The Power Of Asking!

A little while ago, I asked here whether anybody knew where the bowloom tablet weaving scene was from.

And, of course... that worked. (I love it when that works.) Not only this, I also got a bonus heads-up of my blog comment function acting up and not accepting the comment there, so I got this info, plus the source of the image, delivered into my inbox.

A big thank you to Carolyn Priest-Dorman at this place -  who was smarter than me and looked a little further on an old copy of Viktoria's blog, who had posted the mystery image in 2009 (it originated in a yahoo group, she writes, by the way). I had found out that the post contained that image - however, I had obviously not found the right copy of the post on the wayback machine, because at some point other than where I looked at... somebody solved the mystery. 

Or, to cite the comment in question:

Tuija Ainonen said...

We found the mystery image! I happened to tweet the image (https://bit.ly/3h8Z9fO) & prof Henrike Lähnemann knew of your search. (As this is an older post, perhaps you already found the reference?).

The image is from Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 185, fol. 35v (Lower Rhineland, 14thC). The manuscript has just recently been fully digitized by #PolonskyGerman project (see https://hab.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/en/ ).

You can find the image at https://bit.ly/3vNk4c7 and the catalogue description of the manuscript at https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_4553. The lower panel of the full page image depicts the education of the Virgin at the Temple, with her classmates being busy with various activities.

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So thanks to Carolyn and her Search Fu, Vix's blog post, Prof. Henrike Lähnemann's knowledge, and Tuija Ainonen's comment, and actually also Beatrix Nutz who sent me the image and the "whereisit"-question... here we go. 

 I am, as I probably don't need to say, utterly delighted.