#Sarah S.

[uwmspeccoll]

Welcome to Manuscript Monday!

In this series we will periodically focus on selections from our manuscript facsimile collection. Today we present selections from the Morgan Beatus Manuscript, reproduced as A Spanish Apocalypse, The Morgan Beatus Manuscript in New York by George Braziller, Inc. in association with the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1991. The original manuscript, made around 10th century CE at the scriptorium of San Miguel de Escalada in Spain by a monk named Maius, is the earliest surviving illuminated version of the monk Beatus of Liébana's commentary on the biblical Book of Apocalypse (also known as the Book of Revelation).  The text of the Book of Revelation makes up the first part of the manuscript, and Beatus’s commentary comprises the second part. The Book of Revelation tells of the end-times in Christianity, during the final judgement of humanity by God. The story within this Biblical book was also seen by those living during the Latin medieval era as representative of the beginning of something new: God’s celestial kingdom. Due to this view of the book, many artists incorporated imagery from this part of the Bible in their work.

Produced in Al-Andalus, or Muslim-ruled Spain, the artistic style of this work combines both Muslim and Christian visual traditions to create a beautifully illuminated manuscript that supplements the commentary by the monk. This artistic style is known as the Mozarabic, which comes from the Arabic mustaʿrib, meaning ‘Arabicized’. Interestingly, this style of art can only be seen in Christian religious art and architecture from Spain at the time, as non-religious artistic objects made by Christians look so similar to Islamic versions of the same works that they cannot be identified as intentionally Christian. Some key Islamic artistic elements within the manuscript include buildings with horseshoe arches, intricate geometric and vegetal patterns as borders for larger images, and the large, bulging eyes of the illustrated animals.

Another interesting aspect of this specific manuscript is the colophon at the end of the manuscript. It tells readers about the circumstances surrounding the creation of this book, including the maker, the patron, the year it was made, and an explanation about why Maius created the manuscript ("I write this . . . at the command of Abbot Victor, out of love for the book of the vision of John the beloved disciple. As part of its adornment I have painted a series of pictures . . . so that the wise may fear the coming of the future judgement of the world's end."). Colophons in medieval manuscripts are not usually as detailed, so the inclusion of all this information contributes greatly to the knowledge and history surrounding the Morgan Beatus Manuscript.

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– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

[elijahdmgz]

Haven't shared art here in months so have my latest work as a test with my friend Sarah's original characters!!

[paracosmicessence]

bitches be making punnett squares to come up with ideas for more sonadow fankids

[keelifallen]

They are so problematic fr

[iridescentoracle]

i am so obsessed with how like. taken as read the ot3 are at this point. like on the one hand it feels like they've been building up to this for ages but on the other hand it kind of feels like i blinked and we skipped right past some Major Turning Point where everything got spelled out and we're just already in firmly Established Relationship-land. obviously tarvek is too well-protected for anyone to assassinate openly, look how angry his boyfriend and girlfriend are at the idea of anyone threatening him. at this point i'm half-convinced agatha's just going to refer to her boyfriends in passing to someone else and no one's even going to comment on it until van finds out twenty pages later and immediately starts making everyone pay up

[soracities]

Nabil S., "It was all songs: a letter from Gaza" from Nuseirat Refugee Camp & Khan Younis, trans. by his cousin Sarah Aziza and pub. Mizna [ID'd]

[bluartist]

[bebemoon]

look for the name: ARCANGELICA

erté (i.e. romain de tirtoff) sequined gold lamé coat, c. 1930's

alexander mcqueen "angels and demons" sculptural golden heels, c. 2o1o

alexander mcqueen gilt metal pearl-studded headcage, a/w 2o13

kindred black "pure air" perfume oil

alighieri jewelry "the illuminating rise" hoop earrings in 24kt gold plate

[vertigoartgore]

Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor vs the Terminator (the T-800 model). Art by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira).

[raphlecia]

Alphonse Mucha's poster for a Sarah Bernhardt performance of La Dame aux Camélias (1896)

[uwmspeccoll]

Manuscript Monday

This Insular manuscript was created by Irish Catholics, who were well known to be stewards of knowledge and artistic ability during the ‘dark ages’ of the 6th-10th centuries CE. In particular, the Insular style consists of flattened, two-dimensional figures of people and animals accompanied by elaborate ornamentation throughout its pages. We often see interlacing designs and Celtic knots within this ornamentation and the proportions and rendering of the figures and architecture seen throughout the manuscript are not always realistic. For example, in the Book of Kells, produced around 800 CE by Irish monks in Scottish west-coast island of Iona, the columns holding up the arches on canon tables are circular and would lack structural integrity in the real world, for obvious reasons. We can see the flattened, strange rendering of figures on folio 32v (shown below), which is a depiction of Christ Enthroned. Christ’s knee is lifted to hold up the codex in his hand, but the placement of his knee is anatomically incorrect. We also see the flatness of the figure and the inclusion of ornamentation throughout the image, and we can see even more of this decoration on carpet pages throughout the manuscript. The Insular style was not only limited to manuscripts but was also used in metal objects like broaches, chalices, sculpture, and architecture which are also said to have been inspiration for Insular style manuscripts.

Our copy of the facsimile of the Book of Kells was published by the Faksimile Verlag of Luzern, Switzerland in 1990 and includes a separate volume with commentary edited by the noted Trinity College librarian Peter Fox. If you have the urge to see the original Book of Kells, it is shown in the Trinity College Library in Dublin. The library shows two folios of the manuscript at a time and changes the pages shown every twelve weeks.

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– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

[texaschainsawmascara]

“If everything that happens to us lot is ‘God’s will’, then he’s an asshole.” - Darlin’, 2019

Silk - Wolf Alice / The Last Temptation of Christ / Sun Bleached Flies - Ethel Cain / The Fate of My Seven Husbands - Traci Brimhall / stage direction from Antonin Artaud’s The Jet of Blood / The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath / Inbred - Ethel Cain / I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL / Andalusia - Lisa Marie Basile / Gods & Monsters - Lana Del Rey / Jewish concentration camp prisoner / Andrea Gibson / Arsony - Ethel Cain / No Church In The Wild - Jay Z, Kanye West, Frank Ocean / Phaedra’s Love - Sarah Kane / God Am - Alice In Chains / Blasphemies At The 5th Street Station - S. Osburn / Self Injury - Allie Long / Terrible Lie - Nine Inch Nails / Post Traumatic Stress Disorder With Han - Eugenia Leigh / The Civil War - Anne Sexton / God - Tori Amos / Portrait of the Illness as Nightmare - Leila Chatti / Half-Cocked - Ethel Cain

[maybnksdoll]

sarah cameron is the type of girlfriend ♡

1. making matching bracelets or necklaces with each other names is her favourite thing.

2. squishes your tits often.

3. loves to braid your hair and putting ribbons on it, loves to be your personal hair stylist

4. back hugs while sleeping !!

5. makes playlists about you with every song you like or every song that remembers she of you.

6. literally would post EVERY photo he takes of you in her insta stories just to make sure that everyone knows that she has such a beautiful gf.

7. sleep overs probably all weekends (probably ending them with a make out session).

8. her lockscreen is a pic of you that she took when you two had a date on the beach at night, she remembers it like the best night of her life.

9. she knows your favorite flavor of milkshakes/ ice cream, and always buys it for you cuz your shyness.

10. she has thoose pretty collages of polaroids of you two on her room.

11. when you get ready for some party at her house, when she sees you in thoose pretty and short dresses of yours she just need to have a little fingering session.

12. touches your thighs on school just for fun.

13. taking showers together

14. sends you thoose long cute texts telling how much she loves you.

15. her favourite nicks for you are "my girl" "cutie" and "baby"

[amatesura]

The Sprague Classic Readers: Book One (1903)

[onekisstotakewithme]

trapper and hawkeye spending weeks convincing frank that telepathy/telekenesis is real only so they can fake having telepathic sex and annoy the shit out of him

[araekni]

Keith S. Wilson, Heliocentric

Sarah Wiliams, The Old Astronomer

Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night over the Rhône

Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

Matthew Stover, The Revenge of the Sith: Novelisation

Coldplay, Yellow

Ewan McColl, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (with guitar chords)

Neil Gaiman, Stardust

Richard Siken, Snow & Dirty Rain

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Şenay Cüce, sketchbook details

Keith S. Wilson, Heliocentric