Thursday, September 5, 2013

Beyond Borders: In the Margins: Reading a Fifteenth Century Medica...

Beyond Borders: In the Margins: Reading a Fifteenth Century Medica...:    London, Wellcome Library MS 5262 is a late medieval vernacular medical recipe collection. The manuscript was copied in the e...

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Dianne's Medieval Writing: Working Scripts for (Somewhat) Ordinary Books

Dianne's Medieval Writing: Working Scripts for (Somewhat) Ordinary Books:   Standard paleography textbooks tend to categorise scripts neatly, then present the finest or most representative of each type, giving the ...


Saturday, August 24, 2013

Parchment and Pixel: Helmarshausen Psalter, Christ on the Cross, with M...

Parchment and Pixel: Helmarshausen Psalter, Christ on the Cross, with M...: Helmarshausen Psalter, Christ on the Cross, with Mary and St. John, Walters Manuscript W.10, fol. 41v , originally uploaded by Walters Art M...


Sunday, July 21, 2013

Parchment and Pixel: Prayer book, Office of the Dead, Walters Manuscrip...

Parchment and Pixel: Prayer book, Office of the Dead, Walters Manuscrip...: Prayer book, Office of the Dead, Walters Manuscript W.182, fol. 67v , originally uploaded by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts . Th...

Dianne's Medieval Writing: When Did Latin Become Dead?

Dianne's Medieval Writing: When Did Latin Become Dead?:     It is commonly asserted that Latin was a dead language in the middle ages. Well, it wasn't. They simplified and changed the grammar,...

Monday, May 6, 2013

Illuminated Manuscript, Gloss on The lamentations of Jeremiah, Decorated initial Q, Walters Manuscript W.30, fol. 13v

Single leaf with Lutheran devotional design, Orb of the Empire created through devotional writing, Walters Manuscript W.728, fol. W.728r

Illuminated Manuscript, Reichenau Gospels, Dedication image with St. Peter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.7, fol. 9v

Illuminated Manuscript, Doffinnes Hours, Floral Decoration, Walters Manuscript W.185, fol. 226r

Illuminated Manuscript, Doffinnes Hours, Souls in the Bosom of God, Walters Manuscript W.185, fol. 171v

Illuminated Manuscript, Doffinnes Hours, Last Judgment, Walters Manuscript W.185, fol. 138v

Illuminated Manuscript, Doffinnes Hours, Lamentation, Walters Manuscript W.185, fol. 79v

Illuminated Manuscript, Doffinnes Hours, Annunciation, Walters Manuscript W.185, fol. 13v

Psalter, Death of the Virgin, Walters Manuscript W.78, fol. 2r

Saturday, March 30, 2013

How Sir Galahad Sir Bors and Sir Percival were fed with the Sanc Grael; But Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way"


      watercolor, by  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1864       Tate, Britain

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Gospel Book, Annunciation, Walters Manuscript W.540, fol. 7v

Gospel Book, Baptism of Christ, Walters Manuscript W.540, fol. 9r

Gospel Book, Transfiguration, Walters Manuscript W.540, fol. 9v

Gospel Book, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, Walters Manuscript W.540, fol. 10v

Gospel Book, Raising of Lazarus, Walters Manuscript W.540, fol. 10r

Gospel Book, Holy Women at the Tomb of Christ, Walters Manuscript W.540, fol. 13r

Gospel Book, Evangelist portrait of St. Luke, Walters Manuscript W.540, fol. 125v

Gospel Book, Evangelist portrait of St. Matthew, Walters Manuscript W.540, fol. 17v

Gospel Book, Harrowing of Hell, Walters Manuscript W.540, fol. 12r

Friday, March 8, 2013

Parchment and Pixel: T'oros Roslin Gospels, The feeding of the five tho...

Parchment and Pixel: T'oros Roslin Gospels, The feeding of the five tho...: T'oros Roslin Gospels, The feeding of the five thousand, Walters Manuscript W.539, fol. 67r , originally uploaded by Walters Art Museum ...

Sunday, February 10, 2013

three images from a 15th century Netherlands prayerbook, Stowe 23;British Library, digital collections
  
 
 
Stowe 23 f.56  Margaret and the Dragon
 
 
 
 

 
Stowe 23  f.47v  John the Baptist
 
 
 
 
 
Stowe 23 f.62   Clare, Francis, and Bernardino

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Parchment and Pixel: Single leaf from a short work on the Passion of Ch...: Single leaf from a short work on the Passion of Christ, Carrying the cross, Walters Manuscript W.731, fol. W.731r , originally uploaded by W...


Sunday, January 27, 2013

Parchment and Pixel: Leaf of a Missal with the Crucifixion and Canon of...

Parchment and Pixel: Leaf of a Missal with the Crucifixion and Canon of...: Leaf of a Missal with the Crucifixion and Canon of the Mass, Crucifixion, Walters Manuscript W.757, fol. W.757r , originally uploaded by Wal...

Monday, January 21, 2013

Pliny in his study with landscape,seascape,animals, sun and moon

 
Pliny in his study




 
 
Harley 2677 f.1

Cats and Mice from a 13th c.English Bestiary,British Library

                              cats and mice  from an English Bestiary, 2nd quarter of the 13th century

Thursday, January 10, 2013

two creatures oppose each other under a blue and gold foliated sky

 confrontation between a snail and a mouse
 
British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
Egerton 1121 f. 10; Language: German; Gothic cursive script; from the Spiegel der Weisheit; Austria, 1430
 Workshop of the Grillinger Bibel

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Jan Van Eyck

 
The Finding of the True Cross c.1422 
 
from the Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame 

Sunday, January 6, 2013

images from Harley 4431, aka "The Book of the Queen", Christine de Pizan, 15th century, British Library

 
 
f 115 v  Aurora Bringing the Dawn
 
 
 
 
 
 
Man of sorrows
 
 
 
 Christine de Pisan presenting her book to queen Isabeau of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 The lover telling of his love to his lady in a garden. 
 
 
                                      Bacchus and his followers
 
 
 
  two women standing in a sphere of the cosmos
 
 
 
 
f 290 detail Christine de Pizan in her study with the personifications of Rectitude, Reason, and Justice, while outside, the ladies build the Cité des dames
 
 

f 290  including foliate border and illuminated initial;script is Gothic cursive 
 
 
 
 Pyrrhus avenging the death of Achilles
 
 
 
  Queen Penthesilea and her army of Amazons on their way to aid the Trojan army
 
 
 
 
 Hermaphroditus
 
 
 
 Queen Pasiphae
 
 
Narcissus
 
 
 
Ceres sowing corn
 
 
 
 
 Mercury inspiring the speech of the learned
 
 

 
Shepherd
 
 
 
 
 
 Pegasus
 
 
 
 
 Christine de Pizan presenting her book to Louis of Orleans
 

British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts Harley 4431


The Making of the Queen's Manuscript


Christine de Pizan