#medieval handwriting

[toeffelphi]

codex manesse but make it fantasy fairy tale.

[die-rosastrasse]

Some of my medieval-inspired calligraphy with Florence & The Machine songs ✒️

[shredsandpatches]

Sometimes you think your days of encountering English royal family trees explaining the wars of the roses while working are behind you, and then you encounter one in a collection of avvisi (basically, Italian diplomatic manuscript newsletters) from 1597 London. The main point here seems to be hashing out where all the various Catholic (and other) claims on the throne come from, for the continental reader who hasn't seen Shakespeare's histories yet, because they just came out. (Most of them; Henry V hasn't been written yet)

Here's a closeup of the tree. Considering my obsessions of more recent standing, this also shed a lot of light on how you get a name like Arrigo. (A perfectly good name, of course, I just didn't realize what it was cognate with!)

I like how it has the little clearly labeled roses on the lines of descent, too, very considerate. And James VI/not-yet-I listed as "pretendente 3" (I'm not sure that has the same connotations in Italian though; in English it would definitely connote a false claim but I think romance-language cognates allow for more ambiguity)

[galejro]

Might as well post the whole thing, Book of Nod 2012-2014 reproduction. I never went any further than “Coming of Lilith”. Polish Language.

[blackletterslut]

[a-study-in-dante]

November 6th, 2022 | Rainy sundays are for side projects. And listening to Elvis, according to Spotify on shuffle.

[muspeccoll]

Wordy Wednesday

Gloss: An annotation in the margins of a book intended to explain or clarify the main text. Sometimes glosses are also “interlinear,” i.e., written between the lines. Medieval scholars were particularly fond of glosses and it is not uncommon for a page to be more gloss than text in a medieval or early modern book. In these less heavily glossed times, readers must make do with footnotes or endnotes.

(via Facsimile — Gloss · Rare Books: A Glossary · Special Collections and Archives)

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

Terminal Deangirlism, Cas-coded handwriting

EDIT: just remembered that since the first standardized form of the Old English language (mostly for writing purposes, at the time), the format these ~10th-11th c. monks used and thus the one I use, was developed at Winchester Monastery and called "Winchester Standard"

so I taught myself to write in Winchester.

Twice.

[archaeopteryx4216]

I'm practicing a new alphabet!

[mikurulucky]

So, the movie version of Magic Flute had a point where Johan sent Earl Flatbroke (or Lord Mumford in the UK dub) a letter posing as a letter sent by Oilycreep. Flatbroke apparently couldn't read it and his advisor had to read it to him. In the comics though, he could read it just fine.

My thought is Flatbroke CAN read his native tongue, he just couldn't read Johan's forged handwriting because Johan's handwriting is real intricate and fancy looking to begin with and Oilycreep's handwriting is even MORESO and far less legible in comparison, so he wouldn't be able to read either of their handwriting. Both their handwriting styles would definitely be illegible to us modern folk, I mean, have you SEEN medieval writing?

[gwenlen-studies]

15.07.2022

Dernières lectures à la bibliothèque avant sa fermeture: les numéros les plus récents de la Revue de l'Art, le catalogue d'une exposition qui se tient en ce moment à Moulins mais que je n'ai pas le temps d'aller voir, et une publication sur l'architecture de l'hôtel de Cluny du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Et sinon, nouvelle mind-map sur l'art ottonien; j'ai un peu perdu la main mais elle me semble claire.

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Last-minute reads before the library closes for the holidays: last issues of La Revue de l'Art, a publication specialized in art history; the catalogue of an exhibition currently happening in Moulins, but I don't have the time to go there and actually visit it, so the catalogue will do, I hope; and a book about the architecture of the Hotel de Cluny, where the museum is currently located. I also made a mind-map about Ottonian art; I'm not as used to draw mind-maps as I was, but this one seems clear enough to me.

[shadowsceptereda]

Once again back on my Buzzfeed Unsolved bullshit, and the whole case with the Watcher? Mephiles would do shit like that. JGDFJNGDF

[ddsmithstudio]

Hello Tumblr! I wanted to have another cozy space to share my art with new people so this is the beginning for me. I recently had my first ever solo art exhibition and these are the pieces I created for it! I'll be making separate posts with more detailed shots of each piece as well.

I make traditional art using a dip pen, India ink, and watercolors. I am primarily interested in cartography but I love to do ink illustrations and practice calligraphy as well. I hope you enjoy!

"Duggard Reel" 12" x 36"

"The University of Alabama" 24" x 32"

"USS Tuscaloosa in Profile" 10" x 20"

"Cryptids of the Southeast!" 16" x 20"

"Tuscaloosa & Northport, Downtowns of" 18" x 18"

"Battle of Mobile Bay" 16" x 20"

"Birthplace of the Delta Blues" 21" x 27"

[helenasrealm]

Reading old medieval Latin manuscripts is so difficult, but also so cool. And when you finally understand their handwriting and understand the words... Omg there is no better feeling!

[gailyinthedark]

Today we found my husband's old copy of Gawain and the Green Knight from his university days. It has terrible, terrible 1980's cover art, coffee stains, and little notes in the margins that say things like Guinevere toughs it out or Arthur is painted as a foolish cuckold in my husband's handwriting but the handwriting is younger, it's familiar but not fully developed the way I know it. He's written his name inside the cover in faux medieval script. I didn't know it was possible to crush on the person your spouse was before you ever met them.