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...

Adam Naming the Animals

Adam Naming the Animals

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,...

Legendary, in Latin, illustrated manuscript on vellum [Northern Rhine (Cologne), mid-twelfth century] - Sotheby's

Legendary, in Latin, illustrated manuscript on vellum [Northern Rhine (Cologne), mid-twelfth century] - Sotheby's

Three miniatures from an illuminated manuscript of Martin le Franc, L’Estrif de Fortune et de Vertu, in French, on vellum [Central France (probably Tours, possibly Lyon), c.1470-80] - Sotheby's

Three miniatures from an illuminated manuscript of Martin le Franc, L’Estrif de Fortune et de Vertu, in French, on vellum [Central France (probably Tours, possibly Lyon), c.1470-80] - Sotheby's

St. Christopher, full-page miniature on a leaf from an exceptional Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [England (perhaps Lincolnshire or East Anglia), late fourteenth century] - Sotheby's

St. Christopher, full-page miniature on a leaf from an exceptional Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [England (perhaps Lincolnshire or East Anglia), late fourteenth century] - Sotheby's