
More photos of the cat-marked manuscript can be seen on Filipović's Flickr stream. Sometimes, as for these paw prints, the secondary elements gain more fame than the finely crafted text. While looking through other old books and texts, Filipović has spotted doodles, fungi, wormholes and various incidental, yet eye-catching, elements on ancient pages. It was just a mundane, typical house-cat moment, but one that might have been preserved for hundreds of years. This combined with his weight could possibly lead to arthritis a bit earlier, so you do need to have his gait checked out by a vet.
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He added, "While the writer was writing the document a cat probably passed by him and since the paint was near the book.the cat spilled it, dipped his paws in it and passed over the document and thus left its trace in history."īased on the prints, it looks like the cat marched on the manuscript, coming from the left, and then made a left turn on the right page before stepping off. Due to losing the part of their toes that they primarily walk on, declawing drastically changes how a cat walks. Learning how to walk a cat may seem impossible, but with proper supervision, patience, and consistency, you too can train your cat to walk on a leash. NEWS: Cats Take on Owners' Habits (Good and Bad) "The prints were most likely made while the document was being made, or some time then.but the possibility that they were made later cannot be excluded." "The document on which prints were made dates from March 11, 1445," Filipović told BalkanInsight. The manuscript's text had nothing to do with cats, but instead was a rather dry Republic of Dubrovnik letter to traders and nobles. Filipovi While pawing through a stack of medieval manuscripts from Dubrovnik, Croatia, University of Sarajevo doctoral student Emir O. KRYSTALUECKENHOFF WALKED into the contracts office of Rainier Paper at ten minutes before eight. Years ago, a mischievous kitty had left her ink-covered prints.

Filipovi stumbled upon a familiar set of splotches marring the centuries-old pages. He shared the above image on Twitter, and news about the find spread. 1 WELL, CAT, I HOPE to hell this is sexy enough. While pawing through a stack of medieval manuscripts from Dubrovnik, Croatia, University of Sarajevo doctoral student Emir O. "It's not very often that a researcher can come across curious things while sifting through monotonous and dull archival registers," Filipović told National Geographic. The survivors are the Vercelli Book, which contains a wealth of Old English poetry the Beowulf Manuscript, the epic story of its titular hero the Junius Manuscript, comprised of four long-form religious poems and the Exeter Book, a. A Medieval cat literally walked through history, leaving its paw prints on a 15th-century Croatian manuscript, according to an historian.Įmir Filipović, a research assistant at the University of Sarajevo, happened to be thumbing through the manuscript when he noticed the inky paw prints. All four are on display at the British Library as part of its Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War exhibition.
