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Some St. Nick relics. Seriously. Now you've seen Santa in the flesh... or bone.
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Liturgical vestments from the Terra Sancta Museum
La Hagadá Dorada (Golden Haggadah)
🇪🇸 La Hagadá Dorada (Golden Haggadah) es uno de los manuscritos iluminados hebreos más significativos del período medieval. Creado entre 1320 y 1330 en Cataluña (Barcelona), este texto es un ejemplo sobresaliente de arte sefardí. Es una Hagadá de Pésaj, un libro que guía la celebración de esta festividad judía, decorado con 14 miniaturas de página completa en oro y colores vivos, así como con 36 paneles iniciales de palabras en oro y diseños vegetales. El fondo dorado de sus ilustraciones le otorga su nombre. Además, contiene escenas bíblicas, como historias del Génesis y el Éxodo, distribuidas en cuatro compartimentos por página. El manuscrito incluye textos poéticos, piezas litúrgicas y decoraciones añadidas en el siglo XVII, como bordes ornamentados y una portada. Está escrito en hebreo, en pergamino de alta calidad, y presenta características propias del arte gótico catalán. Fue adquirido por la Biblioteca Británica en 1865, tras pertenecer al coleccionista Giuseppe Almanzi. Este manuscrito es un puente entre las tradiciones artísticas judías y las influencias cristianas medievales.
Digitised Manuscripts
🇺🇸 The Golden Haggadah is one of the most important illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of the medieval period. Created between 1320 and 1330 in Catalonia (Barcelona), this text exemplifies Sephardic art. It is a Passover Haggadah, a guidebook for this Jewish festival, adorned with 14 full-page miniatures in gold and vibrant colors and 36 initial-word panels in gold with floral designs. Its golden backgrounds give it its name. It also features biblical scenes, such as stories from Genesis and Exodus, divided into four compartments per page. The manuscript includes poetic texts, liturgical pieces, and decorations added in the 17th century, like ornate borders and a title page. Written in Hebrew on high-quality parchment, it reflects the Gothic art of Catalonia. Acquired by the British Library in 1865, it once belonged to collector Giuseppe Almanzi. This manuscript bridges Jewish artistic traditions with medieval Christian influences.
A wee unboxing video for a wee manuscript! We have looked at Ms. Codex 1248 before; see:
It's a 15th c. Italian Liturgical Miscellany, kept in a modern clamshell box.
Record: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9943817163503681
Pontifical slippers, gauntlets, saturno, stemmed frascia and cassock of Pius XII on display in the Vatican Liturgical Treasury.
From the National Geographic book Inside the Vatican, 1991.
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Midori Takada - You Who Are Leaving To Nirvana - a new album in which she adds musical accompaniment to Buddhist chants
Shomyo of Koya-san & Midori Takada YOU WHO ARE LEAVING TO NIRVANA WRWTFWW Records and MEG Museum (Geneva) are ecstatic to announce a new full length album by celebrated Japanese percussionist Midori Takada (Through The Looking Glass), in collaboration with Buddhist monks belonging to the Samgha group of the Shingon school of Koya-san, led by Reverend Syuukoh Ikawa. You Who Are Leaving To Nirvana is available on half speed mastered vinyl LP, housed in a 350gsm sleeve, with OBI, and liner notes, as well as on digipack CD. Recorded at The Premises Studio (London) and in Tokyo in 2019,You Who are Leaving to Nirvana is a majestic work combining a suite of six Buddhist liturgical chants and a musical creation by Midori Takada. The Buddhist chants come from three types of repertoires: shomyo ("Teisan", "Unga-Bai", "Sange", "Taiyo"), but also goeika ("Kannon-Daiji") and mantra ("Hannya-Singyo"). After supervising the recording of the Buddhist chants, Midori Takada added her own compositions, with subtle layers of percussion and the melodies of her beloved marimba, giving full life to the sacred texts. Reverend Syuukoh Ikawa explains: "Shomyo is a form of declamation of sacred esoteric texts, inherited over many generations. The power of words goes far beyond their mere pronunciation. I think there is something that words alone cannot really convey. If I recite prayers in a musical way, the feeling transmitted will be even stronger than if I say it normally, in everyday language. I think that the musicality of a work carries a hidden power that cannot be expressed in words alone. The setting of the music has an additional power for you and for those around you who listen to it. The words of a song are not just words set to music. They carry an additional hidden power that cannot be expressed in any other way. Listening to Midori Takada's musical performance, the words truly seem to come alive." Original recordings of the Buddhist chants are held in the International Archives of Folk Music (IAFM) at the MEG Museum in Geneva. The album sleeve features an artwork by famed Japanese sculptor Katsura Funakoshi selected by Midori Takada.
Thoughts on “Essex Serpent”
So, first of all, I’m very glad I read the book before watching the series.
Second of all, Tom Hiddleston in a sweater makes my heart happy.
After watching the first episode:
The variences from the source material are...interesting. And in some cases seem to me to change the whole timbre of the story. Not sure if that’s good bad or indifferent yet.
Spencer being not a pure-bred upper class man kind of undermines his whole characterization to me? Like, the whole point of his character is that he is the opposite of Luke Garrett. Spencer is a mediocre student, a mediocre surgeon, but he comes from All the Money, with All the Breeding, and all the power that comes with it behind him. He’s able to cover for Garrett because he has everything Garrett lacks.
The introduction of the hyperreligious/superstitious/anglocatholic curate is interesting. I’m not sure he adds anything, frankly, other than a slightly more obvious foil to Will? I don’t feel he needed a foil in that direction, but its a choice I suppose.
Nit picks from a liturgical pedant.
“Abide with me” is an interesting choice. It is traditionally sung at funerals, but also during times of distress. I’m not sure it’s one that Will would have chosen
Given that Easter was April 2, 1893, there were not that many weeks in winter that the liturgical colors would have been green. Given the timeline in the novel, Will’s stole should defintely have been purple for Lent. Having Will cross himself after finding Gracie defintely runs contrary to his Reformed characterization in the book.
The book explicitly mentions him having removed the ornate cross from the altar.