The Crusader Bible thumbnails

Stowe MS 17 f.16v https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=stowe_ms_17_fs001r#

There is an incomplete manuscript to delineate the phases of decoration. the decoration phase started after the writing of the text. The copyist left instructions to the illuminator, dissimulated on the margins. Decoration started with rubrics and the initials. When all the rubrics and the initials were finished, illustrations and ornaments started. The procedure for manuscript illumination was similar to pictorial work.

Illuminated Manuscript art is a wonderful way to weave together Lent, World History and tenets of the Catholic Faith.

Initial from a Choirbook; Italian; 15th century. A duplicate number MS.1656 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.

Eclectic historic science and art images from rare books and prints

The recent discovery of what appears to be an impression of a pair of medieval rivet spectacles in one of the Ransom Center's early printed books was cause for excitement. While conducting a survey of manuscript waste found in early printed books I noticed a faint reddish-brown impression of a pair of spectacles on the rear parchment endpapers of a copy of the Opera of Fr. Luigi di Granata.

The Voynich Manuscript, The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World, Description, History, Theories and solutions

Capitulare Evangeliorum et canones.

Voynich manuscript baths

Illuminated Manuscript Illuminated Manuscript

Psautier avec calendrier. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 10434, fol. 13v.

bear – Manuscript Art

Ruling by sharp instrument Publius Vergilius Maro, Ecloga, Georgica et Aeneis. Copyright Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 7925, fol. 108v. Retrieved by the web.

Manuscript Miniatures: Database & Image Collection

Glasgow University Library Special Collections The Rosarium Philosophorum, or Rosary of the Philosophers