“The extra issues change, the extra they keep the identical.”
–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 exhaustingly surprise anyone who lives with cats at the moment: a Fifteenth-century manuscript 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 manuscript ruined by a urine stain left there by a cat the night time earlier than. He was compelled to depart 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 desuper nocte quadam. Conenjoyabledatur pessimus cattus qui minxit tremendous librum istum in nocte Daventrie, et consimiliter omnes alii propter illum. Et cavendum valde ne permittantur libri aperti per noctem ubi cattie venire possunt.
Right here is nothing missing, however a cat urinated on this during a certain night time. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this ebook during the night time in Deventer and due to it many others [other cats] too. And beware nicely to not depart open books at night time the place cats can come.
What I might sincerely like to know is whether or not, virtually 600 years later, the urine scent has left the web page. Cat personalers, you’ll know what I imply.
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