#MedievalManuscript

[illinoisrbml]

☃️The RBML books were all dressed up in their finest velvet bindings when Uncle Jack (London) decided to crash the party in his best hipster flannel 🌲 So, what's the dress code for your books this holiday season? Season's greetings from the RBML team! #specialcollections #rarebooks #velvetbinding #jacklondon #callofthewild #medievalmanuscript #milton #ptolemy https://www.instagram.com/p/CmZ6MkFJd7M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[rongbennettart]

Murder bunnies abound and abide #murderbunnies #medievalmanuscript #nolaart#künst #studies #drawingboardtoday #gesturedrawing (at Somewhere on Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkOsah0P_ld/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#murderbunnies #medievalmanuscript #nolaart #künst #studies #drawingboardtoday #gesturedrawing

[gypsykingarmor]

I want to introduce you to the work of the Ukrainian graphic artist Mikhail Skop, who revealed himself in the best possible way in the work on the board game Deus lo Vult. And even after its publication, he continues to create in the unsurpassed style of medieval parody.

#medievalgames #deusvultmemes #deusvult #medieval #medievalart #medievalmanuscript #medievalmemes #medievalmeme #medievalgame

[peaceheather]

Surprisingly, only about an hour and twenty minutes to paint this background in. I'm very pleased with today's progress! #sca #scribal #medievalart #medievalmanuscripts #calligraphy #illumination #gilding https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7jjaXOBdc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#sca #scribal #medievalart #medievalmanuscripts #calligraphy #illumination #gilding

[the-mediaeval-monk]

A bird breathing gold fire

Add MS 62925 f.32r 

Source: The British Library

#manuscript #medieval manuscripts #medieval art #viktor athelstan #the mediaeval monk #cloistercore #medieval core #marginalia #medievalmanuscripts #middle ages

[arthistoryfeed]

Dream job, Apocalypse, Flanders ca. 1313 (National Library of France - BnF, Français 13096, fol. 87r) #manuscript #manuscripts #medievalmanuscript #apocalypse #medievalapocalypse #medievalages #medievalart (at BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKYwS19luVy/?igshid=8jmq1gvvbo4w

#manuscript #manuscripts #medievalmanuscript #apocalypse #medievalapocalypse #medievalages #medievalart

[pittrarebooks]

Christo-centrism in a Medieval Moralized Bible

This post was written by Charlie Taylor, a recipient of an Archival Scholar Research Award for the 2021 Spring Semester.

As part of my ASRA research, I’ve explored medieval illuminated manuscripts commissioned by queens of France, including this volume commissioned by Blanche of Castile. Blanche’s husband, Louis VIII of France, died when his heir was just 12 years old, and Blanche served as regent until Louis IX was old enough to take the throne. During her regency, which lasted from 1226 to 1234, she commissioned the Biblia de San Luis. The book is structured as a Bible moralisée, or moralized bible, intended to educate a young Louis on Christian doctrine and proper kingship.

(Above) Excerpt from 2001 reproduction of Biblia de San Luis.  

The page pictured above comes from a facsimile — a close reproduction made for scholarly purposes — of the Biblia de San Luis in Pitt’s Frick Fine Arts Library. The page contains two columns of text accompanied by illustrations, some of which depict scenes from the book of Genesis: at top left, God strolls with Adam in the Garden of Eden; at top right, God removes a rib from Adam to create Eve.   

However, not every illustration shows a scene from Genesis. If we look again at the top right, immediately below the creation of Eve, we see Christ on the cross, with a figure emerging from a wound in his chest. What is Jesus doing in the book of Genesis? Why does explicitly Christian imagery appear on this page, when the life of Christ occurred centuries after the Hebrew Bible was written? Why does God have a cruciform halo — a halo containing the image of a cross?

Bibles moralisées don’t contain the entire text of the bible front to back; rather, they take stories from the bible and provide commentary on them, explaining their relationship to Christian doctrine. In the Biblia de San Luis, each roundel forms a pair with the one immediately below it, with the first scene taken from the bible and the second offering commentary.

It is important to note that the commentary in this bible represents a Christian-centric worldview and often dismisses Jewish readings of the text. The Biblia de San Luis treats the events of the Hebrew Bible as natural precursors to the events of the Christian Bible. Typology, as a form of commentary, takes certain events to foreshadow other events; this book asserts a typology in the creation of Eve and the creation of the Christian Church. In the second roundel, Ecclesia, a personification of the Church, emerges from Christ’s chest. The accompanying text explains that the scene from Genesis, in which God puts Adam to sleep and makes Eve from his rib, signifies God putting Christ to rest on the cross and pulling the Church from his side. Here, Christian doctrine (and the Church as an institution) becomes central to understanding the book of Genesis, pushing the story’s Jewish origins to the margins.

Works cited

William of Auvernge and Ramón Gonzálvez Ruiz. Biblia de San Luis. Barcelona: M. Moleiro, 2001.

Ferrante, Joan. “Blanche of Castile, Queen of France.” Epistolae, 2014. https://epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/woman/77.html.

#ASRA2021 #medievalmanuscript #blanche of castile #medievalstudies #biblia moralisée

[spudart]

BIBLE LEAF Ref 588 recto by RMGYMss. https://flic.kr/p/2hFEgPq This is a superb leaf with a historiated initial from a Bible that was produced in France (Paris) in the middle of the thirteenth century. The text begins in chapter 27 of the Gospel of Saint Matthew in verse 4 and continues to the end of that Gospel. Then follows the Prologue to Saint Mark's Gospel beginning “Marcus evangelista dei electus et Petri in baptismate filius” and Saint Mark's Gospel itself from the beginning to in verse 34. The size of the leaf 199200mm x 136mm (7 8/10ins. x 5 4/10ins.). There are a significant number of marginal glosses, two of which are unusually in red and most of which are enclosed by red lines. IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE GLOSSES ARE REFERENCES TO THE EUSEBIAN TABLES. PURCHASE DETAILS: - Purchased from Griffon’s Medieval Manuscripts, October 2019. GENERAL COMMENTS This is a nice leaf on thin vellum that is in overall good condition. It has a wonderful historiated initial and it must have been from a good quality pocket Bible. Ref 397, Ref 398, Ref 403, Ref 502, Ref 587, Ref 588 and 589 are all from the same Bible. PROVENANCE: - It has been established that the above leaves are from the Bible that was lot 72 in Sotheby's London sale of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures on 1st. December 1998 and which was described there as “Bible, in Latin, with the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, illuminated manuscript on vellum (Paris, mid-thirteenth century ) Est. £12,000-18,000. It sold for £35,000 plus buyers premium of £5,000. The catalogue description included the following provenance information: - (1) In England in the Middle Ages, presumably in East Anglia. Notes on the second flyleaf are apparently signed “J. Doys”. Above that is an ownership inscription in a fifteenth-century hand, “John Paxten doone thys bok”. Paxten is an acceptable varient of Pasten, and the manuscript might have belonged to the celebrated Suffolk family of letter-writers, perhaps John Paston (1421-1466), legal advisor to Sir John Fastolf, or to either of his sons, both called John. The elder son, John Paston II (1442-1479), had a notable library of Middle English books, including a manuscript of Chaucer and a very early copy of Caxton.s Game and Playe of Chess, and in January 1475 he bought for 20s.6d. The library of the family chaplain, James Gloys (d.1473), which must have included a Bible (N.Navis, Paston Letters and Papers,I, 1971, pp.516-8 and p.373). (2) The library of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, the house of the Tollemache family built in 1510. There were already manuscripts at Helmingham before the Reformation, and many others were gathered in from local East Anglian collections by Sir Lionel Tollemache, who succeeded his father in 1575 and died in 1612. His grandson, the third baronet (1624-1669), was created first Earl of Dysart in 1643. The present manuscript was rebound for the fourth Earl of Dysart (1708-1770), after his succession in 1727. It has the Helmingham shelf label L.J. II.14 (changed in pencil to IV.14); the brief list of Helmingham books by the Historical Manuscripts Commission, I, 1874, Appendix, p.61, refers to “several splendid MSS. Of the Bible”. It probably remained at Helmingham until the 1950's when a number of private sales took place, mostly through the Robinson brothers. (3) Lord Wardington, with his gilt bookplate inside the lower cover. (4) The property of the Comites Latentes Collection, Geneva, MS.203, bought at Christie's, 8th. December 1982, lot 139. INFORMATION CONCERNING THE ILLUMINATION: - The Sotheby's catalogue description included the following about the Bible's illumination: - Although the book was used in England, it was almost certainly illuminated in Paris. The miniatures are characterised by tiny figures, bright colours – including pale green and orange – and gold highly burnished to a mirror finish. The styl is that of the SOISSONS ATELIER, as defined by R. Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of Saint Louis, 1977, pp.77-8 and 216-7, a workshop which evidently specialised in the illumination of Bibles. It takes its name from a Bible now in Soissons, ms.63. A notable feature of the present Bible is that at least 35 of the historiated initials preserve guide sketches for the artist, little thumbnail diagrams in plummet in the margins to indicate the subjects to be drawn. They were intended to be erased, and sometimes there are shadowy marks of erasure. This is as addition to approximately 30 manuscripts recorded with such marks by J.J.G. Alexander, Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work, 1992, pp.184-185. The sketches occur on fols.47v (although the miniature is cut out, the sketch clearly represents God talking to a horned Moses), 74v, 119v, 132r, 155r, 172v (rather faint),177v, 186r, 196v, 209r, 211r, 213r, 217v, 222r, 227r, 238r (faint), 243v, 275v, 294v (faint), 298v, 316r, 325v, 326v, 328r, 328v (partly erased), 333r, 334r, 334v, 337v, 338v, 357r (faint), 401r, 415r, 420r and 434r. ATTACHING THE LEAVES IN THE COLLECTION TO THE FOLIOS IN THE BIBLE: - REF 397 Folio 337v, Malachi preaching to two(?) men. This is a miniature for which there is a sketch. It is very faint and can only just be seen. REF 398. Folio 222r, Christ blessing. This is a miniature for which there is a sketch. REF 403. Folio 243v, Ecclesia holding a chalice. This is a miniature for which there is a sketch. REF 502. Folio 298v, Ezekiel dreaming of the man, ox eagle and lion. This is a miniature for which there is a sketch. REF 587. Folio 432r, Saint Peter with key. This miniature does not have a sketch. REF 588 Folio 368v, Saint Mark with his Llion. This miniature does not have a sketch. REF 589. Folio 332r, Habakkuk. This miniature does not have a sketch.

#medieval #illuminated #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #illuminatedmanuscript #bible #france #french

[kislak-center]

Gerbert of Aurillac (Sylvester II) Isagoge geometriae (Introduction to Geometry) Northern Austria (Saint Lambrecht?), mid-12th c., with late 15th- or early 16th-c. humanist annotations University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 194 Gerbert of Aurillac (ca. 945–1003) was the first Frenchman elected to the papacy; he reigned as Sylvester II for the final four years of his life. His renown, however, stems from his prowess as a mathematician and pedagogue. Among his achievements were the reintroduction of the abacus and armillary sphere to Western Europe, via the Islamic civilization of Al-Andalus.

#makingtherenaissancemanuscript #penn #sims #kislakcenter #philadelphia #medievalmanuscript

[bibliophilly]

Opera, including Lucidarium artis transmutationis metallorum; extracts from the Sommeta and Violetta; and Epistola,  Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History, 1557 (Othmer MS 8)

BiblioPhilly is LIVE!

http://bibliophilly.library.upenn.edu/

#bibliophilly #medieval #medievalmanuscript #illuminatedmanuscript #specialcollections #rare books #books #pacscl #philadelphia #philly

[kallosgraphos]

Adicionar os detalhes a branco é sempre um dos momentos mais bonitos do processo ❤️ #calligraphy #medievalmanuscript #medieval #portuguesepoetry https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NPRX5jKZXBptR9fOrENdZQkcFFxUR7_nIxKE0/?igshid=yoeeg0qgjstt

#calligraphy #medievalmanuscript #medieval #portuguesepoetry

[illinoisrbml]

Shiny! 🌟 RBML recently acquired a facsimile of the Oxford Menologion – a mid-14th century prayerbook possibly from Thessaloniki. The text has a pictorial calendar of the saints for the full year, which are illustrated in 103 full-page miniatures and 2 texts in Greek. Call number: IUQ05026 #specialcollections #rarebooks #byzantine #greek #medievalmanuscript #facsimile https://www.instagram.com/p/CVN0XdkrXsM/?utm_medium=tumblr

#specialcollections #rarebooks #byzantine #greek #medievalmanuscript #facsimile

[uicb]

UICB MFA candidate Madison Bennett @madbenn will be teaching a Medieval Manuscript workshop in Seattle on January 11th. Students will get to create and illuminate their own Medieval versals on real vellum with genuine gold leaf!! You can sign up through @editions.studio’s website. . . . #uictrbook #medievalmanuscriptillumination #calligraphy #bookarts #bookstagram #medievalmanuscript #illumination #versal #seattlebookarts #typography #seattleart https://www.instagram.com/p/B5lLy_4pHSd/?igshid=wh8o3olheumb

#uictrbook #medievalmanuscriptillumination #calligraphy #bookarts #bookstagram #medievalmanuscript #illumination #versal #seattlebookarts #typography #seattleart

[wiseoldowl72]

This is me today. I'm so tired of fighting the dragon. I've taken everything under the sun for the last two days and the migraine is winning. I want this to be over. . . #lifeonosage #chronicmigraines #migraines #chronicillness #chronicpain #Repost @alexandre.leducq • • • • • J'ai dit "A la niche !" Titre : Livre d'heures à l'usage de Rome Auteurs: Enlumineurs actifs à la cour du roi René à Tarascon ( identification François Avril) Date : 1450-1460 Lieu : Provence Établissement de conservation : #beauxartsparis Cote : Ms Mas 4 (donation Jean Masson) #illumination #manuscrit #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #medieval #illuminatedmanuscript #rarebooks #ancientbooks #15thcentury #lannister #bibliophilia #bookofhours #patrimoine #culture #medievalart #middleage #moyenage #medievalhistory #antiquebooks #arthistory #bibliotheque #dragons #marginalia https://www.instagram.com/p/B8SkpGpgndV/?igshid=143w6giz3moml

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[peaceheather]

A good day's session, considering my otherwise low energy level. This capital took about an hour to an hour and a half, to paint the various base colors, shade, highlight, and outline. #sca #scribal #medievalart #medievalmanuscripts #medieval #calligraphy #illumination #gilding https://www.instagram.com/p/CnaFNs-p-IU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#sca #scribal #medievalart #medievalmanuscripts #medieval #calligraphy #illumination #gilding

[the-mediaeval-monk]

I absolutely love the calligraphy here, especially the initial! What kind of animals do you think they are? I think one might be an eagle based on its beak, but I’m not 100% sure. The beginning of chapter 42 of The Rule of Saint Benedict

Harley MS 5431 f.69v 

Source: The British Library

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#viktor athelstan #cloistercore