Medievalists work to restore damaged 14th century manuscript
A team of medieval scholars are undertaking a project to restore a 14th century manuscript, which was had been badly damaged in the…
Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts on display at The Met
Two important medieval Hebrew manuscripts—a Mishneh Torah made between 1300 and 1400 in Germany and an illuminated leaf from a prayer book made…
Lost medieval bibles found at Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Complete microfilms of two early medieval Spanish Bibles dating from the 9th and 10th century that were damaged or destroyed during the Spanish…
Garima Gospels found to be oldest surviving Christian illustrated manuscripts
Radiocarbon testing has revealed that a pair of illustrated gospels kept in a remote monastery in Ethiopia may have been made as early…
Textus Roffensis: Law, Language and Libraries in Early Medieval England – conference at the University of Kent
A three-day conference on the Textus Roffensis, the priceless 12th century Rochester Cathedral manuscript which was named Britain’s ‘Hidden Treasure’ by the British…
Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500]
Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500] David,…
Books, scribes and sequences in medieval Norway
The study of manuscript fragments is of immense importance in Norway to increase our knowledge of medieval book and scribal culture, as so little material is transmitted in the form of complete codices.
The historic repair and reuse of Byzantine wooden bookboards in the manuscript collection of the monastery of St Catherine, Sinai
The historic repair and reuse of Byzantine wooden bookboards in the manuscript collection of the monastery of St Catherine, Sinai By Andrew Honey…
The uses of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, c. 1066-1200
By focusing on the most common types of use evident in the manuscripts, it explores how readers actually interacted with books. It also treats manuscripts as cultural artefacts through which it is possible to observe the literary and social consequences of the Conquest.
Peering into the Middle Ages – Brock University Symposium on Medieval Documents
Peering into the Middle Ages – The Brock University Symposium on Medieval Documents Brock University in Canada showcased three incredible medieval documents Friday,…
The Old English Charms and King Alfred’s Court
This article argues that one of the most important of the extant Old English charm texts, Bald’s Leechbook, was compiled during the Alfredian Renaissance, and very possibly at the request of Alfred himself.
Drawing as an Art Form in Medieval Manuscripts
Jonathan Alexander presents a talk about the techniques, aesthetics, and role of graphic images—drawings, maps, diagrams, and masterful manuscript decorations—in the creative and intellectual life of the Middle Ages.
BL MS Harley 7333: The “Publication” of Chaucer in the Rural Areas
BL MS Harley 7333: The “Publication” of Chaucer in the Rural Areas Shonk, Timothy A. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 15 (1998) Abstract…
The Virgin Above the Writing in the First Vita of Douce 114
The Virgin Above the Writing in the First Vita of Douce 114 Clouse, Rebecca Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 11 (1994) Abstract Elizabeth…
King David in Germany: Royal Traditions at Prüm
King David in Germany:Royal Traditions at Prüm Marquardt-Cherry, Janet T. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 9 (1992) Abstract Unlike Psalters, Tropers were not…
Scholastic Imagery in The Florence Manuscript
Scholastic Imagery in The Florence Manuscript Catalano, George Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 7 (1990) Abstract The Florence manuscript was produced in Paris…
The Commemoration of Jeanne d’Evreux’s Coronation in the Ordo ad Consecrandum at the University of Illinois
The Commemoration of Jeanne d’Evreux’s Coronation in the Ordo ad Consecrandum at the University of Illinois Hedeman, Anne D. Essays in Medieval Studies,…
Ascension Sundays in Tropers: The Innovative Scenes in the Prüm and Canterbury Tropers and Their Relationship to the Accompanying Texts
Ascension Sundays in Tropers: The Innovative Scenes in the Prüm and Canterbury Tropers and Their Relationship to the Accompanying Texts Marquardt-Cherry, Janet Essays…
The Palaeography of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 197
The Palaeography of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 19 By Francisco Jose Alvarez Lopez The Proceedings of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies Postgraduate Conference (2005)…
John Trevisa and the English and Continental Traditions of De proprietatibus rerum
John Trevisa and the English and Continental Traditions of De proprietatibus rerum Lidaka, Juris G. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 5 (1988) Abstract…
Looking for Manuscripts … and Then?
Looking for Manuscripts … and Then? Huygens, R. B. C. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 4 (1987) Abstract Long ago, during my college…
A Short Catalogue of the Slavic Manuscripts in Vatopedi
A Short Catalogue of the Slavic Manuscripts in Vatopedi By CYRIL PAVLIKIANOV BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA Vol.10 (1996) Introduction: In the summer of 1992 a field trip…
Making sense of Ker’s dates: The origins of Beowulf and the Palaeographers
Making sense of Ker’s dates: The origins of Beowulf and the Palaeographers By Francis Leneghan The Proceedings of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon…
Pen and Parchment – The Beautiful Evidence of Medieval Drawings
Edward Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale University, and the leading authority on information design, discusses how drawings from the Middle Ages exhibit ‘graphical excellence.’
Inventing the Lollard Past : The Afterlife of a Medieval Sermon in Early Modern England
This essay explores the evolving significance of a famous fourteenth-century Paul’s Cross sermon by Thomas Wimbledon in late medieval and early modern England and its transmission from manuscript to print.