#medieval manuscript

[upennmanuscripts]

For #MiniatureMonday we have a 12th century Glossed Psalter (Ms. Codex 1058). Okay, maybe it's not miniature, but it's still pretty small. How small? It's not so easy to tell with the digital images, so we took it off the shelf to show you. The Psalm text is little, but the glosses are downright tiny!

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[mioritic]

Saint Dominic.

Breviary (Roman rite, Latin), Clermont-Ferrand, France, ca. 1482-1490

Bibliothèque du Patrimoine, MS 69 f. 500

[theartofmadeline]

yeah i'm wlw (wench loving wench)

[snailspng]

Frames from medieval manuscripts PNGs.

(Source: various manuscripts from British Library)

[archerinventive]

Happy Makers Monday!

I spent some time over the weekend working on orders, including one of my favorite items in the shop, the Bunny Belt. :)

It's always fun working on these little murder buns.

You can snare your own at the shop here

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArcherInventive

Wishing you all a wonderful week. I'm super excited to see those of you coming out to the Revenge of the Dragon event in Monroe WA this weekend. It's bound to be a hopping good time. ^^

Best!

[cuties-in-codices]

anatomical diagram of the brain, eyes, and nose

from a composite manuscript containing medical and arithmetical texts and illustrations, england, c. 1250–1310

source: Oxford, Boudleian Library, MS. Ashmole 399, fol. 22v

[lunegrimm]

"Totentanz/Danse Macabre" Probably one of my most well known & and most fitting for the season piece is once again available as a tapestry print!

[muspeccoll]

640-year-old fly, anyone?

We're not sure how long this fly has been in this 14th-century notary's notebook, but it was a favorite among the students who spotted it in class a few weeks ago.

La Turade, Bernard de. [Notarial Registry]. 1383-1393. VAULT DC95.A2 N6 1383

[didoofcarthage]

January calendar page with Janus and Capricorn, from the Stammheim Missal

German, probably 1170s

tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink

J. Paul Getty Museum

[upennmanuscripts]

I'd like to introduce you to LJS 57, a compendium of Astronomical text in Hebrew, written in Spain around 1391. It's an interesting combination of astronomy and astrology, and illustrates how the division between "science" and "not science" was not nearly so clear in the past as it is today. It has some fantastic illustrations of constellations!

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[m3dieval]

KK5013 Gladiatoria

[theartofmadeline]

a medieval style rendition of my cat parzival as a knight

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🐝 here are two golden illuminations from a pair of famous early 13th c. English bestiaries:

Aberdeen Bestiary, Univ. Lib. MS 24 f.63r Aberdeen University Library

Ashmole Bestiary, MS Ashmole 1511 f.75v Bodleian Libraries

[jeannepompadour]

Le livre appellé Decameron by Maître de Mansel (fl. 1440-1450)

[the-puffinry]

Illustration of the swan of the constellation Cygnus, with text or scholia within the figure of the constellation.

Illustration of the constallation Aquila the eagle, with text or scholia within the figure of the constellation. 

from Aratea, a Latin version of the Phaenomena, with extracts from Hyginus's Astronomica in the constellation figures, 9th century France, N. (diocese of Reims).

[cuties-in-codices]

reynard the fox as a clergyman, with birds in his cowl

in the book of hours of mary of burgundy, flanders, ca. 1470

source: Vienna, ÖBN, Cod. 1857, fol. 59v