#marginalia

[marginaliadesign]

[yeoldenews]

A selection of animals from various 17th and 18th century calligraphy copybooks which were drawn with single lines to practice (and show off) penmanship strokes.

[jbbartram-illu]

queck (in progress)

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

[gentlyepigrams]

This dog looks sheepish next to the initial-word at the beginning of Torah portion Tetsaveh (תְּצַוֶּה). BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277 CE-1324 CE; f.43r

[eshpur]

✣ Medieval Miku ✣

[lhoandbehold]

I've been looking for a fun/quick little animation sideproject to flex my frame-by-frame muscles, so introducing Margie! A cat-goose dragon based on this little fella from this medieval manuscript

[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.

[dionysiaproductions]

[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

[saltedsnailstudio]

carved a few more peculiar creatures

[yeoldenews]

A selection of birds from various 17th and 18th century calligraphy copybooks which were drawn with single lines to practice (and show off) penmanship strokes.

[eethok]

Hey you.....wanna see something cool?

THEY ARRIVED (technically two weeks ago but I am horrifically busy ATM)

I'm very obsessed

[marginaliadesign]

[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!)

[lhoandbehold]

Margie gets adopted [Context]