A research contest started by me!

[aelfgifu]

I remember someone at Kingdom A&S (ornerie?) mentioning that there was a picture of a ball (possibly juggling ball) in the Museum of London books. The first person to email me a picture and a citataion with all relevant info gets one of my uber cool if modern glass pumpkins at twelfth night. My email is vandy@vandybennett.com. If you get me a pic second or third etc, but before I post that I recieved the info, you get some of my yummy candied ginger dipped in chocolate at twelfth night, or some other yummy if you don't like chocolate or ginger.

Additionally, anyone who gets me any other picture of extant medieval/renaissance/ancient juggling balls or balls/ball of a juggleable size with appropriate citations gets a cool prize.

And saving the best for last, anyone who gets me an image from a medieval or renaissance illuminated manuscript that shows someone juggling and has appropriate citataions gets a blown glass of their choice of style (assuming it is within my ability) once my glass shop is up and running.

This is sort of like paying research assistants but cheaper and more fun. ;-)

Comments

[ursula]

While we're playing the "pictures you must have seen already" game, this page is good for extant Greek & Roman balls:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/romeball.html

including a glass one:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/trigon.html

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

Heh. You deserve a "cool prize" just for sending me any references to juggling that you come across anyway. ;-)

[ursula]

I'm pretty sure that I've got the position as your research assistant locked down ;) (In particular, I can e-mail you JSTOR PDFs, if you find them-- they seem to be in Google these days.)

I still kind of want to find out more about juggling in late-period Persian cafes . . . that looked cool . . .