SJLahey, 9 days ago to Law

#TFW you’re overcome by the sheer horror of c.16 of the 1st Statute of Westminster (3 Edw 1) 😳. #MedievalManuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Law
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SJLahey, 10 days ago to rainbow

A stripy, #rainbow ‘S’ from Cambridge University Library. 🌈 #MedievalManuscripts
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SJLahey, 14 days ago to bookhistodons

A golden initial like a tiny #sun in one of Cambridge University Library’s medieval English statute books. 🌞 #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw
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SJLahey, 20 days ago to Women

Lovely portrait of a woman tucked away in a Statuta Angliæ manuscript from Cambridge University Library. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Women #Art
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SJLahey, 21 days ago to bookhistodons

Biblically-accurate #manicule? #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts 👀
@bookhistodons @histodons

AmazingMeagen, 2 months ago to bookhistodons

The season of hosted classes started at #LambethPalaceLibrary this week.

#MedievalManuscripts & Documents for #University_College_London

#Archives
#MiseEnPage
#Colophon

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@histodons
@bookhistodons

SJLahey, 5 months ago to Law

Today I’m in the Parker Library (Corpus Christi Cambridge) working on, among other #MedievalManuscripts, this wee #LawBook. Like many tiny common #law #manuscripts it’s small but fancy (making it ‘a Rolex’ vs ‘a Ferrari’ 😉).
“Wait. What? …” 🤔
1/2
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Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 102 recto in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, manuscript 482. The photo is taken from the bottom of the leaf, angling slightly up the page. Visible are roughly 24 lines of Latin copied in brown ink in a clear, even hand. The 7th line up from the bottom is copied in a conspicuously larger hand. Following it are 6-lines of text with the first 5 lines indented to accommodate an enlarged decorative initial ‘A’. Rendered in gleaming gold leaf, the initial sits atop a ground painted in cobalt blue and rose, elegantly ornamented with a geometric pattern of delicate white strokes.

SJLahey, 5 months ago to bookhistodons

Today I’m back ‘home’ in Cambridge University Library—where mythical hazards lurk in the #MedievalManuscripts! 😱🐉 #HicSuntDracones #Dragons #BookHistory #RareBooks
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SJLahey, 6 months ago to bookhistodons

I have found my True Love, and it is this miniature, Mohawked, axe-wielding maniac and their, uh… [hound? horse? rabid hedgehog? (whatever it is, I’m here for it)] scribbled by some medieval or early modern kid in a Cambridge University Library legal manuscript. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #doodles #DoodleArt #CHARGE! 🪓🤺

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SJLahey, 7 months ago to bookhistodons

Pay attention! This is the important bit—right here.
#MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Monks #TinyMonk
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SJLahey, 7 months ago to Law

‘S’ is for ‘shiny’ in this Cambridge University Library Statuta Angliæ manuscript. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #HistLaw #LegalHistory #Law
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MARBASPrinceton, 7 months ago to Archaeology

#introduction

This is the account for Manuscript, Rare Book & Archive Studies (MARBAS) at Princeton. We're an initiative dedicated to sharing resources and techniques related to textual artifacts produced before 1600. That's manuscripts, archival documents, early printed books, papyri, inscriptions, the list goes on! We're all about premodern texts and the multitudes of materials that have carried them.

We'll be posting about #MedievalManuscripts, #BookHistory, and #SpecialCollections from a range of geographies and across #Antiquity, #LateAntiquity, and the #Medieval period.

Looking forward to connecting with @antiquidons, @histodons, @medievodons, @bookhistodons, and others!

https://marbas.princeton.edu/

SJLahey, 9 months ago to bookhistodons

#TIH #OTD 11 Sep 1942: Death of Adriano Cappelli (b. 1859), Italian archivist & palaeographer at Parma State Archives, best known for his Lexicon Abbreviaturarum—a dictionary of c.14,000 abbreviations from #MedievalManuscripts.
#palaeography #manuscripts #BookHistory

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SJLahey, 9 months ago to bookhistodons

#TIH #OTD 10 Sep 1482: Death of Federico da Montefeltro (b. 1422 Jun 07), lord of Urbino. He commissioned the construction of a great library, then perhaps the largest in Italy after the Vatican, with his own team of #scribes producing #manuscripts in his personal scriptorium. #BookHistory #MedievalManuscripts
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SJLahey, 9 months ago to bookhistodons

Macro shot #FtW: detail of University of Victoria’s 1201 de Burgh charter. More: https://mastodon.social/@SJLahey/111017679718353578

#Win #Winning #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Charterrific

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SJLahey, 11 months ago to poker

Three of a kind in ‘The Arnstein Bible’ (Germany, Arnstein, Premonstratensian Abbey of St Mary & St Nicholas, c.1172). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Poker #Interlace
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SJLahey, 11 months ago to Germany

Legal #garden in a copy of the Schwabenspiegel (‘Mirror of the Swabians’), a collection of national and feudal laws from Southern #Germany, #Bohemia, and parts of #Switzerland (📷: Fribourg, 1410). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #Law
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grammargirl, 1 year ago to random

This morning I get to refresh my memory on the history of the Lindisfarne Gospels.

I'm trying to resist the urge to go down the rabbit hole of the cult of St. Cuthbert. There's no way that will be relevant to my article.

But, heck, it's Friday, and who am I kidding? Rabbit hole, here I come!

#FridayFun #MedievalManuscripts

ClaireFromClare, 1 year ago to medievodons

#introduction

I'll post about the life, times & legacy of Elizabeth de Burgh, #LadyOfClare, a spirited English noblewoman of the #14thCentury whose legacy includes #ClareCollege & #ClareHall at #CambridgeUniversity. She & her remarkable network of friends were influential patrons of books, music, institutions & all the arts in a #GoldenAge for English craftsmanship.

📷 a detail of the #PienzaCope

#MedievalArt #OpusAnglicanum #MedievalManuscripts #medievodons @medievodons

SJLahey, 22 days ago to Law

‘M’ for the Merry Month of May in a Cambridge University Library statute book. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Law
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SJLahey, 27 days ago to bookhistodons

Are any of you at London Firsts tonight? If so, let’s meet up! (I’m here in the queue…) @bookhistodons #RareBooks #MedievalManuscripts

SJLahey, 16 days ago to neverwinternights

At Girton College, Cambridge, #SaintMargaret ’s #dragon has the sweetest little puppy-dog eyes you ever did see… 🥹 #MedievalManuscripts #Saints #MedievalAnimals #Critters #aww
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SJLahey, 1 month ago to history

#TIH #OTD in #BookHistory 6 May 1236: Death of Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk & 1st of a series of important chroniclers at St Albans. His best-known chronicle, Flores historiarum, survives in 2 #MedievalManuscripts—including the 1 shown in the 📷—& an edition in Matthew Paris’ (c.1200–1259) Chronica majora.
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SJLahey, 1 month ago to bookhistodons

For #InternationalFirefightersDay, selections from the Sankt Florian Psalter—St Florian being the patron saint of #firefighters. (I love the ‘jewelled’ line-fillers in this codex). #MedievalManuscripts
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A medieval manuscript leaf: folio 57 recto in Warsaw, National Library, Rps 8002 III. 2 columns of text in Polish, each of 26 lines, in black ink. Every 2nd or 3rd line opens with a slightly enlarged initial in gold leaf and colours: blue, red, and green. Whenever the text does not reach the end of a line, the empty space has been filled with an (aptly-named) ‘line-filler’, a decorative shape intended to complete the line. Usually line-fillers are formed of simple, abstract, pen-work. The examples on this page are more elaborate. Some are dense blocks of coloured ink, with intricate geometric patterns meticulously picked-out by leaving some areas uncoloured. Others consist of bars of burnished gold leaf adorned with repeating patterns of interlocking geometric windows, each filled-in with translucent pigments in emerald green or rose pink. The gold catches the light, making the golden initials and line-fillers appear to appear to spring up off the page.
Detail from a medieval manuscript leaf: folio 51 verso in Warsaw, National Library, Rps 8002 III. 2 columns of medieval Polish, each with 17 lines of text in black ink. Every second or third line opens with a slightly enlarged decorated initial in gold and colours, mostly blue, red, and green. Whenever the text does not reach the end of a line, the empty space has been completed with a decorative ‘line-filler’. Most line-fillers are fairly simple, created of abstract pen-work, but most of the examples here are truly luxurious: bars of burnished gold leaf adorned with repeating patterns made of tiny, interlocking geometric forms. Each form is filled-in with translucent pigment in rich, vivid hues—deep cobalt blue, ruby red, jade green—and then highlighted with white, to create a 3-dimensional effect. The technique creates the illusion of line-fillers made from enamelled jewels, floating above the parchment.