Someone in our lace group sent us on a side quest of illuminated manuscripts, so I'm just pawing through them while I listen to music.
I stopped here for a close look at the altar fringe (prolly not lace), but I loved the insects in this piece. This illustrator loved them, I think. Are those moths @alexwild ? And a dragonfly?
Stundenbuch (Livre d'heures) - BSB Clm 28345
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00108472?page=127
The care that these insects were done with, while they appear to throw a guy off a boat into the mouth of a shark is kind of odd. But really nice. Aside from the murder.
Page 265 of that same book from previous link.
@mem_somerville That will be Jonah, a whale and some scared sailors.
Apparently, our word for whale comes from words for “the biggest fish you can find” and was used for things like those big European catfish that are capable of drowning people. So a medieval toothed whale is that unreasonable.
@custard Ah. I see. That makes sense as I extract some old religion classes from my brain.
Later on I think they are torturing Saint Barbara, but I'm not sure of that. I vaguely remembered that tale.
@mem_somerville The Getty Roulette bot also comes up with illuminated manuscripts fairly regularly. But I think it’s down at the moment?
