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. ;-)

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[ornerie.livejournal.com]

http://aelflaed.homemail.com.au/doco/balls.html

I KNOW there is a picture of a leather ball in the Museum of London book "the Medieval Household", and there well might be one in the York one on leather objects...

:)

[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

COOL!

[ya-inga.livejournal.com]

I Am interested in the manuscript challenge. What are you meaning my appropriate citiations. MSS and location?

Just want to make sure I'm in the ball ; )(groan)

[gargoyal3.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. NO good images yet, but tons of articles!
Okay. Found a scholarly article about jesters, http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/society/pop_culture/jesters.shtml

I'm sure you've seen this, but it does have 2 illustrations from medieval manuscripts
http://www.juggling.org/papers/history-1/index.html

Again, I'm sure you've seen this:
http://www.juggling.org/~conway/juggler/Icon/siteswsm.jpeg

On the Symbolism of Juggling: The Moral and Aesthetic Implications of the Mastery of Falling Objects, by Chandler, A.
Source: Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 25, Number 3, Winter 1991, pp. 105-124(20)

Uh, I can print this one for you if you don't have access to JSTOR
Juggling Tricks and Conjury on the English Stage before 1642
Louis B. Wright
Modern Philology, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Feb., 1927), pp. 269-284

this is a book
Drama, Play, and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
By Lawrence M. Clopper

This one is partially available on google, and has a bunch of illustrations
Magic on the Early English Stage
By Philip Butterworth

uuuhhhh, not sure I get this :)
Troubadour Song and the Art of Juggling
William E. Burgwinkle
Pacific Coast Philology, Vol. 26, No. 1/2 (Jul., 1991), pp. 13-25
doi:10.2307/1316551



‘‘Pleyng with a erd’’: Folly and Madness in the Prologue and Tale of Beryn
S Harper - Mediaeval Studies, 1985 - muse.jhu.edu

Music in Mediaeval Scotland
Henry George Farmer
Proceedings of the Musical Association, 56th Sess., 1929 - 1930 (1929 - 1930), pp. 69-90

this one is through blackwell, and I can't access it
On the Symbolism Juggling: The Moral and Aesthetic Implications ...

juggling in post biblical jewish sources
http://www.juggler.co.il/jews/Raphael.htm

Do I win???

[(Anonymous)]

I just emailed you several manuscript images plus full citations!
Do I get a prize???

(BIG GRIN)

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

sorry, my scanner is on the fritz, but here's the citations. there are photos as well as archeological drawings for both. let me knwo and I can bring the books to 12th night...

1. Leather and Leatherworking in Anglo-scandavian and Medieval York by QUita MOld, Ian Carlisle and Esther Cameron, The Archaeology of York: The Small Finds 17/16 CRAFT< INDUSTRY, AND EVERYDAY LIFE

pp3405-3408
8includes three extant frgments, as well as sketches of four different consturctions

2. The Medieval Household: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London by Geoff Egan

pp295-296
covers two differently constructed extant examples

still looking for that 14th century juggler that I see in my head! :)