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by Stephen J. Gertz Given contemporary physical conditions and tools, if you were a medieval monk or nun and knew how to swing quill and ...
The copying of books was also slow, tedious, and very time-consuming; it took years for a scribe to complete 'a particularly fine manuscript with colored initials and miniature art work.'
When we speak to visitors or students about our medieval manuscripts, we frequently find ourselves spending a significant amount of time talking about how such books were created. We discuss the ways that scribes worked and artists painted, and quite often we will then be asked just how it is...
full body woman mage from the witcher 3
Digitized manuscripts archives and rare books from Europe the near East and Northern Africa
Five new books that look at women in the Middle Ages, including queens and ogling.
The growth of private libraries was one of the most remarkable aspects of the history of the medieval book during the 14th and 15th centuries.
Just in time for Easter and Passover, we’ve hatched a practical guide to the centuries-old egg-based paint.
Gabriel Mälesskircher was an important German painter who enjoyed considerable renown in the mid-15th century...
Medieval scribes took their animal illustrations very seriously.
A medieval pattern book for scribes composed of two parts and dating from around 1510 and hailing from Swabia, Germany - including lots of wonderful calligraphy.
Medieval readers, especially studious ones, must have cursed their desks from time to time. It is not easy to manage desk space when working with often large and clunky medieval books. Scribes and translators developed work-arounds for these space issues, as I have shown in a blog post on medieval desktops. Scribes would place two…
Scribal abbreviations, or sigla, are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Ol...
Yo, medieval scribes: no one's going to read the text you so painstakingly lettered if you continue to draw weird and dirty pictures in the margins. Well, I guess you're all dead, so we can't fix this now, can we?
This post is devoted to a particularly attractive and rare kind of medieval manuscript: the model book. A feast to the eye, the object is filled with drawings and paintings that were meant to show scribes and illuminators how to decorate letters, paint initials, or add large segments of decoration to the page. Within this tradition, two types of model books can be…
This blog connects to two earlier entries in medievalfragments: Irene O'Daly's recent blog on how scribes are depicted in medieval art (here); and Jenneka Janzen's assessment of how we are to understand the "physical scriptorium" (here). Something struck me when I read both pieces, in particular when I looked at the images accompanying Irene's blog.…
In early medieval manuscript culture, monks copied manuscripts by hand. They copied not just religious works, but a variety of texts including some on astronomy, herbals, and bestiaries.
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