Thematic Pathways on the Web. Using Nanotechnology to Uncover Details of a Medieval Manuscript | Columbia News. Abigail Slawik, an intern at the library who was completing her master’s in art conservation at the time, led the project under Hagadorn’s supervision. Their goal was to assess what ink the manuscript was written with, completely treat the manuscript to prevent deterioration, and then put it back into its 17th century binding. Boynton reconstructed the correct ordering of the contents, based on the organization of the liturgical year. Hagadorn was trained in how to use these technologies to decipher ink as a member of the Ancient Ink Lab, a research group founded by Nano Initiative co-founder James Yardley, a now-retired Columbia chemist. The lab, which operated from 2009 to 2014, used nanotechnology developed at Columbia to analyze inks used in manuscripts from the ancient world.
The lab studied a variety of materials, including a fragment from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. It is one of several labs and ongoing research projects that eventually grew into the Nano Initiative. An Introduction to Medieval Ink | School of Advanced Study.
So many pricks, so little time #MedievalManuscripts. Herbals - BOTANICAL ART & ARTISTS. Medievalists.net - Where the Middle Ages Begin. The Bibliophile of Bruges | Europeana. The 14th and 15th centuries witnessed the rise of great princely and aristocratic libraries all over Europe. These were composed of books that had been inherited, received as gifts, purchased or personally commissioned, either for private devotion and personal education, for pleasure and amusement or for display. Courtly literature on romance and adventure (a large amount of which was usually written in vernacular) rubbed shoulders with scientific, moral, historical, biblical and hagiographic texts. Parts of these libraries usually followed their patrons in trunks on their voyages while the rest was scattered among their different residences; they were as much a part of their owner’s treasure as furniture, wall hangings or jewels.
As they grew, private book collections were usually transferred to dedicated spaces. King Charles V of France, for example, had his private collection moved from the Royal Palace on the Île de la Cité to a tower in the Louvre fortress in 1367. A little manuscript in disarray: Add. 4085 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections. This guest post is by Suzette van Haaren, a PhD student at the Universities of St Andrews and Groningen. She is writing her dissertation on the effects of digitisation for the reproduction, perception and preservation of medieval manuscripts. Follow her on Twitter @suzettevhaaren. Though at first glance CUL MS Add. 4085 does not look like anything unusual, this little psalter manuscript may be the strangest book I have ever worked with.
Nothing is out of the ordinary with its beautifully executed decorations or pen work initials that lace the text throughout, nor is there anything remarkable about its text per sé. But if you look closer the text of folio 1 does not comply with the text on folio 2: confusingly, it jumps from psalm 97 to psalm 51. The same goes for the folia that follow. A curiosity for study and amusement Nineteenth-century collectors Add. 4085 was bought in 1840 for Thomas Bateman’s collection of medieval manuscripts and rare books. Inside My Favorite Manuscript. DNA research into the secrets of 600-year-old parchment - Radboud Institute for Culture & History.
Medieval books hide secrets that are not immediately visible. In a new project, art historian Hanneke van Asperen will unravel the mysteries of 600-year-old parchment scrolls, together with Wageningen University & Research and Naturalis Leiden, using DNA and protein analysis. A first in the Netherlands. Recently, art historian Rob Dückers stated that some parchment scrolls from the 15th century, on the art market for a few decades, possibly belonged to a book from the library of the duke and bibliophile, Jan van Berry.
The parchments have beautiful edge decorations of tempera, gold leaf and ink. Excitement all around because the decorations closely resemble those of the Belles Heures, a world-famous Book of H-ours from the early 15th century that The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has in their possession. The Belles Heures were illuminated (with miniatures and marquee paintings) by the Van Lymborch brothers, originally from Nijmegen, at the court of John of Berry. Calves. Evrard d'Espinque’s Illuminations of *De Proprietatibus Rerum* (ca. 1480) Later in the same chapter, we can see the T-O shape repeated in another illuminated diagram, this time of the seven classical planets, distributed in space according to the regions of the zodiac, which are placed in the outer area of the circle.
At this map’s center sits the earth. This does not mean that medieval scholars thought that the earth was at the center of our solar system. Instead, the illumination shows the planets as they appear in the night sky, which is the primary datum of western astrology. In Book XI, De Aere (“On the air and weather”), the same little diagram of the world appears again, also against an abstracted blue background that evokes a summer sky, this time illustrating a section of the text about the four cardinal winds: septentrio, auster, favonius, and subsolanus. Memories, manuscripts and medieval ink | Royal Irish Academy. How often we say 'Send me a note' or even 'Text me'.
It all seems so easy. How can unlikely things like Bus-Pass, Uni-slim, Japanese Knotweed be linked to the Cathach? But all things are possible for a mind such as mine, which wanders, meanders, ambles, races, hither and tither. Like all children in the 50s, I had read at school the story of St Columba, and that he had magically in a single night copied a borrowed manuscript, the ensuing row over keeping the copy, his exile to Iona (in fourth class, learning to spell 'exile'!) , not being allowed to let his feet touch Irish soil, his cleverness at tying sods of Scottish turf to his feet so that he could return to Ireland and keep to the letter of his exile.
On my first visit to the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), I was researching an ogham stone near Ballyferriter in Co Kerry, Cathair na gCat (Cahernagat SMR ref KE042-093003). But true to form, when I am thwarted in a mission, my resolve is strengthened. There was no queue. A little manuscript in disarray: Add. 4085 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections. This guest post is by Suzette van Haaren, a PhD student at the Universities of St Andrews and Groningen. She is writing her dissertation on the effects of digitisation for the reproduction, perception and preservation of medieval manuscripts.
Follow her on Twitter @suzettevhaaren. Though at first glance CUL MS Add. 4085 does not look like anything unusual, this little psalter manuscript may be the strangest book I have ever worked with. Nothing is out of the ordinary with its beautifully executed decorations or pen work initials that lace the text throughout, nor is there anything remarkable about its text per sé. But if you look closer the text of folio 1 does not comply with the text on folio 2: confusingly, it jumps from psalm 97 to psalm 51. The same goes for the folia that follow. The 74 leaves that make up Add. 4085 – now available in full on the Cambridge University Digital Library – all taken from the same early fourteenth-century psalter, are bound in complete disorder.
English Manuscript Illumination. Manuscripts reflect the creativity of artists and scribes, and the resources of their patrons. Kathleen Doyle and Eleanor Jackson outline the development of book art in early medieval England. The Insular Period Anglo-Saxon England produced books of remarkable beauty and sophistication.
From around the seventh to ninth centuries, the style of manuscripts produced in Britain is known as Insular (literally, of the islands). Usage terms Public Domain in most countries other than the UK. The earliest flourishing of manuscript culture in Anglo-Saxon England took place in Northumbria, the kingdom that stretched north from the river Humber into Southern Scotland. A spectacular example of early Insular painting is included in a decorated copy of the Four Gospels probably made in Northumbria in the early eighth century (now British Library, Cotton MS Otho C V).
Tiberius Bede Incipit page to Book One of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica (British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius C II, f. 5v) Story-telling. Decades of manuscript photography on Digital.Bodleian – The Conveyor. From Andrew Dunning, R.W. Hunt Curator of Medieval Manuscripts Digital.Bodleian is the online home for Oxford’s special collections in the Bodleian and college libraries.
Although it is still relatively new – with a second version coming later this year – it encompasses decades’ worth of photography projects. Many of Oxford’s medieval manuscripts are represented in some form, but only a portion of these have a full set of high-resolution images such as the Bodleian studio can now produce. This sometimes means that you can find multiple versions of the same manuscript. For instance, the Bodleian’s famous Romance of Alexander, MS. Historical images of manuscripts can be useful to researchers trying to determine what an item looked like in the past or aiming to understand the history of its interpretation.
Between the late 1970s and early 2000s, the Bodleian published manuscript photographs on film. The library eventually produced over 20,000 slides. June | 2014 | Manuscript Road Trip. The Flight into Egypt, Walters Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112r If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time, you’ll have figured out that for me, the journeys undertaken by medieval manuscripts from their European origins to their American repositories, and the hands they passed through on the way, are of particular interest. This week, I’ve got a Louisiana histoire d’amour for you. Eustace Surget (1830-1882) was the third of six children of Francis Surget, his family one branch of a large and wealthy southern family of land- and estate-holders. His grandfather, Pierre, had immigrated to Natchez, Mississippi in the 1780s holding a Spanish land grant. In August 1864, while a Lieutenant Colonel in the Confederate Army, Eustace married Clara H.
Distraught, Clara responded with an appeal to the laws of chivalry, begging him not to abandon her to shame and disgrace. You may wonder what any of this has to do with medieval manuscripts. Hymnal, Feast of Mary Magdalene, Italy, s. The Cathach of Colum Cille: The story of an ancient Irish manuscript. The late medieval lordship controlled by the O’Donnells of Tír Conaill in north-west Ireland reached the height of its power in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. By that time, their area of overlordship extended southwards into north Connacht (Sligo, Roscommon & Mayo), and eastwards to parts of Tyrone and east Ulster, but the heartland was in Donegal.
The medieval O’Donnell inauguration site was close to Kilmacrenan, to the north of the modern town of Letterkenny. Nineteenth-century antiquarians such as John O’Donovan considered the rock at Carraig an Dúin (Doon rock), near Kilmacrenan, as the most likely location of the earlier inauguration site. O’Donovan believed that the inauguration stone housed in Kilmacrenan church until the late 1820s had originally stood on Doon rock (OS letters, Donegal, ed. In 1258 Domnall Óg O’Donnell opted for a new place of inauguration at Raphoe, further south.
Mynors booklet accessibility. A codicological analysis of two Academy manuscripts. One of the most beautiful treasures in the RIA Library is MS 12 R 31, a highly illuminated medieval Book of Hours, for Sarum Use, produced in Rouen in the mid-15th century. The book features twenty-eight miniatures most of which were produced by the ‘Hoo Master’ with the exception of St Hildevert which was executed by the ‘Talbot Master’. In contrast, MS 12 R 35 is a late 14th century or early 15th century Augustinian missal of Italian provenance with considerably less decoration but with several brightly illustrated initial letters, pen-flourishing and rubrication throughout. These two medieval texts provide an opportunity for codicological analysis and comparison. Codicology is a holistic approach to the study of books and manuscripts and is concerned with describing the book as a physical object or artefact, considering attributes like binding, format, decoration, and illustration.
RIA MS 12 R 31, f.40. St Christopher. RIA MS 12 R 35, December Calendar. Binding RIA MS 12 R 31, binding. Scripts | Exploring the Medieval Manuscript Book. Medieval History of Art | MEMS Lib. Edited by Róisín Astell, with contributions from Dr Ada Hajdu (New Europe College - Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest), Emeric Rigault (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès - Université de Poitiers), Dr Beate Fricke (University of Bern), and Celia Mills (MEMS, University of Kent). To Help Get Started Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture - a concise glossary of various terms pertaining to medieval art and architecture. Holcomb, Melanie, (ed.) Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009) Available online. Norris, Michael, Medieval Art: A Resource for Educators (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005) Stein, Wendy A., How to Read Medieval Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016) Open Access Books & Journals Art History Journal Spreadsheet – this incredible database created by Dr Beate Fricke (University of Bern) details journals which are currently open access.
Images & Photos Illuminated Manuscripts Stained Glass Online books: Architecture and Sculpture Online Books: Medieval monastic book inventories. What these book lists show is a diverse and exciting picture of textual culture present in different times and places during the Middle Ages. The inventory from St. Gall also clearly shows traces of cross-regional networking between medieval monasteries. Unlike modern examples, the two book lists were not intended to serve as actual searching tools like a modern day catalogue. Rather, they were inventories of the works found in the library, showing an emphasis on the content of the manuscripts and the number of volumes. In the St. Gall list we see a systematic approach to make an inventory, whereas the Lambach list appears to have been drafted according to which books the scribe encountered first. Against the background of these two examples of medieval book lists, one must always remember that there were, of course, very many theological and religious manuscripts in all monasteries.
Elaine Terharne. Medieval literature and manuscript specialist Elaine Treharne held a tattered and burnt lampshade in her hands. The lampshade—made from the pages of a 12th-century manuscript—was a grim reminder of the destructive repurposing that threatens the existence of the books she has dedicated her career to studying. Treharne’s new book, Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book (Oxford University Press, 2021), examines medieval manuscripts and how they are examples of a skilled and valuable craft. Many medieval manuscripts have covers, pages, and decorated bindings that are so visually stunning they are often dismantled and sold in parts, explained Treharne, the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor in the Department of English in the School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S).
“Sometimes the only evidence for a person’s existence is the note they made while reading, or the care and craft that went into a book’s production. A whole piece Handwritten and handmade Object in the world. The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscript Club - the long awaited new book by Christopher de Hamel - has just been published. This volume focusses on twelve men and women, from the 11th century to the 20th, all deeply immersed in different aspects of the wo. Colours | Teaching Manuscripts. Modeling book and species extinctions. Medieval Text Manuscripts : Medieval Text Manuscripts. Plants and Gardens Portrayed: Rare and Illustrated Books from The LuEsther T. Manuscript Studies: Finding Manuscripts | MEMSLib. Medieval manuscripts blog: Decoration.
Medieval and Renaissance Women: remember their names. Video Series: Exploring the Medieval Manuscript Book | Europeana. Medieval Unicode Font Initiative :: Browse by code chart: PUA-1. How Many Flaps DOES it Take to Get to the Center of a Flap Print?! Suzanne Noruschat lent helping hands @USCSpeCol during my visit in October. This intense alchemical anatomical construct made us wonder all sorts of things! #Flaptastic #FlapFriday #asmr. Crumbling Manuscripts. Early Kurrent Emperor I. - Public Transkribus AI Model. 23.10.17 Hamburger et al. (eds.), The Diagram as Paradigm | The Medieval Review.
The Secrets of Manuscript Digitization. Digital Medieval Studies—Practice and Preservation - Arc Humanities Press. Key Milestones and Approaching our Project Goal: A Mid-term Review on The Polonsky Foundation Digitisation Project. A Database for Three Dioscoridean Illustrated Herbals.