#medievalmanuscripts

[peaceheather]

Surprisingly, only about an hour and twenty minutes to paint this background in. I'm very pleased with today's progress! #sca #scribal #medievalart #medievalmanuscripts #calligraphy #illumination #gilding https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7jjaXOBdc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[wodeworm]

Guess I'll get devoured - Scorpion eating Dragon

[illinoisrbml]

☃️The RBML books were all dressed up in their finest velvet bindings when Uncle Jack (London) decided to crash the party in his best hipster flannel 🌲 So, what's the dress code for your books this holiday season? Season's greetings from the RBML team! #specialcollections #rarebooks #velvetbinding #jacklondon #callofthewild #medievalmanuscript #milton #ptolemy https://www.instagram.com/p/CmZ6MkFJd7M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[the-mediaeval-monk]

A bird breathing gold fire

Add MS 62925 f.32r 

Source: The British Library

[curiouscatalog]

From: Tymms, William Robert. The art of illuminating as practised in Europe from the earliest times. London : Day and Son, 1860

ND3310 .T89 1860

[internatural]

The Book of Sir Thomas More: Shakespeare's only surviving literary manuscript

via @BLMedieval

Source: British Library

[italianartsociety]

by Rachel Hiser Remmes

The transition from the papyrus roll of late antiquity to the codex, akin to the modern day book, paralleled the rise of Christianity in the first few centuries of the Common Era. The correlation between these two events is widely documented in medieval scholarship and a number of factors have to be considered when discussing this switch. Two variables that drove this transition were the need for a format more suitable to recording the longer narrative text of the New Testament and a more durable materiality that would allow for the preservation of the written word and the intercontinental travel undertaken by early Christian missionaries.

With the change in format, there were more opportunities to depict images alongside their relevant text, as each page, or folio, presented a single confined space in which an illustrator and scribe could work. This is opposed to the long, continuous format of the scroll where the text could progress unencumbered by page divisions. One of the earliest extant Bibles produced in the codex format, the Quedlinburg Italia (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS Theol. lat. fol. 485), exemplifies the proliferation of images. This manuscript was produced in Rome in the early fifth century and, as can be seen in the images, organized pages dominated by images. This manuscript is believed to have been made in the same scriptorium of the famous Vatican Vergil (Rome, BAV, Vat. lat. 3225) where images also came to play an important literary function.

The transition from roll to codex communicates the interdependence between materiality and functionality that underlies so many medieval objects. It is a relationship that we will continue evaluate in our study of Medieval Materiality.

Lowden, John. “The Beginning of Biblical Illustration.” Imagining the Early Medieval Bible, ed. John Williams (University Park: Penn State Press, 1999): 8-59.

Quedlinburg Italia (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, ms theol. lat. fol. 485)

Vatican Vergil (Rome, BAV, Vat. lat. 3225)

Homer, Book 2, Papyrus Roll, c. 150 C.E.

[gr365-blog]

#ThisIsAlabama come see what I’m so darn lucky to do for living #alabamalibraryassociation #convention2018 #medievalmanuscripts #bookofhours #illuminatedmanuscript #dcrmb #luckytodowhatilove #presentation #tenure #myfirstbookmark #havingblast #wareagle #libraries #comeandseeme #florance (at Auburn University Libraries)

[fam0uswhendead]

Credit to @sothebys This illuminated Book of Hours was written and illuminated at Reims in France, the Latin penned in gothic bookhand circa 1480. Every page is decorated with at least a one-sided panel border of foliage, fruit, flowers and birds on a gold ground, with fourteen large miniatures. It is currently being offered in our Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts online auction, open for bidding until 1 December. Link in bio to explore the catalogue. #SothebysBooks #MedievalManuscripts #BookofHours #Bibliophile ▫️ ▪️ ▫️ ▪️ ▫️ #ooft #tasty #style #creative #fashion #art #interiordesign #aesthetic #refined #impression #expression #balance #individuality #philosophy #kaizen #spirituality #psychology #design #famouswhendead (at Sotheby's) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIMEUfjgO6N/?igshid=1e2pm7nxs4b9n

[rusty-pincers]

Without further delay, let me kick off #inkwhatever day 1 with some of my favorite medieval motifs (@slaughterhouseslough you're welcome) Prompt: "Butt Trumpet" Also prompt: "medieval cats licking their butts" (manuscript-wise there's at least ten, including one hovering above Jesus' head during the Last Judgement) #inktober #inktoberprompts #ink #butttober #cattober #trumpetober #butttrumpet #trumptrumpet #maga #trump2020🇺🇸 #thedonald #aquaticceremony #constitutionalpeasant #dennis #kingarthur #medievalmanuscripts #marginalia #scribe #ye #jebus #lastjudgement #catlicksbutt #iamyourking (manuscript image courtesy Discarding Images Tumblr) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF1T3e-hikp/?igshid=6px1xeszcykd

[peaceheather]

A good day's session, considering my otherwise low energy level. This capital took about an hour to an hour and a half, to paint the various base colors, shade, highlight, and outline. #sca #scribal #medievalart #medievalmanuscripts #medieval #calligraphy #illumination #gilding https://www.instagram.com/p/CnaFNs-p-IU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kislak-center]

This scrumptious floral #endpaper is part of the 18th-century #vellum binding of a 14th-century manuscript codex outlining statutes of the Order of the Ship, founded in Naples in 1381 by King Carlo III 'di Durazzo'. *** Ordre de la nef, France, 1381 Ms. Codex 665 http://ow.ly/sfX230eFUjW Facsimile: http://ow.ly/h8Gc30eFUmp *** #kislakcenter #pennlibraries #librariesofinstagram #gothicscript #gothicbookscript #manuscript #manuscripts #medievalmanuscripts #manuscriptcodex #endpapers #bookarts #bookplate #exlibris #floral #floralpatterns #decorativepaper #muted #botanical

[muspeccoll]

#ManuscriptMonday: a peek inside one of our books of hours. This thick little book was obviously meant to be portable. It fits perfectly into a pair of folded hands and can be tucked into a pocket to be carried between prayer times.⠀ ⠀ Book of hours (use of Rome) : with added prayers and Marian litanies. [Venice, Italy] : [Producer not identified], [approximately 1470 to approximately 1490]. BX2080 .A2 1470z ⠀ ⠀ #manuscript #manuscripts #medievalmanuscripts #handwriting #handwritten #calligraphy #medieval #middleages #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraries #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #columbiamo #ifttt

[wiseoldowl72]

*drool* isn't this just a dream of a illuminated manuscript, choir book? #Repost @muspeccoll • • • • • #ManuscriptMonday brings you a large initial from the massive choir book we have on loan from a private collection this semester. Librarian provided for scale.⠀ ⠀ #manuscripts #medievalmanuscripts #choirbook #calligraphy #illuminatedmanuscripts #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary (at Ellis Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8-EHYdA_DX/?igshid=16mvljy0t5qnv

[pmstuff212]

Snuck some photos of Joe Coleman’s amazing exhibit. I could have spent hours, days looking at his work #joecoleman #meticulous #artwork #mindblowing #art #contemporaryart #channels #medievalmanuscripts #religiousexperience #newyorkcity (at Lower East Side) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6WyeicB35i/?igshid=f62adv078yaa