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Deciphering Secrets: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe

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Antífonas y responsorios para los oficios comunes de los apóstoles, mártires y vírgenes] 1501 biblioteca digital hispanica BNE: MPCANT/31 round Gothic, ornamented capitals http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000168388&page=1

Pouncing holes bl add. ms 11283 12th C bestiary http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_11283_fs001r Heard through Krista A. Murchison‏ via twitter Maps, Middle Ages, Art, Artists, British Library, Vintage World Maps, Map, Artist

Pouncing holes bl add. ms 11283 12th C bestiary http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_11283_fs001r Heard through Krista A. Murchison‏ via twitter

Royal MS 10 E IV c 1300-c 1340 Decretals of Gregory IX with gloss of Bernard of Parma (the 'Smithfield Decretals') http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_10_e_iv_fs001r 211r History, Medieval Manuscript, Royal, History Nerd, Bernard, Ms

Royal MS 10 E IV c 1300-c 1340 Decretals of Gregory IX with gloss of Bernard of Parma (the 'Smithfield Decretals') http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_10_e_iv_fs001r 211r

Apocalypse (Revelation) with commentary by Berengaudus, in parallel Latin and French c. 1320-1330 fol. 8r British Library Add. ms. 17333 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_17333_fs001r

Lyon

Humour

Illustrated Manuscript

Steiner

Marge

Lib

JUSTINIANUS, Codex 13 th C h/t e.Steiner: "self-doubting manicule" https://twitter.com/PiersatPenn/status/836048006612930561 BVMM Lyon Municipal Lib 0373 http://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?mode=ecran&reproductionId=12254&VUE_ID=1328254&panier=false&carouselThere=false&nbVignettes=4x3&page=1&angle=0&zoom=&tailleReelle=

h/t E.Steiner: constellations http://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?mode=ecran&panier=false&reproductionId=12578&VUE_ID=1337924&carouselThere=false&nbVignettes=4x3&page=2&angle=0&zoom=petit&tailleReelle= pg. 20 14th, 16th C, Treaties on Mathematics and Astronomy Astronomy, Medieval, Mun, Mathematics

h/t E.Steiner: constellations http://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?mode=ecran&panier=false&reproductionId=12578&VUE_ID=1337924&carouselThere=false&nbVignettes=4x3&page=2&angle=0&zoom=petit&tailleReelle= pg. 20 14th, 16th C, Treaties on Mathematics and Astronomy

Follicles on parchment https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/42732/Kwakkel.pdf?sequence=1 Erik Kwakkel's blog entry on this parchment with multitudes of follicles is more interesting than I'd ever thought stubble could be.

Der naturen bloeme, Jacob van Maerlant - Dutch, early 14th C http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/02/the-flower-of-nature.html Another manuscript page that isn't necessarily "pretty" (other pages in the same book are lovely, with lots of nice drawings) but has a very cool story:

British Library: a 3rd century Egyptian papyrus (121 (2)) of magic spells. The images are demons with names written around them. http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/02/love-me-do.html noncommercial/educational use

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The Codex Amiatinus Facsimile http://www.umilta.net/binding.html A photo essay of the recreation (presumably printed, on paper) of the original from 716, in Florence, including details of the sewing frame and process used. cc use.

Eleventh Century Ottonian cover http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/view?exhibitionId=%7B9302F8AC-F691-48FF-A8E0-030B3299E284%7D&oid=467741 Leather, metal leaf, and ivory cover, Approx. 11th C, Germany, the text is 15th century. cc use

coptic endbands how-to videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKThD7m8NDz5u773TRbhzSAcsMgLTvsuw This is the most useful material I've seen about endbands. I don't know how authentic to medieval binding they are, but I understand what endbands are now. cc use

Conservation of two medieval Hebrew ms Conservation report of 15th century Byzantine-style copies of a text of Abraham bar Hiyya (d. 1136), Spanish scholar. Multiple photographs with descriptions of damaged limp vellum bindings, boards, sewing support, cover and ties. http://blogs.bl.uk/collectioncare/2014/11/the-conservation-of-two-late-medieval-hebrew-manuscripts-.html Inspiration, Pop, Hebrew, Up, Fantasy, 15th Century

Conservation of two medieval Hebrew ms Conservation report of 15th century Byzantine-style copies of a text of Abraham bar Hiyya (d. 1136), Spanish scholar. Multiple photographs with descriptions of damaged limp vellum bindings, boards, sewing support, cover and ties. http://blogs.bl.uk/collectioncare/2014/11/the-conservation-of-two-late-medieval-hebrew-manuscripts-.html

Advertisement sheet from Herman Strepel, professional scribe in Münster – this is how scribes showed what they could do & got hired. The Hague Royal Library, 76 D MS 45, c. 1447 cc use https://smarthistory.org/making-books-for-profit-in-medieval-times/

wax tablet (modern replica) on the right. On the left, image from Valerius Maximus Book of Vices and Virtues 20320 fol 177v, 15th C, showing students with wax tablets on their belts. cc use

Hornbooks: Books on a stick Erik Kwakkel from the University of Leiden has several blogs and a twitter account that is not to be missed. This post is about hornbooks, books that look like paddles or mirrors, used to teach children to read, used from about 1400 to 1800. https://medievalbooks.nl/2015/04/10/book-on-a-stick/ http://vm133.lib.berkeley.edu:8080/xtf22/search?rmode=digscript;smode=basic;text=hornbook;docsPerPage=1;startDoc=1;fullview=yes Vintage, Old Books, Teaching, Leiden

Hornbooks: Books on a stick Erik Kwakkel from the University of Leiden has several blogs and a twitter account that is not to be missed. This post is about hornbooks, books that look like paddles or mirrors, used to teach children to read, used from about 1400 to 1800. https://medievalbooks.nl/2015/04/10/book-on-a-stick/ http://vm133.lib.berkeley.edu:8080/xtf22/search?rmode=digscript;smode=basic;text=hornbook;docsPerPage=1;startDoc=1;fullview=yes

Early Music manuscript found in another work. cc. http://blogs.bl.uk/music/2014/12/earliest-polyphonic-music-discovered-in-british-library.html A PhD student found this "inked into the space at the end of a manuscript of the Life of Bishop Maternianus of Reims" and recognized it as very old musical notation – and now it's believed to be the oldest extant polyphonic music. It was written before music had staves or even notes, so it's cool the student recognized its significance. Musicals, Libros, Antigua, Choral Music, Classic Literature, Musica, Music Manuscript, Choir Music

Early Music manuscript found in another work. cc. http://blogs.bl.uk/music/2014/12/earliest-polyphonic-music-discovered-in-british-library.html A PhD student found this "inked into the space at the end of a manuscript of the Life of Bishop Maternianus of Reims" and recognized it as very old musical notation – and now it's believed to be the oldest extant polyphonic music. It was written before music had staves or even notes, so it's cool the student recognized its significance.

Incomplete illustration Winchester Bible, 12th C, at Winchester Cathedral: the writing, rubrics, sketching, and gilding were completed, but the illustrations had not been colored. http://www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/gallery/the-winchester-bible/ non-commercial use

William The Conqueror

Vignette (miniatures) for genealogy chart http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren/pageturn.html?id=MEDREN_4218616&rotation=0&currentpage=5 Genelogies of the Erles of Lecestre and Chester [manuscript]. Decoration: Miniature of two knights bearing shields with the emblems of Leicester and Chester. noncommercial use

ordinary hand

textualils medridionalis two hands

gothic textualis meridionalis

Carolingian

Heavy

Heavy And Light

carolingian heavy and light

Sample

Lecture

uncial sample from lecture

Nib

Wide

Light

uncial, 60 degree wide nib, and light hand