@pluralistic An exceptional snail from an exceptional early written sample of (the vernacular) Dutch.
Most of all, this beautiful manuscript –a national treasure– can be (slowly 🐌) browsed through online at the National ('Royal') Library of the Netherlands: kb.nl/en/discover-admire/maste…
Around 1270 Jacob van Maerlant wrote Der naturen bloeme: a medieval encyclopaedia about all the beauty that nature has to offer. The work is written in Dutch.
Gabriel Heinrichs
in reply to Medieval Illumination • • •@pluralistic An exceptional snail from an exceptional early written sample of (the vernacular) Dutch.
Most of all, this beautiful manuscript –a national treasure– can be (slowly 🐌) browsed through online at the National ('Royal') Library of the Netherlands: kb.nl/en/discover-admire/maste…
Der naturen bloeme by Jacob van Maerlant
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