“The extra issues exchange, the extra they keep the similar.”
–Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90)
When Emir O. Filipovic, a medievalist on the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited the State Archives of Dubrovnik, he stumbled upon somefactor that may laboriously surprise anyone that lives with cats nowadays: a Fifteenth-century guyuscript with inky paw prints casually tracked throughout it.
And right here’s another purrpetrator. The Historisches Archiv in Cologne, Germany houses a personuscript with an interesting history. According to the weblog MedievalFragments, “a Deventer scribe, writing round 1420, discovered his guyuscript ruined by way of a urine stain left there by way of a cat the evening prior to. He was once pressured to go away the remainder of the web page empty, drew a picture of a cat, and cursed the creature with the following phrases:”
Hic non defectus est, sed cattus minxit desuin keeping with nocte quadam. Conamusingdatur pessimus cattus qui minxit tremendous librum istum in nocte Daventrie, et consimiliter omnes alii propter illum. Et cavendum valde ne in keeping withmittantur libri aperti in keeping with noctem ubi cattie venire possunt.
Here’s nothing leave outing, however a cat urinated in this during a certain evening. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this e-book during the evening in Deventer and as a result of it many others [other cats] too. And beware smartly to not depart open books at evening the place cats can come.
What I’d sincerely love to understand is whether or not, nearly 600 years later, the urine scent has left the web page. Cat personalers, you’ll know what I imply.
by the use of MedievalFragments
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