Today's unexpected archival discovery in the @nlireland.bsky.social. is this spooky pentacle on a late fourteenth century document.
It is the signum or personal sign of a notary called Richard Wheeler.
#Archives #Manuscripts #Medieval #Ireland #Halloween
![An illustration of Noah's ark in a fourteenth century Irish manuscript accredited to Ádhamh Ó Cianáin, a scholar from medieval Fermanagh, at the @nlireland.bsky.social. In the top left can be seen the dove (or 'colu[m]ba') carrying an olive leaf returning to the ark.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:56ztmpmviaaig6uxz7zcylrf/bafkreiavflsolod7wafkfpzs7yoyya4ajosojt2dr6iutdn226p6qxvmta)
![When the deeds have eyes...really fantastic portraiture, possibly of Edward III, in a English royal charter sent to Ireland in 1375 at @nlireland.bsky.social The face is drawn into the loop of the h for hib[er]nie or Ireland, and has a rather Big Brother (or Edward) is watching you feeling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:56ztmpmviaaig6uxz7zcylrf/bafkreiapzfotp6x74kols7s4wmftv62uscc43aus2cu6dgz4oqvdnq5nhe)
