muspeccoll:

To follow up on our post last week, here’s the other manuscript we purchased this year.  This is a ferial psalter in a small, portable size; you can see in the photos above that it’s just right to hold in one hand.  We think it was produced around the end of the fifteenth century in Brescia, because the saints venerated in that city are highlighted in red in the calendar.  

Whoever owned or decorated this manuscript had a fondness for floral designs and intricate penwork.  There’s even a tiny smiling face in the penwork on fol. 82v!

– Kelli

Ferial Psalter and Breviary (use of the Roman curia). [Brescia?, Lombardy, Italy] : [Producer not identified], [approximately 1480].  MU Ellis Special Collections Rare Vault BX2033 .A2 1480  

unexplained-events:

The Poison Garden

Established in 2005 by the Duchess of Northumberland. The garden contains over 100 deadly and hallucinogenic plants. 

’I wondered why so many gardens around the world focused on the healing power of plants rather than their ability to kill… I felt that most children I knew would be more interested in hearing how a plant killed, how long it would take you to die if you ate it and how gruesome and painful the death might be.’

-The Duchess of Northumberland 

Kiss With a Fist – Sign ups!

blacklotus-ffxiv:

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Feeling like a kiss just isn’t the right way to show affection to those around you? Feel your knuckles whitening at this time of the year? Sign up for Kiss with a Fist! Keepers Kiss presents something special this moon, hosting an inaugural fight night, complete with gambling!

Fighters, try your hand at unarmed combat where no hit is below the belt! Slots are limited with only sixteen slots, so if you’re going to be there, sign up early!

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Tonight!

((Not a prize-fighting fan IC but good art, and somebody might be interested!

coolthingoftheday:

Located in West Pomerania, Poland, the Crooked Forest is a strand of about four hundred pine trees that are oddly bent at ninety-degree angles. Although it has been theorized that the trees were shaped by human hands around the 1930s, this theory is still widely disputed, and it is ultimately unknown who or what created this phenomenon.