{"id":360,"date":"2012-08-23T08:33:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T08:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.stefanschleifer.com\/codex\/?p=360"},"modified":"2013-03-22T11:52:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T11:52:30","slug":"confrontation-with-oneself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Confrontation with oneself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Geraardsbergen Manuscript\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=368\">Geraardsbergen Manuscript<\/a>, Text 35 <\/strong>(fol. 114r)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1721\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/114r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1721\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1721\" alt=\"Brussel - KBR - 837-45, fol. 114r: A text to write next to a mirror (by courtesy of KBR Brussels)\" src=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/114r-300x34.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/114r-300x34.jpg 300w, https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/114r-500x57.jpg 500w, https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/114r.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brussel &#8211; KBR &#8211; 837-45, fol. 114r: A text to write next to a mirror (by courtesy of KBR Brussels)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Medieval man was not that different from us as we sometimes would like to believe. They had mirrors, mirrors with captions and self knowledge, just like we do. This very short text reads: \u2018To write next to a mirror: know yourself!\u2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1719\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mirror.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1719\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1719\" alt=\"Modern miror with wise advise!\" src=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mirror-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mirror-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mirror-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mirror-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mirror.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A modern miror with wise advise!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A famous image of a medieval mirror can be seen in <a title=\"The Arnolfini Marriage by Van Eyck\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/paintings\/jan-van-eyck-the-arnolfini-portrait\">this <\/a>painting by Van Eyck.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the complete <a title=\"Geraardsbergen Manuscript: Table of Contents\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=567\">table of contents<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Captions\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=753\">captions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Go back to: Geraardsbergen Manuscript,<a title=\"Geraardsbergen Manuscript: Story 3\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=686\"> Story 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geraardsbergen Manuscript, Text 35 (fol. 114r) Medieval man was not that different from us as we sometimes would like to believe. They had mirrors, mirrors with captions and self knowledge, just like we do. This very short text reads: \u2018To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}