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Create very compact and simplified views of public Amazon wish lists.. The views are bookmarkable and stay in synch with the referenced wish list. They can be printed out and kept as an offline reference. XEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles:XEFER ARCHIVE
subscribe · archives · iuncturæ · projects. Archive October 2013. Earliest View of London; September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars byPhobos
AMAZON WISHLIST VIEWER Bookmarklet. This bookmarklet allows a user to generate a compact wishlist by selecting the bookmark when on the Amazon wishlist page itself. Drag the following link to your Favorites menu (or Link bar if you use one.) Compact Wishlist Viewer: WishlistViewer. This GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
CELLULAR AUTOMATA: RULE 110 notes. The above is a randomly generated, one-dimensional cellular automaton, using Rule 110.This version is written in JavaScript and is generated at the client. GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORD “THE” A Short History of the Word “The” Note: I recently added a part 2 to this entry here.. I’ve always been fascinated by the evolution of languages. But how is it that even a language’s most fundamental words, such as the definite article “the,” came into being? ONE IOTA: HOMOIOUSIOS AND HOMOOUSIOS One of the more fundamental and earliest controversies within the Christian Church centered around the ideas identified by two Greek words: homoiousios (ηομο ι ουσιος), meaning “of a similar substance,” and homoousios (ηομοουσιος), meaning “of the same substance”; two words that differ by a single letter: iota. . In fact, in his “History of Christianity DROPKICK MURPHY’S AT BELLOWS FARM Dropkick Murphy’s at Bellows Farm While the Dropkick Murphys are a fine group, I’ve always been more interested in the name of the band itself. Members have always told that they took the name from a supposed detox center, owned and operated by a former wrestler by the name of John “Dropkick” Murphy. The Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has salted his columns with mentions of thePROJECTS - XEFER
Create very compact and simplified views of public Amazon wish lists.. The views are bookmarkable and stay in synch with the referenced wish list. They can be printed out and kept as an offline reference. XEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles:XEFER ARCHIVE
subscribe · archives · iuncturæ · projects. Archive October 2013. Earliest View of London; September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars byPhobos
AMAZON WISHLIST VIEWER Bookmarklet. This bookmarklet allows a user to generate a compact wishlist by selecting the bookmark when on the Amazon wishlist page itself. Drag the following link to your Favorites menu (or Link bar if you use one.) Compact Wishlist Viewer: WishlistViewer. This GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
CELLULAR AUTOMATA: RULE 110 notes. The above is a randomly generated, one-dimensional cellular automaton, using Rule 110.This version is written in JavaScript and is generated at the client. GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORD “THE” A Short History of the Word “The” Note: I recently added a part 2 to this entry here.. I’ve always been fascinated by the evolution of languages. But how is it that even a language’s most fundamental words, such as the definite article “the,” came into being? ONE IOTA: HOMOIOUSIOS AND HOMOOUSIOS One of the more fundamental and earliest controversies within the Christian Church centered around the ideas identified by two Greek words: homoiousios (ηομο ι ουσιος), meaning “of a similar substance,” and homoousios (ηομοουσιος), meaning “of the same substance”; two words that differ by a single letter: iota. . In fact, in his “History of Christianity DROPKICK MURPHY’S AT BELLOWS FARM Dropkick Murphy’s at Bellows Farm While the Dropkick Murphys are a fine group, I’ve always been more interested in the name of the band itself. Members have always told that they took the name from a supposed detox center, owned and operated by a former wrestler by the name of John “Dropkick” Murphy. The Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has salted his columns with mentions of theXEFER
W. G. Sebald, on a physical manifestation of collective guilt: “And indeed, to this day one sees in Belgium a distinctive ugliness, dating from the time when the Congo colony was exploited without restraint and manifested in a macabre atmosphere of certain salons and the strikingly stunted growth of the population, such as one rarely comesacross elsewhere.
IUNCTURAE XEFERARUM
W. G. Sebald, on a physical manifestation of collective guilt: “And indeed, to this day one sees in Belgium a distinctive ugliness, dating from the time when the Congo colony was exploited without restraint and manifested in a macabre atmosphere of certain salons and the strikingly stunted growth of the population, such as one rarely comesacross elsewhere.
GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
AMAZON WISHLIST VIEWER Bookmarklet. This bookmarklet allows a user to generate a compact wishlist by selecting the bookmark when on the Amazon wishlist page itself. Drag the following link to your Favorites menu (or Link bar if you use one.) Compact Wishlist Viewer: WishlistViewer. This GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper ClippingMAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → →TWITTER CHARTS
Sorry: This project was built on Yahoo Pipes which has been shutdown {tweets must be publicly available}EXECUTION CEREMONY
The circumstance which forms the subject of this paper was witnessed in November, 1884, at Loukolela, by Mr. E. J. Glave.So far as known by the writer, this is the first time that an account of the Bayanzi or a similar execution has ever been published.SHACKLETON - XEFER
Shackleton I was lucky enough to pick up a first edition of Ernest Shackleton’s “Heart of the Antarctic” a number of years ago, before the recent huge rise in interest in the explorer pushed the prices of his books so high. It’s an account of his failed 1907-1909 British Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole during which he was forced to turn back less than 100 miles from his goal.GOTHICA BONONIENSIA
1 Finazzi, Rosa Bianca; Tornaghi, Paola. Gothica Bononiensia: Analisi linguistica e filologica di un nuovo documento, Aevum, 87 (2013), fasc. 1, pp. 113-155), ISSN XEFERSUBSCRIBEARCHIVESIUNCTURÆPROJECTSXEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Weather Station “Kurt”, officially WFL-26 (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an automated weather station installed in Northern Laborador on October 22, 1943, by a team from the German submarine U-537. It was the only German armed military operation on mainland North American during World War II. Northern tip of Labrador.PROJECTS - XEFER
Cellular Automaton. Generate a one-dimensional cellular automaton . There is a Java-based server-side version and JavaScript-based client-side version . This is more an exercise in the toying with browser capabilities disguised as an art project than anything ofspecific use.
XEFER ARCHIVE
September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars by Phobos. July 2013. Gothica Bononiensia. March 2013. Weather Station Kurt. The Phallus Tree of fr. 25526. February 2013. Massachusetts, 1810. XEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles: GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping CELLULAR AUTOMATA: RULE 110 notes. The above is a randomly generated, one-dimensional cellular automaton, using Rule 110.This version is written in JavaScript and is generated at the client.MAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → → GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORD “THE” Two things occurred to give us the current undeclined word “the.”. First, by Late Old English, the forms “se and séo” became “þe” influenced by the other forms which all began with þ. Second, throughout the course of Middle English, the whole declension and gender system began to give way, so that all the other forms otherthan
ALL ROADS LEAD TO “PHILOSOPHY” All Roads Lead to “Philosophy”. There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” 1 This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use moregeneral terms.
XEFERSUBSCRIBEARCHIVESIUNCTURÆPROJECTSXEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Weather Station “Kurt”, officially WFL-26 (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an automated weather station installed in Northern Laborador on October 22, 1943, by a team from the German submarine U-537. It was the only German armed military operation on mainland North American during World War II. Northern tip of Labrador.PROJECTS - XEFER
Cellular Automaton. Generate a one-dimensional cellular automaton . There is a Java-based server-side version and JavaScript-based client-side version . This is more an exercise in the toying with browser capabilities disguised as an art project than anything ofspecific use.
XEFER ARCHIVE
September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars by Phobos. July 2013. Gothica Bononiensia. March 2013. Weather Station Kurt. The Phallus Tree of fr. 25526. February 2013. Massachusetts, 1810. XEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles: GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping CELLULAR AUTOMATA: RULE 110 notes. The above is a randomly generated, one-dimensional cellular automaton, using Rule 110.This version is written in JavaScript and is generated at the client.MAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → → GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORD “THE” Two things occurred to give us the current undeclined word “the.”. First, by Late Old English, the forms “se and séo” became “þe” influenced by the other forms which all began with þ. Second, throughout the course of Middle English, the whole declension and gender system began to give way, so that all the other forms otherthan
ALL ROADS LEAD TO “PHILOSOPHY” All Roads Lead to “Philosophy”. There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” 1 This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use moregeneral terms.
GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper ClippingMAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → → GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
AMAZON WISHLIST VIEWER Bookmarklet. This bookmarklet allows a user to generate a compact wishlist by selecting the bookmark when on the Amazon wishlist page itself. Drag the following link to your Favorites menu (or Link bar if you use one.) Compact Wishlist Viewer: WishlistViewer. ThisTWITTER CHARTS
Sorry: This project was built on Yahoo Pipes which has been shutdown {tweets must be publicly available}MIND YOUR MANNERS
Mind Your Manners. The Renaissance saw a rise in the appreciation of manners and respectable behavior as the growth of cities and trade brought together men of diverse backgrounds. This led to the publication of many books on the subject, even though the topic itself may have been seen as somewhat crass. As Erasmus says in De Civitate:“I do
CABEZA DE VACA
Preface. THIS SIXTEENTH-CENTURY odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca's is one of the great true epics of history. It is the semi-official report to the king of Spain by the ranking surviving officer of a royal expedition to conquer Florida which fantastically miscarried.SIAMESE - XEFER.COM
This short book by the Norwegian author Stig Sæterbakken is a darkly comic novel about the interior life of an elderly couple, Edwin and Erna Mortens, trapped together by their own neuroses and physical ailments. Edwin, who has become blind, spends his days confined to a rocking chair in his bathroom, chewing gum and screaming at his wife.SHACKLETON - XEFER
Shackleton I was lucky enough to pick up a first edition of Ernest Shackleton’s “Heart of the Antarctic” a number of years ago, before the recent huge rise in interest in the explorer pushed the prices of his books so high. It’s an account of his failed 1907-1909 British Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole during which he was forced to turn back less than 100 miles from his goal. DROPKICK MURPHY’S AT BELLOWS FARM Dropkick Murphy’s at Bellows Farm While the Dropkick Murphys are a fine group, I’ve always been more interested in the name of the band itself. Members have always told that they took the name from a supposed detox center, owned and operated by a former wrestler by the name of John “Dropkick” Murphy. The Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has salted his columns with mentions of thePROJECTS - XEFER
Cellular Automaton. Generate a one-dimensional cellular automaton . There is a Java-based server-side version and JavaScript-based client-side version . This is more an exercise in the toying with browser capabilities disguised as an art project than anything ofspecific use.
XEFER ARCHIVE
September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars by Phobos. July 2013. Gothica Bononiensia. March 2013. Weather Station Kurt. The Phallus Tree of fr. 25526. February 2013. Massachusetts, 1810. XEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles: GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping CELLULAR AUTOMATA: RULE 110 notes. The above is a randomly generated, one-dimensional cellular automaton, using Rule 110.This version is written in JavaScript and is generated at the client. GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORD “THE” Two things occurred to give us the current undeclined word “the.”. First, by Late Old English, the forms “se and séo” became “þe” influenced by the other forms which all began with þ. Second, throughout the course of Middle English, the whole declension and gender system began to give way, so that all the other forms otherthan
THE LUNAR ARCTIC CIRCLE The short answer is “yes”, though it is a much more dynamic one than the more familiar solar Arctic Circle. Unlike most moons, the orbit of our Moon is inclined relative to the Earth’s elliptic, the plane of its orbit around the Sun, as opposed to being relative the the Earth’s equator. 1 The lunar inclination is approximately, 5°8′.
MAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → → DROPKICK MURPHY’S AT BELLOWS FARM Dropkick Murphy’s at Bellows Farm While the Dropkick Murphys are a fine group, I’ve always been more interested in the name of the band itself. Members have always told that they took the name from a supposed detox center, owned and operated by a former wrestler by the name of John “Dropkick” Murphy. The Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has salted his columns with mentions of thePROJECTS - XEFER
Cellular Automaton. Generate a one-dimensional cellular automaton . There is a Java-based server-side version and JavaScript-based client-side version . This is more an exercise in the toying with browser capabilities disguised as an art project than anything ofspecific use.
XEFER ARCHIVE
September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars by Phobos. July 2013. Gothica Bononiensia. March 2013. Weather Station Kurt. The Phallus Tree of fr. 25526. February 2013. Massachusetts, 1810. XEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles: GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping CELLULAR AUTOMATA: RULE 110 notes. The above is a randomly generated, one-dimensional cellular automaton, using Rule 110.This version is written in JavaScript and is generated at the client. GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORD “THE” Two things occurred to give us the current undeclined word “the.”. First, by Late Old English, the forms “se and séo” became “þe” influenced by the other forms which all began with þ. Second, throughout the course of Middle English, the whole declension and gender system began to give way, so that all the other forms otherthan
THE LUNAR ARCTIC CIRCLE The short answer is “yes”, though it is a much more dynamic one than the more familiar solar Arctic Circle. Unlike most moons, the orbit of our Moon is inclined relative to the Earth’s elliptic, the plane of its orbit around the Sun, as opposed to being relative the the Earth’s equator. 1 The lunar inclination is approximately, 5°8′.
MAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → → DROPKICK MURPHY’S AT BELLOWS FARM Dropkick Murphy’s at Bellows Farm While the Dropkick Murphys are a fine group, I’ve always been more interested in the name of the band itself. Members have always told that they took the name from a supposed detox center, owned and operated by a former wrestler by the name of John “Dropkick” Murphy. The Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has salted his columns with mentions of theXEFER
Weather Station “Kurt”, officially WFL-26 (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an automated weather station installed in Northern Laborador on October 22, 1943, by a team from the German submarine U-537. It was the only German armed military operation on mainland North American during World War II. Northern tip of Labrador. GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
AMAZON WISHLIST VIEWER Bookmarklet. This bookmarklet allows a user to generate a compact wishlist by selecting the bookmark when on the Amazon wishlist page itself. Drag the following link to your Favorites menu (or Link bar if you use one.) Compact Wishlist Viewer: WishlistViewer. ThisTWITTER CHARTS
Sorry: This project was built on Yahoo Pipes which has been shutdown {tweets must be publicly available}IUNCTURAE XEFERARUM
iuncturae xeferarum. October 7, 2013. Collective Guilt ≡. W. G. Sebald, on a physical manifestation of collective guilt: “And indeed, to this day one sees in Belgium a distinctive ugliness, dating from the time when the Congo colony was exploited without restraint and manifested in a macabre atmosphere of certain salons and thestrikingly
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT The Attempted Assassination of Theodore Roosevelt. T eddy Roosevelt, was shot by anarchist William Schrenk just outside the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee, Wisconsin while on his way to give a speech on this date in 1912. The bullet perforated the manuscript that he had prepared and lodged in his chest, but he refused medical attention andwent
EXECUTION CEREMONY
Execution Ceremony Several years ago an end-piece in New Scientist magazine asked that timeless question, “How long is one aware after being beheaded?”. Among the reader comments was this bit of grotesquery, so vivid it borders on the poetic: Dr Livingstone wrote that Africans he encountered were aware that consciousness is not lostimmediately.
SHACKLETON - XEFER
Shackleton I was lucky enough to pick up a first edition of Ernest Shackleton’s “Heart of the Antarctic” a number of years ago, before the recent huge rise in interest in the explorer pushed the prices of his books so high. It’s an account of his failed 1907-1909 British Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole during which he was forced to turn back less than 100 miles from his goal. ALL ROADS LEAD TO “PHILOSOPHY” All Roads Lead to “Philosophy”. There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” 1 This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use moregeneral terms.
PROJECTS - XEFER
Cellular Automaton. Generate a one-dimensional cellular automaton . There is a Java-based server-side version and JavaScript-based client-side version . This is more an exercise in the toying with browser capabilities disguised as an art project than anything ofspecific use.
XEFER ARCHIVE
September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars by Phobos. July 2013. Gothica Bononiensia. March 2013. Weather Station Kurt. The Phallus Tree of fr. 25526. February 2013. Massachusetts, 1810. XEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles: GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping CELLULAR AUTOMATA: RULE 110 notes. The above is a randomly generated, one-dimensional cellular automaton, using Rule 110.This version is written in JavaScript and is generated at the client. GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORD “THE” Two things occurred to give us the current undeclined word “the.”. First, by Late Old English, the forms “se and séo” became “þe” influenced by the other forms which all began with þ. Second, throughout the course of Middle English, the whole declension and gender system began to give way, so that all the other forms otherthan
THE LUNAR ARCTIC CIRCLE The short answer is “yes”, though it is a much more dynamic one than the more familiar solar Arctic Circle. Unlike most moons, the orbit of our Moon is inclined relative to the Earth’s elliptic, the plane of its orbit around the Sun, as opposed to being relative the the Earth’s equator. 1 The lunar inclination is approximately, 5°8′.
MAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → → DROPKICK MURPHY’S AT BELLOWS FARM Dropkick Murphy’s at Bellows Farm While the Dropkick Murphys are a fine group, I’ve always been more interested in the name of the band itself. Members have always told that they took the name from a supposed detox center, owned and operated by a former wrestler by the name of John “Dropkick” Murphy. The Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has salted his columns with mentions of thePROJECTS - XEFER
Cellular Automaton. Generate a one-dimensional cellular automaton . There is a Java-based server-side version and JavaScript-based client-side version . This is more an exercise in the toying with browser capabilities disguised as an art project than anything ofspecific use.
XEFER ARCHIVE
September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars by Phobos. July 2013. Gothica Bononiensia. March 2013. Weather Station Kurt. The Phallus Tree of fr. 25526. February 2013. Massachusetts, 1810. XEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles: GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping CELLULAR AUTOMATA: RULE 110 notes. The above is a randomly generated, one-dimensional cellular automaton, using Rule 110.This version is written in JavaScript and is generated at the client. GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORD “THE” Two things occurred to give us the current undeclined word “the.”. First, by Late Old English, the forms “se and séo” became “þe” influenced by the other forms which all began with þ. Second, throughout the course of Middle English, the whole declension and gender system began to give way, so that all the other forms otherthan
THE LUNAR ARCTIC CIRCLE The short answer is “yes”, though it is a much more dynamic one than the more familiar solar Arctic Circle. Unlike most moons, the orbit of our Moon is inclined relative to the Earth’s elliptic, the plane of its orbit around the Sun, as opposed to being relative the the Earth’s equator. 1 The lunar inclination is approximately, 5°8′.
MAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → → DROPKICK MURPHY’S AT BELLOWS FARM Dropkick Murphy’s at Bellows Farm While the Dropkick Murphys are a fine group, I’ve always been more interested in the name of the band itself. Members have always told that they took the name from a supposed detox center, owned and operated by a former wrestler by the name of John “Dropkick” Murphy. The Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has salted his columns with mentions of theXEFER
Weather Station “Kurt”, officially WFL-26 (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an automated weather station installed in Northern Laborador on October 22, 1943, by a team from the German submarine U-537. It was the only German armed military operation on mainland North American during World War II. Northern tip of Labrador. GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
AMAZON WISHLIST VIEWER Bookmarklet. This bookmarklet allows a user to generate a compact wishlist by selecting the bookmark when on the Amazon wishlist page itself. Drag the following link to your Favorites menu (or Link bar if you use one.) Compact Wishlist Viewer: WishlistViewer. ThisTWITTER CHARTS
Sorry: This project was built on Yahoo Pipes which has been shutdown {tweets must be publicly available}IUNCTURAE XEFERARUM
iuncturae xeferarum. October 7, 2013. Collective Guilt ≡. W. G. Sebald, on a physical manifestation of collective guilt: “And indeed, to this day one sees in Belgium a distinctive ugliness, dating from the time when the Congo colony was exploited without restraint and manifested in a macabre atmosphere of certain salons and thestrikingly
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT The Attempted Assassination of Theodore Roosevelt. T eddy Roosevelt, was shot by anarchist William Schrenk just outside the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee, Wisconsin while on his way to give a speech on this date in 1912. The bullet perforated the manuscript that he had prepared and lodged in his chest, but he refused medical attention andwent
EXECUTION CEREMONY
Execution Ceremony Several years ago an end-piece in New Scientist magazine asked that timeless question, “How long is one aware after being beheaded?”. Among the reader comments was this bit of grotesquery, so vivid it borders on the poetic: Dr Livingstone wrote that Africans he encountered were aware that consciousness is not lostimmediately.
SHACKLETON - XEFER
Shackleton I was lucky enough to pick up a first edition of Ernest Shackleton’s “Heart of the Antarctic” a number of years ago, before the recent huge rise in interest in the explorer pushed the prices of his books so high. It’s an account of his failed 1907-1909 British Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole during which he was forced to turn back less than 100 miles from his goal. ALL ROADS LEAD TO “PHILOSOPHY” All Roads Lead to “Philosophy”. There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” 1 This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use moregeneral terms.
PROJECTS - XEFER
Cellular Automaton. Generate a one-dimensional cellular automaton . There is a Java-based server-side version and JavaScript-based client-side version . This is more an exercise in the toying with browser capabilities disguised as an art project than anything ofspecific use.
XEFER ARCHIVE
September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars by Phobos. July 2013. Gothica Bononiensia. March 2013. Weather Station Kurt. The Phallus Tree of fr. 25526. February 2013. Massachusetts, 1810. XEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles: GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping CELLULAR AUTOMATA: RULE 110 notes. The above is a randomly generated, one-dimensional cellular automaton, using Rule 110.This version is written in JavaScript and is generated at the client. GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
THE LUNAR ARCTIC CIRCLE The short answer is “yes”, though it is a much more dynamic one than the more familiar solar Arctic Circle. Unlike most moons, the orbit of our Moon is inclined relative to the Earth’s elliptic, the plane of its orbit around the Sun, as opposed to being relative the the Earth’s equator. 1 The lunar inclination is approximately, 5°8′.
MAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → → ALL ROADS LEAD TO “PHILOSOPHY” All Roads Lead to “Philosophy”. There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” 1 This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use moregeneral terms.
DROPKICK MURPHY’S AT BELLOWS FARM Dropkick Murphy’s at Bellows Farm While the Dropkick Murphys are a fine group, I’ve always been more interested in the name of the band itself. Members have always told that they took the name from a supposed detox center, owned and operated by a former wrestler by the name of John “Dropkick” Murphy. The Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has salted his columns with mentions of thePROJECTS - XEFER
Cellular Automaton. Generate a one-dimensional cellular automaton . There is a Java-based server-side version and JavaScript-based client-side version . This is more an exercise in the toying with browser capabilities disguised as an art project than anything ofspecific use.
XEFER ARCHIVE
September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars by Phobos. July 2013. Gothica Bononiensia. March 2013. Weather Station Kurt. The Phallus Tree of fr. 25526. February 2013. Massachusetts, 1810. XEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles: GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping CELLULAR AUTOMATA: RULE 110 notes. The above is a randomly generated, one-dimensional cellular automaton, using Rule 110.This version is written in JavaScript and is generated at the client. GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
THE LUNAR ARCTIC CIRCLE The short answer is “yes”, though it is a much more dynamic one than the more familiar solar Arctic Circle. Unlike most moons, the orbit of our Moon is inclined relative to the Earth’s elliptic, the plane of its orbit around the Sun, as opposed to being relative the the Earth’s equator. 1 The lunar inclination is approximately, 5°8′.
MAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → → ALL ROADS LEAD TO “PHILOSOPHY” All Roads Lead to “Philosophy”. There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” 1 This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use moregeneral terms.
DROPKICK MURPHY’S AT BELLOWS FARM Dropkick Murphy’s at Bellows Farm While the Dropkick Murphys are a fine group, I’ve always been more interested in the name of the band itself. Members have always told that they took the name from a supposed detox center, owned and operated by a former wrestler by the name of John “Dropkick” Murphy. The Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has salted his columns with mentions of theXEFER ARCHIVE
September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars by Phobos. July 2013. Gothica Bononiensia. March 2013. Weather Station Kurt. The Phallus Tree of fr. 25526. February 2013. Massachusetts, 1810. GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping AMAZON WISHLIST VIEWER Bookmarklet. This bookmarklet allows a user to generate a compact wishlist by selecting the bookmark when on the Amazon wishlist page itself. Drag the following link to your Favorites menu (or Link bar if you use one.) Compact Wishlist Viewer: WishlistViewer. This A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORD “THE” Two things occurred to give us the current undeclined word “the.”. First, by Late Old English, the forms “se and séo” became “þe” influenced by the other forms which all began with þ. Second, throughout the course of Middle English, the whole declension and gender system began to give way, so that all the other forms otherthan
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Generate Solve → → →GOTHICA BONONIENSIA
1 Finazzi, Rosa Bianca; Tornaghi, Paola. Gothica Bononiensia: Analisi linguistica e filologica di un nuovo documento, Aevum, 87 (2013), fasc. 1, pp. 113-155), ISSN THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT The Attempted Assassination of Theodore Roosevelt. T eddy Roosevelt, was shot by anarchist William Schrenk just outside the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee, Wisconsin while on his way to give a speech on this date in 1912. The bullet perforated the manuscript that he had prepared and lodged in his chest, but he refused medical attention andwent
IUNCTURAE XEFERARUM
iuncturae xeferarum. October 7, 2013. Collective Guilt ≡. W. G. Sebald, on a physical manifestation of collective guilt: “And indeed, to this day one sees in Belgium a distinctive ugliness, dating from the time when the Congo colony was exploited without restraint and manifested in a macabre atmosphere of certain salons and thestrikingly
ALL ROADS LEAD TO “PHILOSOPHY” All Roads Lead to “Philosophy”. There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” 1 This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use moregeneral terms.
SHACKLETON - XEFER
Shackleton I was lucky enough to pick up a first edition of Ernest Shackleton’s “Heart of the Antarctic” a number of years ago, before the recent huge rise in interest in the explorer pushed the prices of his books so high. It’s an account of his failed 1907-1909 British Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole during which he was forced to turn back less than 100 miles from his goal.PROJECTS - XEFER
Cellular Automaton. Generate a one-dimensional cellular automaton . There is a Java-based server-side version and JavaScript-based client-side version . This is more an exercise in the toying with browser capabilities disguised as an art project than anything ofspecific use.
XEFER ARCHIVE
September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars by Phobos. July 2013. Gothica Bononiensia. March 2013. Weather Station Kurt. The Phallus Tree of fr. 25526. February 2013. Massachusetts, 1810. XEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles: GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping CELLULAR AUTOMATA: RULE 110 notes. The above is a randomly generated, one-dimensional cellular automaton, using Rule 110.This version is written in JavaScript and is generated at the client. GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
THE LUNAR ARCTIC CIRCLE The short answer is “yes”, though it is a much more dynamic one than the more familiar solar Arctic Circle. Unlike most moons, the orbit of our Moon is inclined relative to the Earth’s elliptic, the plane of its orbit around the Sun, as opposed to being relative the the Earth’s equator. 1 The lunar inclination is approximately, 5°8′.
MAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → → ALL ROADS LEAD TO “PHILOSOPHY” All Roads Lead to “Philosophy”. There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” 1 This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use moregeneral terms.
DROPKICK MURPHY’S AT BELLOWS FARM Dropkick Murphy’s at Bellows Farm While the Dropkick Murphys are a fine group, I’ve always been more interested in the name of the band itself. Members have always told that they took the name from a supposed detox center, owned and operated by a former wrestler by the name of John “Dropkick” Murphy. The Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has salted his columns with mentions of thePROJECTS - XEFER
Cellular Automaton. Generate a one-dimensional cellular automaton . There is a Java-based server-side version and JavaScript-based client-side version . This is more an exercise in the toying with browser capabilities disguised as an art project than anything ofspecific use.
XEFER ARCHIVE
September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars by Phobos. July 2013. Gothica Bononiensia. March 2013. Weather Station Kurt. The Phallus Tree of fr. 25526. February 2013. Massachusetts, 1810. XEFER WIKIPEDIA RADIAL GRAPH Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles: GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping CELLULAR AUTOMATA: RULE 110 notes. The above is a randomly generated, one-dimensional cellular automaton, using Rule 110.This version is written in JavaScript and is generated at the client. GAME OF LIFE IN HTML 4 Conway's Game of Life in HTML 4. Rows: Columns: New Run Stop ClearGeneration: 0
THE LUNAR ARCTIC CIRCLE The short answer is “yes”, though it is a much more dynamic one than the more familiar solar Arctic Circle. Unlike most moons, the orbit of our Moon is inclined relative to the Earth’s elliptic, the plane of its orbit around the Sun, as opposed to being relative the the Earth’s equator. 1 The lunar inclination is approximately, 5°8′.
MAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → → ALL ROADS LEAD TO “PHILOSOPHY” All Roads Lead to “Philosophy”. There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” 1 This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use moregeneral terms.
DROPKICK MURPHY’S AT BELLOWS FARM Dropkick Murphy’s at Bellows Farm While the Dropkick Murphys are a fine group, I’ve always been more interested in the name of the band itself. Members have always told that they took the name from a supposed detox center, owned and operated by a former wrestler by the name of John “Dropkick” Murphy. The Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has salted his columns with mentions of theXEFER ARCHIVE
September 2013. Annular Eclipse on Mars by Phobos. July 2013. Gothica Bononiensia. March 2013. Weather Station Kurt. The Phallus Tree of fr. 25526. February 2013. Massachusetts, 1810. GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS Name: Date: Document: John Wynter: 1566: Full Document: Margaret Winter: 1760: Full Document: 1972: Newspaper Clipping AMAZON WISHLIST VIEWER Bookmarklet. This bookmarklet allows a user to generate a compact wishlist by selecting the bookmark when on the Amazon wishlist page itself. Drag the following link to your Favorites menu (or Link bar if you use one.) Compact Wishlist Viewer: WishlistViewer. This A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORD “THE” Two things occurred to give us the current undeclined word “the.”. First, by Late Old English, the forms “se and séo” became “þe” influenced by the other forms which all began with þ. Second, throughout the course of Middle English, the whole declension and gender system began to give way, so that all the other forms otherthan
MAZE GENERATOR
Generate Solve → → →GOTHICA BONONIENSIA
1 Finazzi, Rosa Bianca; Tornaghi, Paola. Gothica Bononiensia: Analisi linguistica e filologica di un nuovo documento, Aevum, 87 (2013), fasc. 1, pp. 113-155), ISSN THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT The Attempted Assassination of Theodore Roosevelt. T eddy Roosevelt, was shot by anarchist William Schrenk just outside the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee, Wisconsin while on his way to give a speech on this date in 1912. The bullet perforated the manuscript that he had prepared and lodged in his chest, but he refused medical attention andwent
IUNCTURAE XEFERARUM
iuncturae xeferarum. October 7, 2013. Collective Guilt ≡. W. G. Sebald, on a physical manifestation of collective guilt: “And indeed, to this day one sees in Belgium a distinctive ugliness, dating from the time when the Congo colony was exploited without restraint and manifested in a macabre atmosphere of certain salons and thestrikingly
ALL ROADS LEAD TO “PHILOSOPHY” All Roads Lead to “Philosophy”. There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” 1 This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use moregeneral terms.
SHACKLETON - XEFER
Shackleton I was lucky enough to pick up a first edition of Ernest Shackleton’s “Heart of the Antarctic” a number of years ago, before the recent huge rise in interest in the explorer pushed the prices of his books so high. It’s an account of his failed 1907-1909 British Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole during which he was forced to turn back less than 100 miles from his goal. subscribe · archives · iuncturæprojects
EARLIEST VIEW OF LONDON Below are the earliest extant depictions of London. They are from the front matter of Matthew Paris’ Historia Anglorumand Chronica Majora
written between 1250 and 1259. In both cases they are parts of strip maps showing pilgrimage routes from London to Rome and on toJerusalem.
London from Historia Anglorum, MS 14 C VI, f.2r While the view is obviously very figurative, it nevertheless contains several interesting details that make it more than a simple iconographic representation. The text is Anglo-Norman and reads: _La cite de lundres ki est chef de engleterre. Brutus ki premere enhabita ngleterre la funda e lapela troie la nuvele_, “The city of London is the principle city of England. Brutus who was the first inhabitant of England, founded and named New Troy.” The idea that London was founded by the Trojan Brutusis a legend first
mentioned in the 9th-century but made most famous by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae. The city is shown to be walled with six named gates: Ludgate, Neugate (Newgate), Crupelgate (Cripplegate), Bissopesgate (Bishopsgate), Bilingesgate (Billingsgate ) and Alegate (Aldgate.) It is situated along the banks of the Thames (_le grat riue de tamise_.) Saint Paul’s Cathedral (_la iglise sie pol_) dominates the city. Other details (from left to right) include: _la tur_, the Tower; _la
punt_, the bridge ;
_trnite_, i.e., la trinite, for Holy Trinity at Aldgate; across
the river is shown _lambeth_, Lambeth; _seit mara_, Saint Martin’sla Grande ; and
finally _Westm_, Westminster.
London from Chronica Majora, MS 26, f.i R The view from the Chronica Majora may be the older of the two images shown. It is somewhat more fanciful, showing the city wall as circular and extending beyond the south bank of the Thames, which of course it never did. It also only shows three, single-arched gates. The view from the Historia Anglorum shows six, although four are show in the walls, while two are squeezed in along the margin almost as a correction. They are also depicted correctly as double-arched. The main text contains the additional sentence, _Sis portes i a es murs e la seit_, “Six gates are in the walls along with a seventh.” Suzanne Lewis, in her book, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora , indicates that this reference to a seventh gate may either be a postern gate north of the Tower, or a barbican built outside of theAldgate.
The Chronica view additionally includes a reference to _Birmundsee_,Bermondsay ,
outside the wall, and _Suuerc_, Southwark , on the south bank, but omits the Historia’s explicit reference of Westminster. Posted: Friday, October 18, 2013 | Permanent LinkCollective Guilt
≡
W. G. Sebald , on a
physical manifestation of collective guilt: > “And indeed, to this day one sees in Belgium a distinctive > ugliness, dating from the time when the Congo colony was exploited > without restraint and manifested in a macabre atmosphere of certain > salons and the strikingly stunted growth of the population, such as > one rarely comes across elsewhere. At all events, I well recall that > on my first visit to Brussels in December 1964 I encountered more > hunchbacks and lunatics than normally in a whole year.”>
> …
>
> “At the far end of the room, in the dim light that entered by the > Belgian bulls’-eye panes, sat a hunchbacked pensioner. She was > wearing a woollen cap, a winter coat made of thick burled material, > and fingerless gloves. The waitress brought her a plate with a huge > piece of meat. The old woman stared at it for a while, then produce > from her handbag a small, sharp knife with a wooden handle and began > to cut it up. She would have been born, it occurs to me now, at > about the time that the Congo railway was completed.”The Rings of Saturn
, pp. 123, 127.
ANNULAR ECLIPSE ON MARS BY PHOBOS This is a short video I put together of an annulareclipse of the Sun
by Phobos as capturedby the Curiosity
rover on Mars; August 17, 2013. The total elapsed time of the eclipse was about 30 seconds. This was sped up a bit (I put a shorter delay between images) to make things look a bit smoother. For some reason about 2 seconds of imagery was missing from the NASA site, so I had to fill in a few frames making things look a bit jagged at the end. I’m sure NASA will be able to put something nicer together than what I was able to do with some simple tools (e.g., GIMP .) The raw imagery ishere .
Posted: Monday, September 2, 2013 | Permanent LinkGOTHICA BONONIENSIA
Professors Rosa Bianca Finazziand Paola
Tornaghi of The
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan have published1 a magnificent analysisof a recently
discovered 6th-century palimpsest of two folio pages containing previously unseen passages from the Gothic Bible.
The newly attested Gothic word “atdragan” from Isiah 14:14-15 In the previous image I have highlighted the newly found word “atdragan” from Isaiah 14:14-15. The fragment was originally of interest due to it being a very early witness to St. Augustine’s “City of God”, an initial analysis and interpretation of which was published by Armando Antoelli, who provided the original dating. During a subsequent paleographic analysis by the scholars Maddalena Modesti and Annafelicia Zuffrano, it was discovered that the Latin fragment was actually a palimpsest with a _scriptio inferior_ in the Gothiclanguage.
Finazzi and Tornaghi have given the Gothic text the name, _Gothica Bononiensia_, from where the fragment was found: the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna. A complete transcription of the Gothic text and images from the article can be found here.
From a linguistic perspective, one of the more exciting aspects of the find is the discovery of previously unattested words. Forms of words that had only been reconstructed by linguists were found: * farao (pharaoh) f. 2v, 20 * magaþs (maiden) f. 2v, 7 * þiuþeins (blessing) f. 1v, 20 * unfroþs (foolish) f. 2r, 18 * unsibjis (wicked) f. 2r, 20 (Finazzi and Tornaghi state that these forms will no longer need to carry asterisks in the Gothic dictionaries.) … as well as words that have never been attested before: * Nabukaudaunausaur (Nebuchadnezzar, proper name) f.2v, 22
* fairjan (to depart, distance, move away) f. 2v.10-11
* ananamnjan (to label, nickname, call) f. 1v,26
* atdragan (to pull down) f. 2r, 7 * frarudan (to trample) f. 1r, 18 * gawitan (to defend) f. 1r, 6 * usþinsan (to tear, pull) f. 2v, 24 Enhanced photograph of f. 1v, 20-25; Gothic text in lighter gray The fragment contains a series of biblical passages that jump between the Old and New Testaments. The authors speculate that the different passage perhaps form the framework for a homily that could be referenced by a priest. Since some of passages are also found in the Wulfia bible, further study is needed to understand if the Gothic passages could have been translations based on different Greek or Latin sources than Wulfia’s. 1 Gothica Bononiensia : Analisi linguistica e filologica di un nuovo documento, Aevum , 87 (2013), fasc. 1, pp. 113-155), ISSN 0001-9593 Posted: Monday, July 22, 2013 | Comments (3)| Permanent Link
WEATHER STATION KURT Weather Station “Kurt”,
officially WFL-26 (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an automated weather station installed in Northern Laborador on October 22, 1943, by a team from the German submarine U-537. It was the only German armed military operation on mainland North American during World War II. Northern tip of Labrador. Location of WFL-26 At the outset of World War II, Germany could no longer receive important weather information from the Arctic from international weather services, and so began a program of installing manned and automatic stations across the region. These were important for planning air missions over the Soviet Union and northern Europe. U-537 anchored in Martin Bay, Hutton Peninsula, Northern Labrador In order to disguise the purpose of the station should it ever have been come across, the crew scattered packs of American cigarettes and labeled the equipment for the (non-existent) “Canadian Weather Service.” They apparently needn’t have worried as the station was completely forgotten about. Its existence was not rediscovered until a historian for Siemens Corporation, who had built the equipment, found it in the company archives. An expedition to the site was thenundertaken in 1981.
Location of WFL-26
For a full description of the mission to install this station, see “U-Boats Against Canada: German Submarines in Canadian Waters”, by Michael L.
Hadley, pp. 163-167
.
Posted: Sunday, March 24, 2013 | Comments (1)| Permanent Link
THE PHALLUS TREE OF FR. 25526 The Bibliothèque nationale de France houses a particularly strange manuscript of Guillaume de Lorris ’ and Juen de Meun ’s Roman de la Rose: BNF fr. 25526
. It is famous for its extensive bas-de-page images, several of which are of an explicitly erotic nature. One image in particular often serves as an exemplar of strange medieval marginalia - that found on page 106v, of a nun
gathering the fruit of a phallus tree: Nun at Phallus Tree. BNF fr. 25526, 106r This single image is part of a series on pages 106r and 106v showing a nun and a friar engaged in erotic play. These same figures appearagain on pages 111r
and 111v
.
Interestingly in her book, “Roman de la Rose and its MedievalReaders ”, Dr.
Sylvia Huot of Pembroke College, Cambridge points out that all of these images are part of a single bifolium; that is, a single double page that is folded in half and sewn into a quire. From the perspective of the illustrator working on the bifolium, all eight individual images form one extended series:111v : 106r
106v : 111r
Because the bifolium if folded in half, the images on the top right (i.e., 111v, Copulation; Mule with phalluses) becomes the final scenein the series:
* 106r :
Nun leads monk, Monk scales tower* 106v :
Nun at phallus tree; Nun and monk embrace* 111r :
Monk kneels; Couple undresses* 111v :
Copulation; Mule with phalluses This manuscript was produced by the professional husband and wife team of Richard and Jean de Montbaston working out of their shop on the Rue Neuve Notre Dame in Paris. Highlight of 14th century Paris. Rue Nueve Notre Dame, center left In their book, “Manuscripts and their makers: commercial book producers in medieval Paris, 1200-1500 ”, Richard and Mary Rouse, show that the wife, Jean de Montbaston, was responsible for virtually all the illustrations in fr. 25526 and that interestingly, she was most likely illiterate(!). Book makers such as the Montbastons worked as speedily as possible and devoted little if any time for literary interpretations. Often in fact, their cursory view could result in illustrations that completely misrepresent the text. Advertisement for Richard de Montbaston. BNF fr. 241 As specific and unambiguous as the tale appears to be, unfortunately, there is no known story which explicitly describes a friar and a nun as depicted in the bas-de-page images. The Rouse’s remark that the best that could be said is that they reflect some “bawdy tale” that Jean had perhaps heard during the course of her work. That actual layout of the story is even in question. Many of the illustrations in the book are temporally out of order. For example, in the interleaving stories of the Passions of Christ and St. Margaret, Montbaston seems to be aware that the left side of the bifolium will come after the right side when folded and so puts the left side image: * Descent from the Cross : Crucifixion * Burial : Resurrection Here the illustrator understands that the Descent from the Cross occurs after the Crucifixion, and so puts that image to the _right_, thus when folded, Descent (53v) comes after Crucifixion (52r) . But then, oddly, she puts the Burial and Resurrection on the other side of that bifolium. This results in a confusing series of illustrations:* 52r :
Crucifixion
* 52v :
Burial
* 53r :
Resurrection
* 53v :
Descent from the Cross Passion of Christ bas-de-page images from 52r, 52v, 53r and 53v All of the aspects of the Passion stories follow this same disjointedpattern.
Does the erotic nun and friar tale follow this same pattern? If so, the story would flow in a way that makes even less sense:* 106r :
Nun leads monk, Monk scales tower* 111v :
Copulation; Mule with phalluses* 106v :
Nun at phallus tree; Nun and monk embrace* 111r :
Monk kneels; Couple undresses Given what is known about Jean de Montbaston’s literacy and the speed with which she worked, the best I think can be said is that she managed to get the ordering “correct” this time. Still, what ultimately is the source of these strange images? Unfortunately, the answer is probably unknowable. Images have phallus trees have appeared in other contexts, e.g., The Massa Marittima Mural, but any
attempt to find meaning of them seems to result in series of circular references to the few examples that are known. Posted: Sunday, March 17, 2013 | Comments (1)| Permanent Link
MASSACHUSETTS, 1810
A map showing the population distribution of Massachusetts based on the 1810 Federal census. It shows how remarkably and evenly distributed people were across the entire breadth of the state prior to industrialization. Massachusetts Population Distribution, 1810 > The US Census of 1810 counted 421,040 inhabitants, with 79% of them > dispersed in rural areas or in villages of under 2,500 people. > Counties with the largest populations were Essex (71,888), Worcester > (64,910), and Middlesex (52,789). The four western counties had a > quarter of the population of the state (112,182), the greatest > proportion that region ever achieved. The largest citIes were > Boston—33,250 (4th in US), Salem—12,613 (7th in US), > Newburyport—7,634 (12th in US), and Nantucket—6,807 (14th in > US). In 1810, one in 15 Americans lived in Massachusetts. Wilkie, Richard W. and Tager, Jack. “Historical Atlas ofMassachusetts
”.
University of Massachusetts Press, 1991. Posted: Saturday, February 2, 2013 | Comments (3)| Permanent Link
MORE ON “TWITTER” Notker Labeo (c950 - 1022) used the Old High Germancognate of
“twitter” for the Latin “susurrare” in exactly the same place as Chaucer in this own translationof Boethius in
the early 11th century. This is from page 118 of the manuscript. The Latin appears first followed by the translated OHG. Where Chaucer translated “susurrat” as “twitreþ”, Notker used its cognate“zwizeron”.
Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 825: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae The original and translated sentences are then, > Boethius: “Sylvas dulci voce SUSURRAT.” > Notker: “in uuálde uuíle er ZUÍZERÔN.” > Chaucer: “TWITRIÞ desiryinge þe wood wiþ her swete voys.” “zwizeron”, pronounced “tswitseron” shares the same West Germanic antecedent as “twitter”. In fact, before the 2nd phase of the Germanic Consonant Shift(t→ts),
it would have been pronounced “twiteron”. Old English did not participate in the Shift and so kept the hard “t”. Chaucer undoubtedly did not coin the word “twitter” as it must have existed in Old English; it is pure happenstance that it was not attested in any other surviving document. The English “twitter” is in fact closer to the original West Germanic version of the word. Posted: Monday, November 5, 2012 | Permanent LinkDetails
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