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

from the British Library, an Exultet Roll from the 11th century,a rare early medieval manuscript, is now fully digitized and made available online

Renowned Walters Art Museum illuminated manuscript collection merges with Stanford archive