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Canine conversations, fol. 16r, Ms. Codex 1057 (Ferial psalter).Manuscript description and digital i

Noah’s Wife is famous in medieval Christian lore for being so stubborn that she refuses to get in th

From fol. 75r of Ms. Codex 738, a Flemish Hours of the Virgin, here is Christ holding the Holy Hand

So long as you’re a hybrid monstrosity who is a third man, a third dragon, and a third climbing vine

Among the sermons and commentaries of Ms. Codex 716, Mary and the baby Jesus on fol. 1r are having a

What are these things? I really don’t know. I was doing my annual tidy-up-the-computer, poking

we-are-knight:lionofchaeronea:A knight, armed with the Christian virtues and bearing a shield emblaz

Ms. Codex 1566 -  [Book of hours: use of Metz]This beautiful book of hours, use of Metz, featur

Illuminated initial A, with some great wedge shapes and gold. Of course, gold. Can’t forget th

Hellmouth on fol. 127r, Ms. Codex 738, Flemish hours of the Virgin Mary, with calendar of Utrec

ebookfriendly:Codex Rotundus is a unique miniature circular book from 1480 bit.ly/2reQ1gW

Dog shooting rooster. (Rooster feeling an unaccountable premonition of doom.)Manuscript description

Not Vikings, perhaps, but hopefully the hammer of the gods will also drive this ship to new lands. T

The dog is me, the dog is you.Manuscript description and digital images can be found here at OPenn.F

LJS 24 is a medical miscellany and many of the initials, as we’ve posted before, feature Domin

LJS 19 Carta executoria de hidalguia a pedimiento. Written in Granada, signed 16 June 1543.Cart

jothelibrarian: Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is the Black Hours, one of a very few man

mediumaevum: A Middle English poem written in southeast Ireland (probably Waterford) about 1330. A u

A cat looks at a dangling descender on fol. 18v of Ms. Codex 724 as only a cat can. Check out this p

This week, we are getting to know LJS 21 (2v, 3r), though prepare for a morbid post today.From previ

LJS 33 Spanish Forger illumination.Illuminated chess scene painted on a parchment leaf scraped of it

This week, we’ll be looking at inhabited, illuminated, decorated, and historiated initials in

Triumph of Love, Fame and Death; Iluminations from “Rhymes and Triumphs of Petrarch” Flo

Well-loved miniature of the Crucifixion in @freelibraryrarebooks Lewis E 98, Book of Hours, Use if P

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