Le plus important est invisible

Halloween is nearly here so I made a spooky loop  

Apparently at some point last year I mass generated a bunch of animated gifs from the digitized manuscripts available on OPenn. For our new followers, OPenn is where the University of Pennsylvania Libraries publishes all our digitized manuscripts (with more coming from libraries all over Philadelphia!) and metadata under open access licenses (the metadata is CC-BY, images are in the Public Domain). Anyway, I have no idea how or why I did this (I imagine the “why” was “because I want to see if I could”), but I have hundreds of these, so maybe now it’s time to share. Here’s the first set. (The top 3 are the gifs; the two below are still images of folios 1v and 2r, which are colorful but not represented in any of the gifs)

LJS 19, Carta executoria de hidalguia a pedimiento. 

Summary: Carta executoria issued under the name of Charles I of Spain in favor of Johan Garcia y la Puente of Mora, in response to his pleito de hidalguia (litigation to establish noble status), written in Granada and dated 16 June 1543.

Christ is crucified on an initial T. The Virgin Mary is somber in her attitude of prayer; John is suitably despondent, but that doesn’t mean he can’t also check the state of his curls while he’s at it. You look good, you know that.

Manuscript description and digital images can be found here at OPenn.

Photography by Marta Bevacqua

Marta Bevacqua is a professional, Italian photographer currently based in Paris. Is represented by Brice Pascal Suisse. Her Instagram.

Animal box is a photo session for Mia Le Journal.

Photography: Marta Bevacqua 

Assistant: Tara Lengyel 

Model: Elodie @ Oui 

Makeup: Camille Lutz 

Hair: Paul Dauchemin 

Styling: Andréa Ottaviani 

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