Long promised, and finally here: this post continues from the previous one on medieval planes , and will focus on the French, German and o...
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By Jenny Weston In last week’s blogpost, Irene O’Daly explored the world of portable books — manuscripts that are small enough (and light enough) to be carried around by the user. In to…
A box-bed (or closed bed, close bed, enclosed bed) is a bed enclosed in furniture that looks like a cupboard, half-opened or not. The form originates in western European late medieval furniture. The...
We are used to having multiple books open at the same time when looking things up at home or writing an essay for class. Whether PDFs, e-books or old-fashioned paper volumes, switching between book…
Leave it to Jeff Burks to turn up a bunch of images of early trestle tables that I haven’t seen before. As you’ll see from the gallery below, these trestle tables are of the old variety – two indep…
My inspiration for the construction of the sella curulis came from the two medieval folding chairs on display in the Museum fur angewandte ...
During the Italian Renaissance there was a return to the classics . The used of the classical order is revive but with a few new trick up there sleeves the renaissance gives birth to wonderful work…
Bibliothèque nationale de France, NAF 18145, detail of f.44r (Alexander the Great having his hair combed). Alain Chartier, Le Secret des secrets. 15th century
BL Add 15277 f.51 The Israelites with the Moabite women in their tents, c.1350-99, Death of Louis IX, BL Sloane 2433 vol. 3 fol. 7v, 1410-1420, Agnolo Gaddi: The Dream of Emperor Heraclius ca. 1385-87, Above: Piero della Francesca: Vision of Constantine 1452-66 Martinus Opifex: Achilles weeps in his bed and Briseis tending the wounded Diomedes 1445-1450 The Trojan War ÖNB 2773
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Nearly 1000 years of history enliven its bones
Your virtual eye on illuminated manuscripts, rare books, and the stories behind them. By Franco Cosimo Panini Editore.
The best pictures of a monastic scriptorium show the monks at work on their elaborate and painstaking artistry. The first picture shows a group of monks in the scriptorium. A monastic scriptorium by Peter Jackson The second picture shows a closer view of a monk at work on his vellum manuscript. A monk writing his […]
Medieval Book Turntable: This Instructable will show how to build a 15th century book turntable. They were used in study and translation, such as comparing multiple translations of the bible at once. This one has the added features of having a book …
