Wild women, big fish and scary faces are among the nearly 40 medieval manuscript images collected from Twitter in the last week.

The Voynich manuscript has eluded interpretation for a century. It was written in Central Europe in the 15th century and rediscovered by antique book dealer in 1912. Despite intense scrutiny, no one has been able to read the mysterious script.

Michiel, Pier Antonio 1510-1576 (Italian) Title: Cinque Libri di Piante 16th century illustration

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg.

Sagittis ac a non est tincidunt? Scelerisque in, ultricies quis vel parturient, lorem adipiscing cursus ut? Placerat, sagittis tincidunt magna porta, nascetur natoque porttitor integer.

Light on text and heavier on pictures, this post offers three memorable pieces of art from an eighteenth-century Syriac Gospel lectionary. The manuscript comes from the collection of the Dominican Friars of Mosul (DFM), no. 13, which was completed in August of 1723 in Alqosh. The DFM collection is one of several digitized recently by…

Thanks to the generous support of the Associates of the Boston Public Library, the BPL recently digitized two monumental, highly decorated…

Custom Illuminated Manuscript Dominique Jordan

Acryllic on parchment-paper My first-ever SCA calligraphy piece! Submitted for the A&S Competition at College War 1999

Book of Hours, France, Paris, ca. 1460

Jean Bénard, Recueil des principaux seigneurs qui passerent la mer avec Guillaume le Conquérant. Français 19000 (volume) -- -- manuscrits

https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=yates_thompson_ms_8_fs001r f.321r

Horae (Rome) dites Heures de Saulx-Tavannes [Livre d'heures, en latin] -- 1533 -- manuscrits

Vita Beatae Virginis Mariae, cum precibus piis. [illustrations de] / [Jean Hubert] -- 1548 -- manuscrits

: Processionale; Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

The goal of e-codices is to provide free access to all medieval and a selection of modern manuscripts of Switzerland by means of a virtual library. On the e-codices site, complete digital reproductions of the manuscripts are linked with corresponding scholarly descriptions.

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W XVI wieku, w czasach rosnącej popularności książki drukowanej, iluminowane rękopisy jeszcze wyraźniej niż dotąd nabierały cech przedmiotu luksusowego. Technika wykonywania pergaminowego kodeksu nie zmieniła się zasadniczo od wieków, a droga nawet najbogatszych, ociekających złotem i dekorowanych licznymi miniaturami ksiąg, które miały trafić do rąk władców i możnych, zaczynała się zwykle na łące. Z łąki do warsztatu Mszału Erazma [...]