The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
It’s fun to do the detective work, but GOSH I wish people would just link to where they found images like these!
The text is from the Psalms, and those tall, narrow Gothic letters looked English and late medieval, so I Googled “psalter” and “Innocents” and “14th century,” and discovered that the image is from the 14th-century Queen Mary Psalter, British Library, Royal Ms BVII, fol 132r.
Holy Innocents
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