#marginalia

[upennmanuscripts]

They call him... Ramsey Piper? Whatever you call him, a ram plays the bagpipes in the bottom margin of f. 280v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible #drollerydonnerstag

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[eshpur]

✣ Medieval Miku ✣

[jbbartram-illu]

queck (in progress)

Inspired by this delightful illustration from the the Gorleston Psalter (1310-1324)

[cuties-in-codices]

guy sitting by a fire

in a manuscript of jean de wavrin's "anciennes chroniques d'angleterre", flanders, c. 1470-90

source: Paris, BnF, Français 75, fol. 198r

[fox-teeth]

Everyone liked the color charts I test printed for Basilisk so much, I felt compelled made a nice version! Great for anyone that has an interest in Risograph printing, historical pigments, or weird medieval marginalia.

(buy it here)

[a-book-of-creatures]

Hey tumblr we need to have a talk about something I noticed.

Specifically going by tags attached to images I’ve blogged or reblogged, there seems to be a misconception that marginalia means “any quirky medieval art”.

It’s not.

Marginalia is anything in the margins of a text.

The ones that will get posted on tumblr will more often than not be quirky drawings, but they also include notes, annotations, scribbles, and whatever else. The quirky drawings just happen to get a lot of press on here because, well. They’re quirky drawings.

For instance, see this image here of a platanista (river dolphin) chomping down on an elephant’s trunk?

This is not marginalia! This is a full-fledged illustration. It’s within the text (Liber natura rerum, Thomas de Cantimpré, Librairie de Valenciennes Ms 0320). It illustrates the entry on Platanista.

This is what it looks like in context.

But you know what are marginalia? Let me circle them for convenience.

Know the difference. It won’t save your life but it will make you more popular at a medievalist conference.

[bolognamayhem117]

"Expectations versus Reality" God's favorite princess pictured this happening differently.

[saltedsnailstudio]

carved a few more peculiar creatures

[ebrithilbowser-blog]

So I thought about how centaurs effectively have two bodies and nobody knows weather they have their organs in the horse body or the human body or if they have two sets of organs.

Blemmyae on the other side seem to have barely enough space for all of their organs with their mouth cavity, eyeballs, brain etc. in their torso.

So I created this combination of both creatures to solve the problem. Now it has one body and one head like god intended.

[othmeralia]

I LOVE a well used and well annotated book! Any signs of actual, everyday usage is such a wonderful find in rare books.

This is found in our copy of Bouquet composé des plus belles fleurs chimiques (1629) by David de Planis Campy.

[victusinveritas]

Snails and rabbits were both larger and had a tendency to attack unsuspecting gardener-warriors.

[upennmanuscripts]

Will it cluck, or will it bark? In either case, a pink chicken-dog gazes skyward in the bottom margin of f. 250r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible. #drollerydonnerstag

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[ammonitetestpatterns]

"examples of prime marginalia in a latin grammar book. “se saper brami s'io te porto amore / mira di sopra il mio ferito core” (if you desire to know if i love you / look above at my wounded heart)."

[jbbartram-illu]

I managed to sneak not one but two Medieval Mugs into this batch (they were originally supposed to be Lascaux mugs, but I was in the final stressed days of finishing the glazing & needed a silly & colourful break!!)!

Much like the Flicker BirdLady I posted last, these might be my best Medieval pieces yet - the colours fired up SO well and I especially love the proud-of-their-fish FishMonk <3

(& again, yep, these two mugs are in the shop update December 2nd! See a couple posts back for more info!)

[cuties-in-codices]

sweeping up the alphabet

border illustrations from the hours of marguerite d'orléans, france, 15th c.

source: Paris, BnF, Latin 1156 B, fol. 135r

[fox-teeth]

Okay tumblrinas if I don't get the second series of medieval illuminated manuscript stickers (as seen in this post) printed tomorrow they gotta wait until 2025.

I have four designs ready (above) but I need help with the rest, so we're running some non-binding polls. The first poll is BATS.