"Touching Parchment" culminates 25 years of research on European medieval manuscripts (ca. #History #Manuscript #MedievalManuscript #MedievalWriting #Parchment #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-520-en/

This image is from the Smithfield Decretals, c1300-c1340. #medievalmanuscript #snailsincombat #medievalsnail
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Another theory for the prevalence of snails in combat in medieval manuscript is that it represents the struggle of the poor against the oppressive aristocracy. This image is from "Li Livres dou Tresor", 1315-1325. #medievalmanuscript #snailsincombat #medievalsnail

Another theory is that snails in combat in medieval manuscripts represent Lombards (a migrant group) being held back from taking over the culture (a wearyingly familiar trope). This image is from the Gorleston Psalter, 1310-1324. #medievalmanuscript #snailsincombat #medievalsnail

This particularly striking image of a knight (riding a dragon? fused to a dragon?) is from the Queen Mary Psalter, 1310-1320. #medievalmanuscript #snailsincombat #medievalsnail
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The association was occasionally made very plain in as in this 14th century French Franciscan Missal where a vulning pelican is centred above Christ on the cross. #medievalpelican #vulningpelican #medievalmanuscript
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This particular version is Italian and is from around 1300. #medievalpelican #vulningpelican #medievalmanuscript #deavibus #bestiary
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In medieval times, it was thought that pelicans fed their young by piercing their own breasts. This image is from c1225 and is from the Bodley bestiary. #medievalpelican #vulningpelican #bestiary #medievalmanuscript

It was created by the scribe, Angelus Vergecius (fl. 1564). #medievalpelican #vulningpelican #manuelphiles #medievalmanuscript
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Jotain kiehtovia uutisiakin taas vaihteeksi.
Some fascinating news for a change.

Lost manuscript of Merlin and King Arthur legend read for the first time after centuries hidden inside another book
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250324-the-magical-medieval-tale-revealed-by-a-100000-dollar-camera

#Merlin #KingArthur #MedievalManuscript #SuiteVulgateDuMerlin

Medieval Bible Returns to Salisbury Cathedral After Nearly 800 Years https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/medieval-bible-returns-to-salisbury-cathedral-after-nearly-800-years/ #medievalmanuscript

A Medieval Manuscript for a Healthy Life: Tacuinum Sanitatis https://www.medievalists.net/2023/12/medieval-tacuinum-sanitatis/ #MedievalManuscript

Hey, psssst! Does anyone care for some... fake roast venison? It's medieval! And super, super sweet! Aaand it is fancy - it brings it's own BLING! (I mean gilded almonds! Whoa!) And basically it's vegan, because it is a christian Lenten dish from the 1. printed German Cookbook from 1485. Have a look at it (and at my fail during cooking this. 😅). Experimental archaeology in action.

https://youtu.be/YxXpQYztqnw

My YT-Channel exists since.. mh.. 3 weeks? So, thanks for boosts and for following me! 🥰 Your actions feed my blogs!

Oh, and happy #easter and #TransDayOfVisibility! 🐇

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@markhburton While awaiting the return of digitised manuscripts in full context to the main British Library website, I've just discovered some favourites in their Images Online section: see for example https://imagesonline.bl.uk/search/?searchQuery=Luttrell+Psalter

🎨 #LuttrellPsalter, f161v (East Anglia c.1325-35)

#BritishLibrary #MedievalManuscript #DigitalLibrary #14thCentury #psalter #MedievalShip #medieval #manuscripts @medievodons

Thank you for your patience, followers! I know my posting here has fallen off of late. (I’ve had to grapple with a serious family issue in tandem in tandem with preparing for an international move.) Regular #MedievalManuscript posting services will resume next week!

@magdelenehall Amazing discoveries, thank you for highlighting! I've just ordered Michelle Brown's book, due out 1 Oct: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/bede-and-the-theory-of-everything

#NewBook #Bede #Lindisfarne #quill #MedievalManuscript #LindisfarneGospels @histodons @bookstodon

For #WorldLionDay please enjoy this fabulous #MedievalManuscript goth #lion
From Bibliotheque Saint-Genevieve MS 1029 (France, 14th c.), f. 127v:
https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?VUE_ID=1355539

Schon im Mittelalter gab es Selfies, was uns dieser Beitrag über zwei Selbstportraits des nicht ganz so bescheidenen Mönches und Buchmalers Rufillus lehrt.
#manuskript #handschrift #manuscript #buchkunst #buchmalerei #bookart #selfie #selbstportrait #rufillus #mittelalter #medievalmanuscript
https://medievalbooks.nl/2018/09/20/me-myself-and-i/

For those interested, ‘Publishing in a Medieval Monastery: The View from Twelfth-Century Engelberg’ by Ben Pohl is free to access until the 20th of July from Cambridge University Press.

‘This Element contributes to the burgeoning field of medieval publishing studies with a case study of the books produced at the Benedictine monastery of Engelberg under its celebrated twelfth-century abbot, Frowin (1143–78). Frowin was the first abbot of Engelberg whose book provision policy relied on domestic production serviced by an internal scribal workforce, and his tenure marked the first major expansion of the community's library. This Element's in-depth discussion of nearly forty colophons inscribed in the books made for this library during Frowin's transformative abbacy offers a fresh perspective on monastic publishing practice in the twelfth century by directing our view to a mode of publication that has received only limited attention in scholarship to date.’

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/publishing-in-a-medieval-monastery/17B31679A5EF213BFCAF283BBB4C6440?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark

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