Medieval Latin

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eadfrith:Saint Bede - The Venerable Bede - 672/3 - 25th May 735 Arguably the greatest Anglo-Saxon sc

butt peckerApocalypse, Normandy ca. 1330BnF, Latin 14410, p. 73

sweeping the lettersbook of hours (Hours of Marguerite d'Orléans), Rennes ca. 1430.BnF, Latin 1156B,

thoodleoo:shoutout to our friends over in medieval studies. we may not always agree about latin, but

LJS16, Puzzle initial from Speculum historiale, Books 25-28, f. 45r. A volume, probably the third fr

dragonslayerLes Grandes Heures du duc de Berry, Paris 1409BnF, Latin 919, fol. 16r

thoodleoo:this is possibly one of my favorite pieces of medieval art for a variety of reasons, inclu

full cauldronsSpeculum humane salvationis, Alsace(?) ca. 1400BnF, Latin 9585, fol. 46v

In this book of hours from the mid to late 1400s, an elegantly illuminated initial letter P contains

lamentationRohan Hours, Angers ca. 1430-1435BnF, Latin 9471, fol. 135r

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Latin 919 detail of f.9r. Horae ad usu

discardingimages:monkey knight Les Grandes Heures du duc de Berry, Paris 1409BnF, Latin 919, fol. 11

medieval: Latin Gospel. Written and illuminated in Ireland by Macregol, probably identifiable as t

Pegasus constellationSufi Latinus (Latin translation of ‘Kitāb al-kawākib al-thābita’ of ‘Abd al-Rah

veterum-regum:King Arthur from the Chetham Flores Historiarum; one of two Latin medieval chronicles

donut eater Les Grandes Heures du duc de Berry, Paris 1409.BnF, Latin 919, fol. 109r

Initial D showing armored infantry in a castle, from the Latin Vulgate translation of Psalms 67:6.  

mandragoraTacuinum sanitatis, Rhineland 15th centuryBnF, Latin 9333, fol. 37r

eadfrith:The Beatus page from the Ramsey Psalter folio 4rBeatus being latin for Blessed, dated to ab

This is a page from a mid-13th century Latin Bible written in a Gothic script and presumably from En

medieval:Latin Gospel. Written and illuminated in Ireland by Macregol, probably identifiable as the

snowball fightTacuinum Sanitatis, Milan or Pavia ca. 1390-1400BnF, Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673,

tetramorph Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla litteralis in Biblia, Paris 14th centuryBnF, Latin 461 fol. 13

In the Beginning was the Word –A late-eighth-century or early-ninth-century Latin Gospel, pain

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