Category Archives: Scholia

Imagines Deorum, Qui Ab Antiquis Colebantur

Uni Mannheim: Cartari, Vincenzo (1531 – nach 1571), Imagines Deorum, Qui Ab Antiquis Colebantur: In quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaq[ue] ex parte veterum religio explicatur…

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Manichean avoidance of arboricide

Laudator Temporis Acti:: “The Cologne Mani Codex (P. Colon. inv. nr. 4780) “Concerning the Origin of His Body”, tr. Ron Cameron and Arthur J. Dewey (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1979) “If you keep the [pain] away from us (trees), you will … Continue reading

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Portraits of humanist and reformation characters

Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim: “Boissard, Jean-Jacques; Bry, Theodor de: Bibliotheca chalcographica, hoc est Virtute et eruditione clarorum Virorum Imagines. Heidelberg: Clemens Ammon, 1669. “Diese Sammlung von 438 Gelehrtenbildnissen repräsentiert eine Gattung, die das Selbstverständnis von Humanisten und Reformatoren in charakteristischer Weise ausdrückt.”

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Trees Are Like People

Laudator Temporis Acti: “Trees are like people. They have a head (vertex), a trunk (truncus), arms (bracchia). They stand tall like a soldier, or look as slender as a bridegroom (Sappho, 115 L-P). Their life moves in human rhythms, which … Continue reading

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salmagundi

Online Etymology Dictionary: salmagundi — 1670s, from Fr. salmigondis, originally “seasoned salt meats” (cf. Fr. salmis “salted meats”), from M.Fr. salmigondin, coined by Rabelais, of uncertain origin, but probably related to salomene “hodgepodge of meats or fish cooked in wine,” … Continue reading

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Observations upon Scripture Plants

Sir Thomas Browne: “23. The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a grain of Mustard-seed, which a Man took and sowed in his Field, which indeed is the least of all Seeds; but when ’tis grown is the greatest among … Continue reading

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Five

Johnson’s Life of Browne: “[Browne] is then naturally led to treat of the number five; and finds, that by this number many things are circumscribed; that there are five kinds of vegetable productions, five sections of a cone, five orders … Continue reading

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Vulgar Errors III.xiv: The Salamander

Sir Thomas Browne: “THAT a Salamander is able to live in flames, to endure and put out fire, is an assertion, not only of great antiquity, but confirmed by frequent, and not contemptible testimony.”

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Of messes in pots

World Wide Words: “Pepys doesn’t record salmagundi because the name is first recorded shortly after he stopped writing his diary for fear of his eyesight failing. It has been known by many names, including salladmagundy and Solomon Gundy (it can … Continue reading

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The Pantropheon

Google Books: The Pantropheon: or, History of food and its preparation, by Alexis Soyer, 1853. Chapter 6, Grains: Seeds, p. 48: “Shall we mention Hempseed, the Cannabis of the ancients, which was served fried for dessert? [18] That hemp should … Continue reading

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