#manuscript hands

[gummi-stims]

Moving medieval manuscript art!

[talos-stims]

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[cuties-in-codices]

music theory diagrams (& a guidonian hand)

from a composite manuscript containing various works on music theory (by guido of arezzo, hermann of reichenau, theogerus of metz, and others). southern germany, late 12th c.

source: Kassel, LMB, 4° Ms. math. 1

[inwpaintress]

Not quite finished, but I fit all the words in.

[quacheta]

Little Kid With A Big Death Wish changed my brain, so I typeset it. And then @remedyturtles indicated they're okay with me sharing it. So there's also a link to the Google Drive files if anyone wants it:

Note: There are FOUR versions in the folder. This is because (due to the way I designed the pages, mostly; I wanted it to be pretty, okay? I wanted it to be thematic) the full book is almost 900 pages long. So if you want it as an electronic file to read, or if you are actually ambitious enough to bind a 900-page 5x8 book, you want the 'Deathwish Full' files. Otherwise, if you are sane, I broke it up into three 300-page-ish sections, which are Part 01, Part 02, and Part 03.

Regular .pdf files are the individual pages in order. These are the files you want if you (a) are downloading this to read electronically, or (b) intend to pass the file through your own imposition software. (Like if you want to print on paper that isn't letter-sized, for example.)

Bookbinder folders have the imposed PDFs. Meaning: the files you want if you're going to print and bind this thing. Within those folders, the 'typeset' files are aggregate (the whole book, with ALL the signatures, are in the one single PDF). Signature folders have (you guessed it!) individual signatures. These are good for test prints (four pieces of paper is a cheaper test print than, you know, 70-something), or just making sure your printer doesn't run out of juice as you go.

All of the book is in color. But it's also all (mostly all) blues and greys, and I did a test print on my blank and white printer at home. So if you don't have access to a color printer (or the money), I promise it still looks nice in black and white. :)

A second note, on margins and bleed: the artwork does extend into the bleed (or at least, it's supposed to). Please keep that in mind when choosing a printer and your print settings. Please also do a test print. Please please please.

[ellynneversweet]

Oh so I thought of this while plotting (loose term) a small and silly fic in which Sabriel, well into her second trimester with Ellimere but too busy and relatively symptomless to notice she’s actually, y’know, pregnant, is finally pushed gently but firmly into a chair by the house sendings and handed the book they left on her bedside table, the study desk, in her backpack, etc, with signs indicating that she has to read it. Right now.

Said book is an Abhorsen’s guide to pregnancy and child development in wee necromancers, written waaaaay back when by someone, probably Belatiel’s daughter or granddaughter and subsequently heavily revised and argued over, and it included a lot of helpful tips including how to ward the crib of a baby against a baby rolling over into Death by instinct (I maintain this is what Sabriel did as a newborn, which is why she came back normal, and also, that her many-times great grandmother would have sighed and gone ‘well yes, babies want to be with their mother’) and, as she’s reading, she goes…oh I remember these wards, kinda. Dad used to cast them when we were travelling. There’s a further spell to ward a body and tie a spirit to a body, in the event that you have to take a baby with a death sense somewhere not warded, and, particularly, if that somewhere is somewhere where it’s very easy to cross into Death, like, say, a place where many people have recently died or there are broken Charter Stones. This spell includes a variation or note that it can be cast if a spirit has already started to go into Death and needs to be stopped in order to retrieve it (in the same way one might corner a VERY FAST toddler by a closed door) which Sabriel sits and squints at for a long time, because that sounds like a plausible answer for why Touchstone was Like That when she found him.

At this point the librarian sending buries its hood in its spellflesh hands, comes over and turns the pages back to ‘a spell for diagnosing pregnancy’ and points at it.

(Addenda: the whole above ground section of the Abhorsen’s house is, by default, childproofed in this way and probably several other ways. Bel’s daughter or granddaughter and her very small children were living there for this very reason when Hillfair burned, so they all survived. She’s the Queen Victoria character of the Abhorsen line.)

[musicandotherstuff]

Original manuscript of the track The Jeweller's Hands (2008/2009)

"so many great songs have been written here and this is a really great one @ arcticmonkeys the jeweler's hands.i still have a lot of handwritten original lyrics from any band that is cool enough to leave them here for me. i love hearing the @ bechstein.official piano on this track, and all others it appears on. it's my favorite piano sound in the world. fred and i bought it at @ shop_angelview thrift store after @ vicwillums found it and suggested we buy it to record it on her album she was readying to record here, musings of a creek dipper. our friend, the extremely talented and awesome @ trinashoemaker produced and engineered it.. i couldn't be happier that many find this little house in the desert inspiring. i know i have since the first day i walked through the door. love to all"

📸: ranchodelalunastudio

[deer-soap]

faustine, begging at the feet of her mother, the augur

(Text description underneath the read more!)

FAUSTINE:

Let me be your truest daughter, mother,

What shall I have to do in order to become the most beloved of

The Witch of the Point, the Woman-Who-Sees?

[lackadaisycal-art]

What's your literature hot take?

Mine is that head-hopping is not inherently sloppy or lazy, and that the modern expectation to always have every chapter (or whole book) from one specific character's POV limits the potential for certain kinds of comedy, suspense and other narrative nuances

[sister-lucille]

Just finished this page! I'm very proud of it, I'm very happy with how the lettering and the gold turned out :)

[celebenarinya]

SILMARILLION: BUT IT'S A MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT

MAEGLIN AND IDRIL

I put him in light blue (best guess at Gondolin colors) because I figured if he wore black all the time, people would realize something was up.

A friend said Maeglin be like: "If I ignore her studiously enough nothing will look suspicious." I think the tiny bit of delicate foot peeking out under her dress is driving him insane.

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Meanwhile, Turgon somehow doesn't notice the shadow over his nephew's eyes.

[autumnrory]

"Hands Clean", Alanis Morissette / "Don't Even Try It", Jai-da / "Dear John", Taylor Swift / "Motion Sickness", Phoebe Bridgers / "Happier Than Ever", Billie Eilish / "29", Demi Lovato / "Your Age", Rina Sawayama / "Would've Could've Should've", Taylor Swift / "vampire", Olivia Rodrigo / "logical", Olivia Rodrigo / "The Manuscript", Taylor Swift

[cuties-in-codices]

the 12 months and their corresponding peasant work (+ close-up of december)

in an encyclopedic miscellany ("liber calculationis"), salzburg, c. 818 AD

source: Munich, BSB, Clm 210, fol. 91v

[heartnosekid]

yalemedhistlib on ig

[kiivg]

.i got anothe notebook 📔.

[othmeralia]

This is an amazing German manuscript from circa 1671. It's called Kunst Buch von allerhandt rahren undt schönen inventionen so wohl in der Feuerwerckerey Kunst als auch in der Büchsenmeisterey zusammen and was written by Andreas Räbel, a pyrotechnician.

An original work of a 17th century pyrotechnician, with the formulas he used to make fireworks. This is a manual how to make and use them, in which the author betrays secret recipes for the construction of rockets, flares, bombs. Ingredients are specified: camper, antimony, coal, tin, orpiment, chalk, tree oil, mercury, line oil, brandy, ammonium, arcanuni, chlroide, resin, and a host of other untranslatable elements. The fireworks that Räbel describes come in all forms and shapes. Descriptions follow for the construction of rocket posts, launchers, and fixtures to be mounted on buildings, small castles, and castles. Shown in finely colored pen drawings, labeled with reference numbers and letters and provided with a scale. Detonators are describes, small bombs, smoke-balls, balls of light, fireballs, storm-balls, big guns, fireworks and hundreds of other instructions. He also narrates the memorable wedding of Emperor Leopold von Habsburg with Margarita Theresa of Spain on December 12, 1666.