Pennsic pictures

[cellio]

I have (finally) posted my Pennsic pictures. (And then Picasa died and took that album with it. :-( )

A few selections below the cut:

galeran and his group performed in my camp one night:

Teribus is new to Pennsic, I think. I've been playing their CD all week in the car.

Joint choir/consort performance (photos by tangerinpenguin):

I tried my hand at night-time photography sans flash. This was during midnight madness in the market. I still have a lot to learn, but I thought this one cleaned up ok:

I just like these clouds:

Finally, a mystery. John Michael Thorpe, a merchant, had with him a sixteenth-century printed book (a travalogue) that ended with the following page. He thinks the capitalized letters mean something, but as of when I talked with him, no one he'd talked with (including me) had been able to parse anything meaningful out of it. (All of the affected letters are valid components for Roman numerals, but we couldn't take it farther than that.)

Comments

[alfiechat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing the pictures, they are all really good. I like the clouds too.

[sethg]

lucretia_borgia says that some old books have extra capitalization on some pages because the typesetters ran out of smaller type. A boring explanation, but...

[cellio]

Heh. Yeah, the things we forget about in this age where "type" is infinitely available. :-) (But see the comment from shewhomust below, too.)

[rectangularcat]

The vikings you like guys are from Denmark I believe - people from here loooove them!

[zare-k.livejournal.com]

Nice picture of the choir. Miss singing with you all.

[cellio]

There are a few more choir pictures over on the Picasa site. I'm glad Christof was able to take them.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Following up on the Roman numerals thing: if you simply add them all up you get 1596 (I think). Might that be the publication date?

[cellio]

Aha. We were trying at one point to parse it consecutively (one big number didn't work, so then we tried splitting it up), but we didn't try just adding it up! Good call.

Duxain nombrel

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I've not come across "duxain" before, but on the basis that a "dixain" is a verse form of ten lines, I suppose a "d[e]uxain" could have two lines. Which would make the title "Numeric Couplet" and confirm that those capitals are to be parsed as numerals.

OK, let's see: I make the total 1597. And you say it's a sixteenth century travelogue? Then the text of the rhyme is consistent with that. It says:

My Dutchmen had such brave hearts within them
That they made a voyage to the East Indies

A quick google confirms (http://www.colonialvoyage.com/vocd.html) that the first Dutch voyage to the East Indies was around 1597.

Re: Duxain nombrel

[cellio]

Thank you! I didn't recognize the verse form. The book appears to have been printed in 1598 (commemorating that 1597 voyage?), according to the first page:

Re: Duxain nombrel

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is rather wonderful!

[hlinspjalda.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing these! It's the best one I've seen of Sparky in her Heian garb so far, even with the shades. ;>

The wwloom one is nice too; I didn't manage to get up to that display this year.

What is the "tapestry" all about? Is that a painted windwall, or is it embroidered, or what?

[cellio]

I have two other pictures of Sparky; this seemed the best of them to me. I can email all three to you if you'd like.

I wasn't sure whether to identify you folks in the caption, especially since you're using an obscure name here (so I didn't want to be the one to connect names and faces, just in case you had a particular reason for that). How would you like me to label that one? (And you'll have to remind me of her Japanese name, if applicable; I can only remember that it resembled food to this gaijin. :-) )

The "tapestry" is actually painted (I should have called it a banner; dunno why I didn't). It's household heraldry, made by dragonazure, and I promised him a picture. It's not done yet, he says, but I liked it anyway.

Re: Thanks!!!

[cellio]

Someday you'll make it there! And then maybe I'll actually meet you. :-)