Whacko military techniques star in a codex, Urb.lat.1397, just re-digitized in color at the Vatican Library, including a few hints about how to conquer a castle: drain its cisterns, blow it up from below with a barrel of gunpowder or sneak a platoon in by tunnel:
There is also a wonderful galley-ship you can dismantle and take anywhere by truck:
@DigitaVaticana says the artist is Siennese but otherwise anonymous. These illustrated handbooks of (easier said than done) military methods were a genre that began in late antiquity. Often the ideas were hand-me-downs from the past: rarely effective, but always delightful to dreamy inventors.
In the past week, 36 manuscripts were digitized in Rome. My unofficial full list:
There is also a wonderful galley-ship you can dismantle and take anywhere by truck:
@DigitaVaticana says the artist is Siennese but otherwise anonymous. These illustrated handbooks of (easier said than done) military methods were a genre that began in late antiquity. Often the ideas were hand-me-downs from the past: rarely effective, but always delightful to dreamy inventors.
In the past week, 36 manuscripts were digitized in Rome. My unofficial full list:
- Barb.lat.2157,
- Ott.lat.1261,
- Ross.103, Ross.103 - Florentine Book of Hours, 2nd half of 15th C— AaronM (@gundormr) February 24, 2019
- Ross.165,
- Ross.180, Ross.180 (Missale Romanum, 14th cent.) among the #LatestDigitizedManuscripts - https://t.co/XHZrHEf9cT pic.twitter.com/8ZjFHnvQ50— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) February 19, 2019
- Ross.260,
- Urb.lat.551,
- Urb.lat.552,
- Urb.lat.580,
- Urb.lat.853.pt.2,
- Urb.lat.970,
- Urb.lat.974,
- Urb.lat.1038.pt.A,
- Urb.lat.1126,
- Urb.lat.1213,
- Urb.lat.1227,
- Urb.lat.1349,
- Urb.lat.1397 (Upgraded to HQ), Eighty-four folios with spectacular #drawings of #machines and #military devices by an Anonymous Sienese Artist among the #LatestDigitizedManuscripts 🏰⛲🛠🔩⚙⛓🧱⚔🛡🔗 https://t.co/SMSuEmFOud pic.twitter.com/Dj15vLZdpf— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) February 21, 2019
- Urb.lat.1424,
- Urb.lat.1438,
- Urb.lat.1448,
- Urb.lat.1463.pt.A,
- Vat.ebr.202,
- Vat.lat.2484 (Upgraded to HQ), eTK: Anticipans natus vel partus decem diebus a nono mense
- Vat.lat.2486 (Upgraded to HQ), eTK: Dubitatur utrum diffinitio medicine sit bona et arguitur Haly et; Turisanus et alii quod non (15c)
- Vat.lat.3217 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.3976 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.4459 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.4486 (Upgraded to HQ), Food, hygiene, activity and rest for the personal physical and mental well-being in the Tacuinum Sanitatis: medieval handbook on wellness, based on the 11th cent. Arab medical treatise by Elluchasem Elimithar🍉🧼☀🧘🏻♀️💕https://t.co/YA0qLr4AQP (14th c.) #LatestDigitizedManuscripts pic.twitter.com/10cleM3h1D— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) February 22, 2019
- Vat.lat.4596,
- Vat.lat.4608,
- Vat.lat.4609,
- Vat.lat.4611,
- Vat.lat.4614,
- Vat.lat.4627,
- Vat.lat.4637,
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