The Lamb Defeating the Ten Kings 
c. 1220-1235 tempera and gold leaf on parchment
J Paul Getty Museum


Gothic manuscript illumination featured at the Getty in special exhibition includes recently acquired Abbey Bible

from Artdaily.org:
Getty Museum presents "Gothic Grandeur": Manuscript illumination, 1200-1350

about the Abbey Bible (from the Getty Iris blog)

from the Wall Street Journal,on The Walters Art Museum exhibit opening Sunday, Lost and Found:The Secrets of Archimedes

A history of Ireland in 100 objects Ardagh Chalice, eighth century

Woodcut map and diagram of the world in Lilius, Zacharius: Orbis breviarium

Woodcut map and diagram of the world in Lilius, Zacharius: Orbis breviarium, a photo by University of Glasgow Library on Flickr.

Large woodcut initials in Eusebius Caesariensis: Chronicon

Large woodcut initials in Eusebius Caesariensis: Chronicon, a photo by University of Glasgow Library on Flickr.

Woodcuts and annotations in Publicius, Jacobus: Ars oratoria, ars epistolandi et ars memorativa

Woodcuts and annotations in Publicius, Jacobus: Ars oratoria, ars epistolandi et ars memorativa, a photo by University of Glasgow Library on Flickr.

Woodcut diagram in Publicius, Jacobus: Ars oratoria, ars epistolandi et ars memorativa

Woodcut diagram in Publicius, Jacobus: Ars oratoria, ars epistolandi et ars memorativa, a photo by University of Glasgow Library on Flickr.

Decorated initial and unidentified annotations in Seneca, LuciusAnnaeus: Epistolae ad Lucilium

Decorated initial and unidentified annotations in Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: Epistolae ad Lucilium, a photo by University of Glasgow Library on Flickr.

Glasgow Incunabula Project from the Library at the University of Glasgow, Special Collections Department

The exhibit at the Gardner Museum was over in June but one can still read about it here:

Unique Venetian manuscripts on display at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

                                                                 Beginning of the Utrecht Psalter
From Utrecht Unversity:The Utrecht Psalter won't be available online until 2012 due to it's website being revamped

from Medievalists.net:Privilege and Duty in the Serene Republic:Illuminated Manuscripts of Renaissance Venice

Illuminated Manuscript, Gospels of Abbot Duden, Evangelist portrait of Luke, Walters Art Museum W.5, fol.59v

Illuminated Manuscript, Gospels of Abbot Duden, Evangelist portrait of Luke, Walters Art Museum W.5, fol.59v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

British Library purchases Cuthbert Gospel from Jesuits for 9 million

St. Cuthbert Gospel

British Library seeking funds to buy 7th century Cuthbert Gospel

more on the current Treasures of Heaven exhibit at the British Museum:
According to Karen Armstrong's thoughtful article in today's (well, actually yesterday's) u.tv news, the Medieval cult of relics reminds us of our common humanity and our need to comprehend otherness in ourselves

Should relic kissing be allowed at the British Museum's Treasures of Heaven exhibit? from today's guardian.co.uk

head of a woman

from the Abbey at Cluny 

 Romanesque 12th century

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.7r

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.7r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.64r

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.64r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.63v

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.63v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.11r

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.11r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.115v

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.115v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.131r

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.131r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.6r

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.6r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.9r

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.9r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

four leaves from a large 11th century lectionary from Germany, two Latin bifolia from Sotheby's Western Manuscripts

Royal National Geographic Society's Antique Map Fair opens tomorrow

from the Examiner.com:

Metropolitan Museum of Art protects its fragile medieval artworks with high tech environmental sensors

from the Independent.ie
The Fadden More Psalter, discovered in a bog in 2006, is now on display at the National Museum in Dublin

Illuminated Manuscript, Gospels of Freising, Evangelist Portrait of Mark, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.4, fol. 90v

Illuminated Manuscript, Gospels of Freising, Evangelist Portrait of Mark, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.4, fol. 90v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Gospels of Freising, Evangelist Portrait of John, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.4, fol. 178v

Illuminated Manuscript, Gospels of Freising, Evangelist Portrait of John, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.4, fol. 178v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Gospels of Freising, Evangelist Portrait of Luke, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.4, fol. 126v

Illuminated Manuscript, Gospels of Freising, Evangelist Portrait of Luke, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.4, fol. 126v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Gospels of Freising, Evangelist Portrait of Matthew, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.4, fol. 33v

Illuminated Manuscript, Gospels of Freising, Evangelist Portrait of Matthew, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.4, fol. 33v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Melk Missal, Decorated Initial, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.33, fol. 36v

Illuminated Manuscript, Melk Missal, Decorated Initial, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.33, fol. 36v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Bible Pictures by William de Brailes, The Crossing of the Red Sea, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.106, fol. 10r

Illuminated Manuscript, Bible Pictures by William de Brailes, The Crossing of the Red Sea, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.106, fol. 10r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Bible Pictures by William de Brailes, The Fall of the Rebel Angels (Apocryphal), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.106, fol. 24r

Illuminated Manuscript, Bible Pictures by William de Brailes, The Fall of the Rebel Angels (Apocryphal), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.106, fol. 24r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Book of Hours, The Arrest of Christ, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.165, fol. 13v

Illuminated Manuscript, Book of Hours, The Arrest of Christ, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.165, fol. 13v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Corvey Gospel fragment, Initial Page John's Gospel, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.751, fol.4r

Corvey Gospel fragment, Initial Page John's Gospel, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.751, fol.4r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Reichenau Gospels, Ornated Initial, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.7, fol. 16r

Illuminated Manuscript, Reichenau Gospels, Ornated Initial, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.7, fol. 16r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Book of kings (Shahnama), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.600, fol. 1b

Book of kings (Shahnama), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.600, fol. 1b, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Collected works (Kulliyat),double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting figures feasting outside and walking toward the banquet, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.618, fol. 3a

Collected works (Kulliyat),double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting figures feasting outside and walking toward the banquet, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.618, fol. 3a, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Manuscript Studies:Theories and Codicology,Uppsala University,October 27-28,2011

more from the International Medieval conference at Western Michigan University,link courtesy of Medieval News

from Medieval News

Ukrainian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale references the Ghent Altarpiece with 12,800 hand- painted wooden eggs

University of Chicago MEHAT Conference

The Magna Carta is on exhibition until June 5 at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco

Sixth International Conference on Insular Art to be held at the University of York

from Cabinet Magazine: Ingestion/ Table Manner

Western Michigan University to host world conference on Medieval Studies

                     Tabula Rogeriana,  world map by Muhammed al-Idrisi   1157 ce

Illuminated Manuscript, Map of the western part of the city of Venice (Venedīk) from Book on Navigation, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.658, fol.186a, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Map of the eastern part of the city of Venice (Venedīk) from Book on Navigation, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.658, fol.185b, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Bible Pictures by William de Brailes, Eli's Sons Commit Sacrilege and Hannah Brings Samuel to the Temple, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.106, fol. 17v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Duke Albrecht's Table of Christian Faith (Winter Part), Fountain of Life and the Four Rivers of Paradise, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.171, fol. 19v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Melk Missal, Abraham sacrificing Isaac, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.33, fol. 53v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, De Rectoribus Christianis, Decorated Initial, Walters Art Museum, Ms W.12, fol. 9v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Gift To Penn Libraries Focuses Attention On Medieval Manuscripts - Real Clear Arts

from artdaily: A rare facsimile of the Barcelona Haggadah is acquired by the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City

About Time - by Anthony Grafton > Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life

Late-16th-century illustration of a scene of the Shahnameh, showing  King Solomon

Persian "Book of Kings" sale makes record books

High-tech museum to take scholarly view of Bible - USATODAY.com

NASA - Disappearing Act

Earliest Printed Star Charts by Albrecht Dürer to Headline Sotheby's London Prints Sale

Hiroshige Wind Blown Grass Across the Moon  Color Woodblock print 1800-1900 ce

The Morgan Library & Museum - Upcoming Exhibitions - Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands

Antiquity Lives: Jerusalem's Earliest Writing Shows the City was Th...: "The latest issue of Biblical Archaeology Review highlights the evaluation of the earliest discovered writing from Jerusalem, which demonstra..."

At Home with the Rembrandts by Martin Filler NYRBlog The New York Review of Books

Illustrated Title Pages at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University

The British Museum › Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World

A lecture by Professor Matthew Canepa (U. of Minnesota) will take place at DePaul University this Thursday, March 3rd at 5:30 p.m. The lecture is "Understanding Cross-Cultural Interaction among the Ancient and Early Medieval mediterranean, Near East and Asia." It will be held at the north gallery of the DePaul University art museum (located at 2350 N. Kenmore Ave.)

 leaf from the Gospel Book of St. Gall  an 8th century Irish manuscript,  aka Codex Sangallensis 51, located in the Abbey Library of St. Gall,Switzerland

                                                                              Codex 51

leaf from the Zeytun Gospels, by Toros Roslin, Armenian illuminator,  Beginning of the Gospel of St. Mark  1256 ce

The Future of the Past: Toward the Preservation of Armenian Manuscripts Asbarez Armenian News

The 13th century Welsh manuscript, The Laws of Hywel Dda, can be viewed online for the first time at the National Library of Wales.
from BOOKTRYST

Loyset Liédet (Getty Museum)

Loyset Liedet (Flemish illuminator 15th c )

Maugis Fighting the Serpent and Gaining the Enchanted Horse

                                                                                                 (Lettre Batarde script)

                                         illustration from the "Caedmon" manuscript, circa 10th to 11th century , Angel Guarding the Gates of Paradise

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin, is still accepting applications for the Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography
(deadline for receipt of all application materials is March 1, 2011)

page from the Complutensian Polyglot

 (  image from Wikimedia )

A rare Hebrew font from the Plantin Polyglot Bible is revived:
 Letters Lost and Found - by Tablet Magazine > Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life

MEHAT Conference MEHAT – Middle East History and Theory

Oldest known historiated initial (from an  8th century Anglo-Saxon manuscript  known as the St Petersburg Bede, now housed in the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg) 

 from wikipedia

HPS: Leprosy, Language and Identity in the Medieval World

Lod Mosaic

A remarkable late antique mosaic floor recently uncovered in Israel is now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Lod Mosaic by G.W. Bowersock NYRBlog The New York Review of Books

Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum (Bowdoin College Museum of Art)

An ancient love letter from the 15th century records the first use of the word"valentine".

from:
BBC News - First Valentine: Lasting legacy of 500-year-old love

from the British Library:
Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Blog
and:
Evolving English

University of Florida

A certificate program in Medieval Archaeology is now being offered at the University of Florida.

Treasures of Heaven  a website on the exhibit now at the Walter's Art Museum in Baltimore (from Columbia University's Visual Media Center)

Wishing you all a Happy Valentine's Day