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

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!