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‘So in peace our task we ply, Pangur Ban, my cat, and I; in our arts we find our bliss, I have mine and he has his.’ Image, 15th century manuscript with feline autograph.

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Towers crumbling after an earthquake, 1335

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Hare trinity

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dog lady

Alphonso Psalter, London ca. 1284, decorations added in the early 14th century

BL, Add. 24686, fol. 13v

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Corvinafofózás. Mátyás könyvtárának fennmaradt kódexeiből újra készülünk valamire. Mert látni kell!

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Resource: http://manuscriptminiatures.com/4512/7228/

Manuscript:  KB 10 B 21 Rhimebible, Folio 152v (Utrecht, Germany, 1332)

Holding Institution: National Library of the Netherlands

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If you have ever spilled coffee or left a stain on a book you were reading, then you will understand how accidental human interventions leave all sorts of traces in and on books. Medieval people were no different; they too accidentally left stains on their reading material. Historians of the book often see stains as inconveniences at best, and tragedies at worst. The Library of Stains project will examine a variety of stains found on parchment, paper, and bindings from medieval manuscripts, focusing only on “dirty” old books in order to gather scientific data that will provide clues as to how previous generations used and stored their reading material.    The data will provide a new approach for learning about the history of the book, the materiality of books and book conservation.

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Biblia de Borso de Este — Visor — Biblioteca Digital Mundial

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medieval Cheshire Cat

Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu, Savoy ca. 1475

BnF, Rothschild 2973, fol. 19v