#manuscript cutting

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Manuscript Illumination with All Saints in an Initial 'V' (manuscript cutting from an Antiphonary) Artist: Cosmè (Cosimo) Tura (Italian, 1430-1495) Date: 1450s Genre: religious art Period: Italian Renaissance (Quattrocento) Movement: School of Ferrara Medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art

[comfymoth]

well now i'm curious about your non-rings-of-power tolkien opinions, whichever subset of them you would find most fun to talk about

OMG okay well i’m just going to use this as an excuse to talk about the paper i wrote last year then!! there was actually this big exhibition of tolkien’s manuscripts in my city in the fall, so i had to write an essay on, like, two big themes in his work and it was the most fun i’ve ever had in a history class. Love when i get to write essays about shit i’m obsessed with anyways.

so like. the lord of the rings is all about going home, right? that’s all the characters want, sam and frodo especially talk about it A Lot, and i think it’s pretty obvious where that comes from, from tolkien’s experience as a soldier. but i also think, in a way, it’s kind of about returning to your childhood. or to your home when it was ideal. it’s just all about innocence, you know? tolkien grew up in the countryside, but it didn’t stay the countryside for long, birmingham kept expanding and eventually all that farmland was replaced by factories. and he witnessed the role that industrialization played in wwi, the first war to take advantage of mass-production, and he saw first hand how fucking brutal that was.

so the orcs, his stand-ins for literal demons, created by morgoth the embodiment of all evil, what’s one of the first things he notes about them in the silmarillion? that they’re inventors. they build machines to hurt people. they have literal factories, and by the time of lotr, the uruk hai themselves are practically being churned out of factories, it’s All about industrialization and mass production. mordor is named after birmingham. and the orcs destroy the countryside, they attack the ents, that’s part of what makes them such fundamental baddies to tolkien. because nature and innocence go hand in hand for him, and they just stomp it all out.

meanwhile the hobbits are essentially a distillation of the country life tolkien grew up around. they live quiet, pastoral lives, and they live in pretty much blissful ignorance of the larger world around them. everything is sort of simple and happy and nostalgic. like the way you would remember your childhood. like the way tolkien remembered his before the first world war. so every time frodo and sam talk about the shire and going back, and wether or not there will even be a shire to go back to, it’s not just about being able to physically go home. it’s about being able to go back to a different time, when they were safe and un-traumatized. and in the end, frodo kind of can’t. he physically can’t live there because he can’t mentally go back.

i got to see the original hand-written page of the scene when the hobbits return home, and there are tear stains on it. the ink is smudged in multiple spots. because it just means so, so much to be able to go home

[space-writes]

find the word

tagged by @charlesjosephwrites, thank you! my words are heart, warm, about, and again. these words and my ever-present Obedience brainrot sent me into the draft for A Question of Trust again, so enjoy some Boys excerpts~

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heart

Wasn’t love supposed to be easy? Or at least not make you feel like someone had shattered your heart and jammed the pieces back inside you all wrong.

warm

Why was it there always seemed to be some deadline or other pressing down on them? He took up his book again, and let his hand settle on the back of Ashenivir’s neck, stroking over the warm, soft skin. The end of the month would come as it came—for tonight, at least, time was a thing to be ignored.

about

“You imply things about my Master I don’t like,” Ashenivir said. “And you dance around what you intend to tell me until I do as you please. For someone who likes to give up her power, you certainly enjoy wielding it over others.”

again

tfw you meet the ex who broke your heart for the first time in almost 70 years

He couldn’t bring himself to say her name. “High Priestess.” “Wizard.” She thunked her drink down. “Doing well, are you?” “Quite well. Yourself?” “Spectacular. Finally gracing the surface with your presence again, I see.” “Yes.” “How’s Mythen Thaelas?” “Intact.” “T’sonri still the Archmage?” “For now.”

[ID - a purple decorative divider]

no-pressure tagging @artdecosupernova-writing @viscerawrites @jmhwritesstuff and @foxboyclit with the words escape, delay, trial, and denial

Obedience taglist: @foxboyclit @belovedviolence @thegreatobsesso (ask to be +/-)

[m3dieval]

A Collection of 15th Century Bowl Cuts

Français 9342 folios: 5r, 16v, 13r, 40v

Ms-5072 réserve, folios: 163r, 71v, 130v

Ms-664 réserve, folio 63v

Portrait of a man, Barthélemy van Eyck, 1456

Français 23279, folios: 5r, 64v, 117v

Portrait of Philippe de Croÿ, Rogier van der Weyden, 1460

[chasingfictions]

i know we all already did trying to cut down ttpd to a listenable playlist but . alternate universe where ttpd was called prophecy

[lilacerull0]

eve didn't get bitten... taylor chose this career... try and come for my job...

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Also “Better Man” really does fill in the lines of “All Too Well” (particularly the 10 min version) and even more so the short film idk they’re really like companions

[finnickodaiir]

Does anyone want to see my reshuffling of TTPD?

[denialslavenderhaze]

if the story's over why am i still writing pages to rereading the manuscript but it's not her story anymore

[u-mspcoll]

A découpage piece by Şehrî in Isl. Ms. 438

Calligraphic découpage / cut-work piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher, Şehrî (Fol.22a in Isl. Ms. 438, Islamic Manuscripts Collection)

Enjoy this post from Sumeyra Dursun, 2023 Heid Fellow, drawn from her research in the Islamic Manuscripts Collection. Sumeyra is a doctoral candidate in the history of Islamic arts at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul.

[asgardian--angels]

despite what it may appear based on my incessant jayvik posting i'm supposed to have been doing work all day, and the day before that, and the day before that, and

[m3dieval]

Français 9342, folio 16v (detail). 15th century, French.

The armour is interesting, the horse barding and tied tail is interesting. But I'm really hoarding this image for the bowl-cut.

[spleenomane]

We, however, ask whichever nobleman who intends to approach this book based on his own nobility only, to make any expert of the sciences read it and examine it, and may he be merciful for the things less well said.

May it be just an ancient topos of humility, I want to think there is some truth to this, that even Frederick II, Emperor, king of Sicily, king of Jerusalem, duke of Swabia and so on, was afraid and conscious of his limits and his errors. That even while trying to offer his knowledge, it may have been faulty. That no matter his thirst of wisdom, he couldn't have the time to learn everything he wished to, and some things just can't be done alone. This warms my heart and continues to give me hope whenever the path feels unsteady.

[astramachina]

Me two months ago: "I'm gonna write some fic to take my mind off doing line edits on my manuscript. just for about a week or so and then I'll get back to it. most certainly. just a week. maybe two. three? four???"

Me two weeks ago: "This is a dead end. Nothing will come of it. I'm gonna have to start something else. A youtube channel, maybe. Idk what I'm gonna do I have no marketable skills other than writing this is a disaster. I guess I'll keep working on this fic and doing deep dives into tech stuff to make it as accurate as possible."

Me yesterday: "Cool so I have a nice folder filled with materials on how to code now. Teach myself some basic programming before buying a kit and who knows, I'll probs end up following granddad's footsteps and become a programmer, learn some robotics on the side since I've got nothing but time---"

Agent this morning: "Hi."

Me: "OH THANK GOD...... wait NO FUCK MY MANUSCRIPT"

[upennmanuscripts]

Today's #YearOfHours is Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 257, a book of Hours written in Eastern Netherlands, ca. 1505. This manuscript, which belonged to a Franciscan sister, is an early sixteenth-century Dutch book of hours for the Use of Utrecht in the translation of Geert Groote. The leaves comprising the calendar and several of the leaves with large decorated initials marking the major text divisions are parchment and the rest of the manuscript is paper. The full-page miniature of the Trinity at the beginning is enclosed by a border printed from a metal cut and colored by hand. #BiblioPhilly

Online: https://bit.ly/3XBhnYZ