
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Very strategic leg placement there.
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The demon's face says he doesn't mind.
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Looks like his eyes are bugging out from being kneed in the groin to me.
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Middle-ages cloistered monks really had a lot of time on their hands and no other entertainment, so yeah, crazy art of whatever comes to mind.
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I think the period that this book was illuminated in was from later when really fancy books was more of a business for the church. Usually the very early illuminated books were made by a single monk doing most steps of the process (prepping parchment, calligraphy, painting, binding, etc.) but the later books like this may have had different artists for the illuminated letters vs the borders. So there could have been one monk that just likes sea stuff and he was too good for the other brothers to tell him to stop.
Source: mostly vibes, but I've dipped my toes into illumination and guilding
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Fresh water mussels with a side order of tortured soul, yumm
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What makes them freshwater mussels? They look like regular ones to my uneducated eye.
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Monk 2: I sure hope my painstakingly hand drawn illumination won't be nitpicked by some smug jerk from the future.
They really didn't understand humans I guess.
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