#manuscript illumination

[penguinhunterd]

At least they look *mostly* like elephants.

Let's be a medieval manuscript with mama

[cy-lindric]

An angel. Alchemy treaty Aurora Consurgens, 1420-1450

[lionofchaeronea]

A Viking war-band attacks the French town of Guérande. Illustration from a manuscript of the Life of St. Aubin d'Angers, executed ca. 1100. Now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

[cuties-in-codices]

medieval stores (& personified virtues)

from a copy of the encyclopedic "trésor" by brunetto latini, illuminated by the "master of the geneva latini", rouen, c. 1450-80

source: Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160, fol. 82r

[u-mspcoll]

Upcoming Exhibit and Lecture: Illustrating the Renaissance Book: From Illumination to Woodcut

Valerius Maximus (1st c. AD). Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX. Italy. 15th c. Parchment,126 fols. Fol. 5r

Full-page illumination from Carta Executoria de hidalguia de sangre a pedimento de Don Juan de Mansilla como curador de Doña Francisca de Mansilla, hija de Baltasar de Mansilla, vecinos de la villa de Aranda de Duero. Valladolid, 1636 Parchment, 93 fols. Fol. 2r

Full-page woodcut depicting the procession of Priapus, the Greek god of animal and vegetable fertility. Hypnerotomachie, ou Discours du songe de Poliphile Ed: Jean Martin Paris: Jean le Blanc for Jacques Kerver, 1561 Fol. 69r. Loan courtesy of William P. Heidrich

Come explore a selection of manuscripts and early printed books from the 15th to the 17th centuries that were illustrated with illuminations and woodcuts! The display will be up in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room from 6 September to 14 December.

And join us on Wednesday 13 September at 4p in the Hatcher Gallery event space or on zoom a for lecture based on the exhibit.

We hope to see you there!

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Limbourg Brothers, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry: fol. 8v, August (Falconry with the Château d'Étampes in the background), ca. 1412-1416, watercolor and pigment on vellum (Musée Conde, Chantilly)

[thebeautifulbook]

Illuminated Leaf from a Dogale (Venice, 1560) Illumination by Master T.o Ve

‘A dogale (pl. dogali) is a document issued by a doge, the title for the highest elected official in several Italian republics. The Doge of Venice was one of the most powerful among them. Dogali were used to transfer power to certain individuals, granting them various rights, responsibilities, and privileges. Although secular documents, the iconography of illuminated dogali was usually religious in nature to suggest the approval of divine authority. In this miniature, the recipient kneels before the Virgin and Child. Behind him are two saints who appear to be St. John the Evangelist and St. Francis of Assisi, providing possible clues to the recipient's Christian name.’

This illumination was executed in the workshop of a Venetian illuminator active from the 1520s to the 1570s.’

Held by the Free Library of Philadelphia.

source

[pangur-and-grim]

also I got a tattoo partially re-coloured today and they bandaged me in veterinary wrap like I'm a sick horse

[eethok]

turns out there is nothing stopping you from making a pngtuber so you can rp working in a scriptorium

[lionofchaeronea]

King Arthur. Illustration by an unknown artist from a 15th century Welsh manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (Historia Regum Britanniae). Now in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Photo credit: National Library of Wales.

[marmota-b]

This is one of those moments of "wait, other people don't automatically see what a word means based on other words?!"

Hey tumblr we need to have a talk about something I noticed.

Specifically going by tags attached to images I’ve blogged or reblogged, there seems to be a misconception that marginalia means “any quirky medieval art”.

It’s not.

Marginalia is anything in the margins of a text.

The ones that will get posted on tumblr will more often than not be quirky drawings, but they also include notes, annotations, scribbles, and whatever else. The quirky drawings just happen to get a lot of press on here because, well. They’re quirky drawings.

For instance, see this image here of a platanista (river dolphin) chomping down on an elephant’s trunk?

This is not marginalia! This is a full-fledged illustration. It’s within the text (Liber natura rerum, Thomas de Cantimpré, Librairie de Valenciennes Ms 0320). It illustrates the entry on Platanista.

This is what it looks like in context.

But you know what are marginalia? Let me circle them for convenience.

Know the difference. It won’t save your life but it will make you more popular at a medievalist conference.

[cuties-in-codices]

the boiling of the king

in a copy of the alchemical treatise "splendor solis", germany, c. 1577

source: Paris, BnF, ms. allemand 113, fol. 23v

[fox-teeth]

Preview of Basilisk, my personal favorite of my risograph comics, and the project all my other recent medieval-inspired art descends from.

Styled after medieval illuminated manuscripts and printed using a custom color palette requiring 5 risograph inks (including metallic gold), Basilisk asks the question: what would drive a teenage girl to create a monster?

Physical copies available here (also digital here). To brag for a moment--this is my masterwork of riso printing and is even more impressive in person.

[thinginthedirt]

i had the idea for this last tdov but it didnt come together until now 🥖🍷 though i'm not religious, this quote is beloved to me

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Unknown Mughal Artist, Hamzanama: Baba Junayd is Rude to Umar and Turns Him Away from the Caravanserai, ca. 1570, watercolor on cotton rag paper (Smithsonian: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

[marmota-b]

I thought it was a children's book. This needs to be a children's book.

I LOVE MEDIEVAL ANIMALS - a zine for people who love Medieval animal art by HanaBerggren