“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 can 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 evening earlier than. He was 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 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 evening. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this ebook during the evening in Deventer and due to it many others [other cats] too. And beware effectively to not go away open books at evening the place cats can come.
What I’d sincerely like to know is whether or not, nearly 600 years later, the urine scent has left the web page. Cat personalers, you’ll know what I imply.
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