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Medieval petting zoo


Lyon, BM, 5128
Gratian, Decretum
(1350-1360)

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2018-10-31

Possibly my new favourite manuscript! Add MS 24189 (c.1410, Bohemia), a text-free series of full-page miniatures depicting scenes from the Book of John Mandeville. The work is grisaille, with colour really effectively applied for dramatic effect.

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2018-10-16

Сотворение Евы из ребра.
Speculum humanae salvationis 1420
Так себе Евушка получилась, Адам уже горюет

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2018-08-01


Oh to be an astronomer in mid 13th-century Toledo!

(Libros del saber de astronomía, transl into Castilian from Aramaic and Arabic made by various scholars including Jews, Muslims, and Christians)

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2018-07-27

ATTENTION, AND LATE 14TH-CENTURY DPNS! The "knitting Madonna" of the Buxtehude Altar. Via .

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2018-07-19

Cometí un montón de errores xdddd
Pero igual ya voy entendiendo más, de como funcionan las luces y sombras en ambientes.

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2018-06-18

David VS Goliath: one of the most iconic & dramatic episodes in the Old Testament in the amazing vignettes decorating the glossed Psalter of Odbert abbot of Saint-Bertin (986 - c. 1007).
I don't think there are many early examples, what do you say

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2018-05-01

More premodern Japanese women: Much like alewives in Europe, in medieval Japan, women were among sake brewers 🍶(seen in literature & art). They, too, would gradually be edged out in the early modern period by male counterparts.

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2018-03-09

Page o' veg

Manfredus de Monte Imperiali, Liber de herbis et plantis
BNF MS Lat. 6823 🥒

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2018-01-24

In this strange but wonderful herbal, plants tower over ruined castles.

Livre des simples médecines, or l'Herboriste
BNF MS Francais 9136 (15thc)

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2018-01-02

Last chance: Arthur and Welsh Mythology | Arthur a Chwedloniaeth Cymru closes in Aberystwyth this Saturday. Or browse medieval manuscripts online: https://t.co/MB5lqiOEEp

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2017-12-13

The medieval camel: a very short exhibition (part 3)

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2017-11-12

Subterranean mandrake blues

Liber medicinae ex animalibus, Netherlands or England ca. 1175 Harley 1585

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2017-09-24

14th & 15thC images of leprosy
from
Will be discussing in class

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2017-09-06