The Greatest Bible Ever Written: Kennicott no. 1, La Coruña, Spain, 1476
The Kennicott Bible is the crown jewel of all medieval Hebrew manuscripts, expertly written by a skillful scribe and beautifully illuminated by an ingenious artist.
How to gain an audience and influence readers in the Middle Ages?
How to gain an audience and influence readers? No one actually knows for sure. People have been struggling to understand the mechanics behind a text’s success since the very emergence of writing systems, trying to elaborate an arsenal of means to enhance the popularity of a written work, secure its widespread dissemination, and make it more influential.
Labyrinths in Medieval Manuscripts: The Liber Floridus (ca. 1121)
Divna Manolova on understandings of labyrinths in the medieval period.
Metadata and Balinese Palm Leaf Manuscripts: Digitization Projects and Online Repositories
Paper given at the International Workshop on Metadata Standards for Palm Leaf Manuscripts
Medieval Scottish Patronage in France with Bryony Coombs
Talking about medieval artwork that connects France to Scotland. The first part of a conversation with Bryony Coombs.
Estimating the Loss of Medieval Literature with an Unseen Species Model from Ecodiversity
How much medieval literature has been lost to us?
The medieval scribe as influencer
Authority and authorship in medieval manuscripts…and on the Internet.
Chronicle of Fortingall purchased by the National Library of Scotland
The National Library of Scotland was able to purchase a manuscript known as the Chronicle of Fortingall during an auction last month.
The Getty to reopen with new exhibition on medieval illuminated manuscripts
The J. Paul Getty Museum is reopening on May 25th. With it comes a new exhibition: Power, Justice, and Tyranny in the Middle Ages, that will showcase how medieval Europe struggled with many of the same issues of power and disenfranchisement that contemporary society faces today.
Body and Space in the Uta Codex
At some point between 1020 and 1025, during the final years of Abbess Uta of Niedermünster’s life, she or someone who admired her deeply, donated to the treasury of the Niedermünster cannonry the object that we now know as the Uta Codex.
More than meets the eye: shedding light on medieval manuscripts with imaging science
This talk will include a brief introduction to the history and creation of medieval manuscripts before discussing how imaging science is used to study them.
When sheepskin was an anti-fraud device
Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years to stop fraudsters pulling the wool over people’s eyes, study shows
Lady Dervorgilla and her Collection of Books
Heiress, patron, founder, potential bookworm. Lady Dervorgilla’s achievements as a woman in thirteenth-century Scotland and England are fascinating, and often overlooked.
The Lindisfarne Gospels to head North in 2022
The Lindisfarne Gospels, the most spectacular surviving manuscript from early medieval England, will go on display in the northern town of Newcastle on loan from the British Library in 2022.
Medieval ‘birthing girdle’ parchment was worn during labour, study suggests
Scientists have used emerging proteomic techniques to find traces of ancient vaginal fluid, honey and milk on a rare manuscript from the late 15th century.
From Henryson to the Bannatyne Manuscript, with Lucy Hinnie
Dr. Kate Buchanan is joined by Dr. Lucy Hinnie to discuss Lucy’s journey to studying medieval Scotland and her work on the Bannatyne Manuscript.
15th-century Book of Hours expected to sell for as much as $2.5 million at auction
A collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and printed books is expected to be sold for over $8,000,000 (US) at auction in April.
Medieval Manuscripts: The Val-Dieu Apocalypse
One of the very finest examples of this tradition is the Val-Dieu Apocalypse, a fourteenth-century codex that stands out on account of its opulence and sophistication.
Saskatchewan student probes mystery surrounding medieval manuscript
A University of Saskatchewan graduate student is playing detective to better understand the use and function of a medieval Latin manuscript housed in the University Library—and she may be the first person in the world to have cracked the case.
Manuscripts of Middle English literature go online
Key manuscripts of Middle English literature have been digitised and made available online by the University of Manchester. They include works such as Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and John Lydgate‘s Troy Book and Fall of Princes.
British Library acquires 15th century psalter
The British Library has acquired the Lucas Psalter, a copy of the Psalms dating from the second half of the 15th century. The library plans to digitise the manuscript and make it available online.
Manuscripts, databases, and the joys of Byzantine literature, with Dave Jenkins
A conversation with Dave Jenkins about how we read (and how to enjoy) Byzantine literature, from digitized manuscripts and online databases to the pleasures of Byzantine prose.
Margaret Tudor, Paleography, and the Scots Language, with Helen Newsome
Kate Buchanan is joined by Helen Newsome to discuss Helen’s journey to studying medieval Scottish history, her work on Margaret Tudor’s letters, and…
Medieval Manuscripts: Cartography, Diplomacy and Espionage in the Atlas Miller
A closer look at the lavishly decorated charts reveals not only routes towards new horizons but also hidden motives of its commissioners and a high-stake intrigue.
Lost medieval text discovered on 15th century manuscript
‘We put one of them under the UV light, it showed this amazing dark French cursive underneath’