Greatly honoured. For your readers, "Medieval Cats" was republished last year as "Cats in Medieval Manuscripts". Same feline content! (and Joan of Navarre had a pet parrot in her confinement....)

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Thus far 170 new manuscripts pushed online with

So many texts and images to discover:
https://t.co/AnTY0bZvmz

8th-16th century, w/ a connection to German speaking lands (origin/provenance/language).

Challenge: can you find and ID these?

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Lacking the technical knowledge of the chromoxylography process which made her illustrations gaudy, Kate Greenaway–born 1846–visited to study masters eg Jan van Eyck, whose Arnolfini portrait she especially liked, & illuminated manuscripts .

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Art for a future chapter of Music and Manuscripts. Patreons can view the art now at https://t.co/ECW2HmUmIx. Otherwise, it will be a published in the next couple of weeks.

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“By combining clues from artwork [by Piero della Francesca, Rafael, and others], ancient manuscripts, and oral histories, she was able to identify hundreds of Renaissance-era fruits. She now grows many of them in a 20-acre farmstead as an outdoor museum of Italy’s past”

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Late night manuscripts from a guy who can barely grip a brush. ✈️

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Cats in medieval manuscripts are funny.

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These two are my favorite manuscripts recently. I like to draw muscles.

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The Ripley Scrolls (23 known copies) illustrate THE COMPOUND OF ALCHYMY by George Ripley(1415–1490) said to reveal how to make the legendary Philosopher’s Stone, the ingestion of which can confer (This copy: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

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Cats did take over though and were often used to decorate the margins of illuminated manuscripts. The art is..... interesting though

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A 17thc apothecary shop. It's well known we were once the Barber Surgeons but we were also the Incorporation of Surgeon Apothecaries. Find out more about this - sometimes stormy - relationship in our digitised manuscript collections https://t.co/nRFFrujz7z?

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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

It is considered the oldest extant Japanese prose narrative although the oldest manuscript dates to 1592.

Taketori no Okina takes Kaguya-hime to his home, Drawn by Tosa Hiromichi, c. 1600 art

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A formidable entry for This is a wonderful manuscript for expressive faces, particularly eyes!

British Library, Royal MS 10 E IV
c 1300-c 1340, The Decretals of Gregory IX

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"Approach & Entry Into Dis," Italian manuscript, 1355.

"Tell him to go away. Just get out there and tell him we're not voting for fucking Bloomberg."

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Taiga is my favorite character
so…I colored the manuscript that in the journal. I want to see his smile,谢谢你们创作的一切,Thank you😆

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This year we've divided our fair list into four sections, the first consists of Japanese manuscripts and scrolls, link below:

https://t.co/X6nqWSTOSR

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