For cat owner , this picture that ’s been make the round is nothing lurid . A little fuzzball was someplace he or she was n’t hypothecate to be and messed things up ? That never happens ! Even for those of us who have paw prints on every horizontal ( and even vertical ) airfoil in our homes , though , the image is notable .
MedievalistEmir O. Filipovicfound these pawprints while look through old manuscripts in the DoS archives in Dubrovnik , a walled city in Croatia that was a commune and important Balkan port during the Middle Ages . Both the Good Book and the prints date back to 1445 .
“ Apart from the interesting written sources , ” Filipovicsaysof the archive , “ one can also encounter the little traces which gothic people left in the ms preserving them for posterity . ”
Among page and pages of monotonous debt records and soil divisions , he witness a handful of gems like doodles in the margin , increasingly waterlogged script in the recorded bit of a encounter that dragged on and on and , of path , the mark of a mischievous computed tomography .
The prints , he says , “ pull the historiographer to take his eyes from the text for a moment , to intermit and to renovate in his mind the incident when a cat , presumptively owned by the Augustin Eugene Scribe , pounce first on the ink container and then on the book , trademark it for the ensuing one C . ”
“ you could almost picture the writer shoo the cat in a panic-struck fashion while essay to take it from his desk . Despite his best exertion the damage was already complete and there was nothing else he could have done but call on a new leaf and continue his job . ”
I can picture it all too well , particularly when my own cats bat at the cursor on my laptop screen and bear on the gallant tradition of their ancestors : making it impossible for mankind to get any piece of work done .
[ viaThe Atlantic ]
