Tuesday, December 13, 2011


        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)

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

                                                                 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

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday, May 28, 2011

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 John, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.4, fol. 178v

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 Matthew, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.4, fol. 33v

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

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 Fall of the Rebel Angels (Apocryphal), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.106, fol. 24r

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday, May 1, 2011


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

Thursday, April 7, 2011


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

Persian "Book of Kings" sale makes record books

Sunday, March 13, 2011





















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

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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..."

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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.)

Sunday, February 27, 2011


 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




Friday, February 25, 2011

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

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Loyset Liédet (Getty Museum)
Loyset Liedet (Flemish illuminator 15th c )
Maugis Fighting the Serpent and Gaining the Enchanted Horse

                                                                                                 (Lettre Batarde script)

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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

Saturday, February 19, 2011

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

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

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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) 

Monday, February 14, 2011

Sunday, February 13, 2011

University of Florida

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

Saturday, February 12, 2011

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