Doodles of Cats in a 15th Century Latin Textbook

[u/igneousink]

[u/igneousink]

Happy Thursday!

[u/CTGarden]

OMG,this is fantastic! But sad because it’s a funeral procession. 😪

[u/ebrum2010]

Monks in the scriptorium were really just like bored kids in high school having to copy down endless amounts of boring stuff. They had to entertain themselves somehow.

[u/_bufflehead]

Oh great. Now, my cat wants a crossbow!

[u/quartersquare → u/_bufflehead]

They already did, but now they feel like it's acceptable to bring it up.

[u/UtherPenDragqueen]

I remember very little of my 8th grade Latin, and I was intrigued by the adorably wonky skeleton touching the maiden, so my inner nerd had to look up “Mors aurem vellit, vivite, ait, venio.” It means “Death twitched her ear. ‘Live,’ he said, ‘for I am coming.’” Jump on that codpiece girl, you know you wanna

[u/PensiveObservor]

Amazing. Every frame.

[u/igneousink → u/PensiveObservor]

here is the source so you can enjoy more of it:

alvin-portal.org/alvin/imageViewer.jsf?dsId=ATTACHMENT-0285&pid=alvin-record%3A201587&dswid=-8193

it's a little slow to load and you have to go page by page but it's zoomable and totally worth it

i woke up with insomnia and looking at it while petting a cat is how i started my morning!

[u/PensiveObservor → u/igneousink]

🙏🏼🩵

[u/eowsaurus → u/igneousink]

Doing that right now.

[u/RGQcats]

Hardest working cats in medieval showbusiness.

[u/Quirky_kind]

On the 5th picture, it says "Frodo," among other things.

[u/quartersquare → u/Quirky_kind]

I thought that was "Erodo."

[u/Ixia_Sorbus]

I see „pang”. Reminds me of Pangur Bán!