Pantagruelion » Scholia http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp Notes upon the final four chapters of Rabelais’s Third Book of Pantagruel Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:37:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Imagines Deorum, Qui Ab Antiquis Colebantur http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2012/01/28/imagines-deorum-qui-ab-antiquis-colebantur/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2012/01/28/imagines-deorum-qui-ab-antiquis-colebantur/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:37:27 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/?p=531 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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]]> http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2012/01/28/imagines-deorum-qui-ab-antiquis-colebantur/feed/ 0 Manichean avoidance of arboricide http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/12/10/manichean-avoidance-of-arboricide/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/12/10/manichean-avoidance-of-arboricide/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:13:05 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/?p=522 Continue reading →]]> 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 [not perish] with the murderer.” (p. 11, translating 7.2-4)

“[It] wasted away, [wailing] like human beings, and, as it were, like children. Alas! Alas! The blood was streaming down from the place cut by the pruning hook he held in his hands. And they were crying out in a human voice on account of their blows.” (Id., p. 13, translating 10.1-11)

Cf. also Augustine, Confessions 3.10.18 (tr. Henry Chadwick): “Gradually and unconsciously I was led to the absurd trivialities of believing that a fig weeps when it is picked, and that the fig tree its mother sheds milky tears.”

]]> http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/12/10/manichean-avoidance-of-arboricide/feed/ 0 Portraits of humanist and reformation characters http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/12/10/portraits-of-humanist-and-reformation-characters/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/12/10/portraits-of-humanist-and-reformation-characters/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:10:51 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/?p=520 Erasmus

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.”

]]> http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/12/10/portraits-of-humanist-and-reformation-characters/feed/ 0 Trees Are Like People http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/12/06/trees-are-like-people/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/12/06/trees-are-like-people/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:06:45 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/?p=517 Continue reading →]]> 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 in their case may be repeated: sap rises and falls, hair (coma) luxuriates, withers, drops off.”

]]> http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/12/06/trees-are-like-people/feed/ 0 salmagundi http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/09/22/salmagundi/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/09/22/salmagundi/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:44:53 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/09/22/salmagundi/ Continue reading →]]> 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,” (early 14c.), from O.Fr. salemine.

]]> http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/09/22/salmagundi/feed/ 0 Observations upon Scripture Plants http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/28/observations-upon-scripture-plants/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/28/observations-upon-scripture-plants/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:02:48 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/28/observations-upon-scripture-plants/ Continue reading →]]> 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 Herbs, and becometh a Tree, so that the Birds of the Air come and lodge in the Branches thereof. [113]

“Luke 13. 19. It is like a grain of Mustard-seed, which a Man took and cast it into his Garden, and it waxed a great Tree, and the Fowls of the Air lodged in the Branches thereof.

“This expression by a grain of Mustard-seed, will not seem so strange unto you, who well consider it. That it is simply the least of Seeds, you cannot apprehend, if you have beheld the Seeds of Rapunculus, Marjorane, Tobacco, and the smallest Seed of Lunaria.

“But you may well understand it to be the smallest Seed among Herbs which produce so big a Plant, or the least of herbal Plants, which arise unto such a proportion, implied in the expression; the smallest of Seeds, and becometh the greatest of Herbs.

“And you may also grant that it is the smallest of Seeds of Plants apt to [], arborescere, fruticescere, or to grow unto a ligneous substance, and from an herby and oleraceous Vegetable, to become a kind of Tree, and to be accounted among the Dendrolachana, or Arboroleracea; as upon strong Seed, Culture and good Ground, is observable in some Cabbages, Mallows, and many more… [114]“

]]> http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/28/observations-upon-scripture-plants/feed/ 0 Five http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/23/johnsons-life-of-browne/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/23/johnsons-life-of-browne/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:38:49 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/?p=478 Continue reading →]]> 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 of architecture, and five acts of a play. And observing that five was the antient conjugal or wedding number, he proceeds to a speculation, which I shall give in his own words; “the antient numerists made out the conjugal number by two and three, the first parity and imparity, the active and passive digits, the material and formal principles in generative societies.”28″

]]> http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/23/johnsons-life-of-browne/feed/ 0 Vulgar Errors III.xiv: The Salamander http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/23/vulgar-errors-iii-xiv-the-salamander/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/23/vulgar-errors-iii-xiv-the-salamander/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:44:14 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/?p=474 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.”

]]> http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/23/vulgar-errors-iii-xiv-the-salamander/feed/ 0 Of messes in pots http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/18/of-messes-in-pots/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/18/of-messes-in-pots/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:38:27 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/18/of-messes-in-pots/ Continue reading →]]> 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 be traced back to the French salmigondis, but there the etymological trail goes cold, though theories abound). Like its name it was a rather variable dish. Elizabeth Moxon, in her English Housewife in 1764, describes it as a Lenten dish and instructs the cook to take “herrings, a quarter of a pound of anchovies, a large apple, a little onion … or shalot, and a little lemon-peel” and shred them all together. Other recipes suggested eggs, chicken, almonds, grapes, and raisins as ingredients. This highly variable mix led salmagundi later to take on the sense of a mixture or miscellany. Solomon Gundy was also sometimes known as Solomon Grundy, which may explain the nursery rhyme about “Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday …” and the name of Mrs Grundy, the personification of social conformity and disapproval, whose name first appears in Thomas Morton’s play Speed the Plough in 1798.”

]]> http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/06/18/of-messes-in-pots/feed/ 0 The Pantropheon http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/05/30/the-pantropheon/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/05/30/the-pantropheon/#comments Mon, 30 May 2011 20:10:04 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/?p=438 Continue reading →]]> 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 be spun and made onto ropes, well and good; but to regale one’s-self with it after dinner, — when the stomach is overloaded with food, and hardly moved from its lethargic quietude by the appearance of the most provoking viands that art can invent — what depravity! What strange perversion of the most simple elements of gastronomy!” [Note 18: Bruyerin, Jean-Baptiste, De re cibaria (1560), vii. 13.]

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