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#MedievalMonday & #ManuscriptMonday :
Solomon's Fleet, f.108r from De avibus (Aviarium of Hugh of Fouilloy), BNF lat.14429, N. France, c.1275-1300.
https://mandragore.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cgfbt719382
“This boat carrying 2 peacocks & 2 apes illustrates a story from the biblical book of 1 Kings 10:22: ‘For the king [Solomon] had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every 3 years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.’”
https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery257.htm

miniature painting from a medieval illuminated manuscript - boat carrying two peacocks and two apes with human rowing in rear

#ManuscriptMonday :
Folio from a Aja'ib al-Makhlugat wa Ghara'ib al-Mawjudat (The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence)
Probably Deccan, India, Mughal period, 17th c.
Ink, opaque watercolor, gold on paper
On display at Metropolitan Museum of Art (1975.192)

Photo of the manuscript leaf framed in white mat on display at museum

photo of the gallery label: “Folio from a Aja'ib al-Makhlugat wa Ghara'ib al-Mawjudat (The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence) Probably Deccan, India, Mughal period (1526-1858) 17th century Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper Gift of Richard Ettinghausen, 1975 (1975.192.8) This folio is from a manuscript describing real and fantastical creatures. At the top of the page, a leopard is depicted with white and brown dotted fur, running on a background of golden leaves, floral sprays and clouds. At bottom right there is a depiction of a roe deer (or stag) identified by the term "yamur" which emphasized in the text at line 7. This creature's pink spotted coat and blue horns and hooves are a somewhat imaginative depiction of the animal, which may have never actually been seen by the artist who created the painting.”

For #ManuscriptMonday + #MedievalMonday please enjoy this fabulous goth #lion :
Bibliotheque Saint-Genevieve MS 1029 (France, 14th c.), f. 127v marginalia detail https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/80994/canvas/canvas-1355539/view

zoomed in detail of a black rampant lion illustration in a medieval manuscript margin

For #ManuscriptMonday: Asian #Elephants & Indian #Rhinoceroses!
Lovely miniatures in a c.1590-3 imperial illuminated manuscript of The Memoirs of the Mughal Emperor Babur (r.1526-30)
British Library OR 3714, f. 378r + 379r
"Originally written in Chaghatai Turkish and translated into Persian at his grandson Akbar’s request by Mīrzā ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Khān."
https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=or_3714_f378r
https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=or_3714_f379r

digital scan of f.378r, illuminated manuscript miniature panting depicting a herd of Asian Elephants in a landscape [with Persian text]

digital scan of f.379r, illuminated manuscript miniature panting depicting a pair of Indian Rhinoceroses in a landscape [with Persian text]

#ManuscriptMonday :
“Solomon takes advice from the animals,”
from partial copy of Lights of Canopus (Anvar-i Suhayli) by Husayn Va`izi Kashifi (d. 1504-5), painting inscribed to Dhanu; Agra, Mughal India, c. 1595-1600.
Detached folio, ink, colours & gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script with painting on recto.
Chester Beatty In 04.74 https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image/In_04_74/1/LOG_0000/
See ALT for more info!
#IndianArt #MughalArt #IslamicArt #AnimalsInArt

“Solomon was known for his great wisdom, and for his ability to speak with all creatures. One day, he had the opportunity to drink the water of life, and to live forever. Hesitating, he decided first to take advice from the animals and birds. They all gathered at his court, and discussed the great decision. The heron advised the king not to choose immortality. There was only enough water for one person, the bird said, so if Solomon were to drink it, then he would outlive everyone he loved. This folio is from a copy of a highly-regarded Persian text, written by Husayn Va`izi Kashifi (d.1504-05), a preacher and scholar at the Timurid court in Herat (modern Afghanistan): <Lights of Canopus (Anvar-i Suhayli), a reworking of the animal fables Kalila and Dimna (Kalila wa Dimna)>. His patron was Amir Shaykh Suhayli, whose last name is punningly inserted into the new title. Writing in a sophisticated court style, Kashifi composed an updated version of these lively animal fables, which have a long transmission history going back to Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit texts. This manuscript was made in Mughal India, and features 96 paintings (mounted separately).”

#ManuscriptMonday + #MarsupialMonday :
#Opossum characters are found in several Mesoamerican codices; here is an amazing sequence from the Aztec Codex Fejérváry-Mayer of an opossum warrior-god performing a ritual decapitation:
http://www.famsi.org/research/graz/fejervary_mayer/ (original now in National Museums Liverpool)

Composite image showing a six panel sequence from plates 38-43 of the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer (multicolor illuminated manuscript, before 1521, Aztec) of an opossum warrior-god engaged in ritual combat and decapitation of its opponent. The fifth frame may depict a head-shrinking ceremony; the final frame depicts the opossum ascending the path to the star-sky.

#ManuscriptMonday + #MarsupialMonday:
#Opossum characters are found in several Mesoamerican codices; here is an amazing sequence from the Aztec Codex Fejérváry-Mayer of an opossum warrior-god performing a ritual decapitation:
http://www.famsi.org/research/graz/fejervary_mayer/ (original now in the National Museums Liverpool collection)

For #ManuscriptMonday / #MedievalMonday: a cute little #mole in a 13th c. English #bestiary!
British Library Harley MS 3244 fol 49v (England, c. 1236-1250)

detail from an illuminated medieval manuscript, illustration of a mole in a bestiary, drawn as a cute little grey creature with back legs standing up on lettering and front webbed legs facing forward, as if digging through the text

For #Crustmas on #ManuscriptMonday + #MedievalMonday, please enjoy some medieval #bestiary #crabs 🦀
Bib. Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 291 (De rerum naturis) f97v
Bib. Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 258 f25v
British Library, Harley MS 3244 f67r
Koninklijke Bib. KB KA 16 (Der Naturen Bloeme) f113v

collage of four different clippings from medieval European bestiaries featuring weird little crab guys (funny faces, not enough legs, look like bugs, etc.)

For #ManuscriptMonday and #MedievalMonday :
a hill full of #rabbits from The Lutterell Psalter, 1325-40, British Library Add. MS 42130, folio 176v.
https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_42130

"Several rabbits on a hill riddled with their tunnels. A white hunting animal, perhaps a dog, enters one of the tunnels. The two rabbits on top of the hill appear to be having a conversation. Marginal illustration from a psalter." (description via https://bestiary.ca/ beasts/beastgallery4483.htm)

#ManuscriptMonday + #MedievalMonday :
Adam Naming the Animals
Northumberland #Bestiary, Ms. 100 (2007.16), fol. 5v
England, c.1250-60
Pen-and-ink drawings tinted with body color & translucent washes; leaf 21 × 15.7 cm (8 1/4 × 6 3/16 in.)
Getty Museum: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109B1Y

digital scan of a bestiary illuminated manuscript page: illustration of the Biblical scene of Adam naming the animals, with Adam surrounded by a menagerie of mostly mammals and birds, with a few others

Now following #ManuscriptMonday

For #ManuscriptMonday, here is a pair of hippocampus-style #seahorses mingling with the more fishy looking #fish ;)
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Gr. IV. 35, f. 18v
(Greek Physiologus), 16th c.
https://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuviewer/iccu.jsp?id=oai%3A193.206.197.121%3A18%3AVE0049%3ACSTOR.241.10734

digitized scan of an illuminated manuscript page, top half with Greek text and bottom half with a miniature painting depicting an underwater scene with both normal looking fish and two seahorses (depicted with horse front halves and fish back halves)

For #ManuscriptMonday :
Serat Jaya Lengkara Wulang (BL MSS Jav 34), f. 129v
“Written in the court of the Sultan [Hamengkubuwana II] of Yogyakarta (Kanjeng Sultan ing Ngayogya) on 22 Rejeb A.J.1730 (7 Nov. 1803).”
“The #lion and the #crocodile …may suggest the names of the kings of Pringgabaya and Singasari, as ‘baya’ points to a crocodile and ‘singa’ a lion.”
British Library:
https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2019/02/javanese-poetics-and-canto-indicators-jaya-lengkara-wulang-mss-jav-24.html

digital scan of a page from a 19th century Javanese illuminated manuscript, illustration of a highly stylized pink lion (left) and light green crocodile (right) facing each other, with ornamentation above and blocks of text in between and below

For #WorldCrocDay + #ManuscriptMonday :
Nile #crocodile having its teeth cleaned by the "crocodile bird" (Herodotus' trochilus), from a 1615 copy of the Kitāb al-Ḥayawān (The Book of Animals) by al-Jāḥiẓ (c. 776–868/869 CE).
Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D140inf.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nile_crocodile_having_his_teeth_cleaned_by_the_trochilus.jpg
#IslamicArt #ArabicArt

For #MedievalMonday + #ManuscriptMonday : a smiley flat friend!
#Ray , f.95v in Lippische Landesbibliothek, Ms. 70 (Der Naturen Bloeme), South Holland or Flanders, c.1287-90
https://digitale-sammlungen.llb-detmold.de/content/pageview/6246649

digital scan, detail from a medieval illuminated manuscript, illustration of a ray, bottom view with eyes and mouth - ray is drawn as a simple cartoonish white figure outlined in black, with blue water and red background and rectangular gold leaf framing

#MedievalMonday / #ManuscriptMonday : bird party!
f.211r in BnF MS Français 9140: De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomeus Anglicus, translated by Jean Corbichon, 1479-80.
Gallica BnF: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10532588f/f435.item
#BirdsInArt

digital scan of an illuminated medieval manuscript page, illustrating an outdoor landscape scene full of a variety of both wild and domesticated birds

RT by @fondazionebeic: How it feels to write a literal face melting essay 🫠

At least there is a friendly bird to help!

(@NewCollegeOx, MS 369, f. 9r)

#ManuscriptMonday #MedievalTwitter

[2024-05-27 10:00 UTC]

For #ManuscriptMonday / #MedievalMonday:
Richard de Fournival
Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of Love), in Old French
N. Italy, c.1290
Morgan Library MS M.459, fols. 7v-8r

“The Bestiary of Love is a plea from a lover to his unsympathetic lady. The text refashions the traditional animal lore of medieval bestiaries by applying the lessons of nature to the lover's plight.“

photo of the open book and its gallery label in display case at library A DANGEROUS MELODY The Bestiary of Love is a plea from a lover to his unsympathetic lady. The text refashions the traditional animal lore of medieval bestiaries by applying the lessons of nature to the lover's plight. At top left a weasel delivers its young through its mouth, which the author compares to a woman delivering a refusal. Below is the Caladrius, a mythical bird that could signal a sick person's fate with its glance. If the lady looks away, the poet is doomed to suffer the death of love. At right, the author compares his lady to a siren whose sweet melody lures unsuspecting sailors to their death. Richard de Fournival Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of Love), in Old French Northern Italy, ca. 1290 MS M.459, fols. 7v-8r Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911

For #WorldBeeDay 🐝 + #BearAwarenessWeek 🐻 (AND #MedievalMonday + #ManuscriptMonday !): a medieval Winnie the Pooh?
from Flore de virtu e de costumi (Flowers of Virtue & of Custom)
N. Italy, 2nd quarter 15th c.
British Library Harley 3448 f. 10v
https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=2438

#manuscriptmonday

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