These woes, Jesus by extension says would happen to this generation because of hypocrisy.
Possibly better than asking the Fates.
The Bible and the Quran are two significant religious texts followed by the practices of billions of people worldwide. While many believe the Bible predates
Handwriting is one of those things most people don’t really give a second thought to today – we live in a world where we are surrounded by text and the vast majority of the time it is printed rather than hand written, and children today are far more likely to receive classes in touch-typing than traditional penmanship.
One of the most arduous tasks before the advent of printing was the painstaking copying of texts by mediaeval scribes, most often monks, and their work has come down to us in many different forms. A mediaval scribe illuminating a capital letter, by John Keay Some manuscripts are comparatively ordinary, concerned with the routine of […]
Bibliothèque nationale de France MS Fr 9198, f.19
Esta pequeña tabla formaba parte de la predella de la Maestá, altar encargado a Duccio para el Duomo de Siena...
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ~Benjamin Franklin~
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'Opera Dianto Nella Quale Vedrete Molte Caratteri di Lettere' (~ Work through which you wil...
What I find most remarkable about the bookish slice of medieval society that I study is not so much the differences between medieval manuscripts and our modern books, but their similarities.
This post was meant to go up last week, but burnout got to me and almost nothing went up. So, first of all, I apologize for the missed week. Here’s the post you were meant to get last week, all about how to build a language (conlang = “constructed language”) that will add realism to…
Ancient Egyptian art refers to the style of painting, sculpture, crafts and architecture developed by the civilization in the lower Nile Valley from 5000 BC to 300 AD.
Tutivillus or Titivillus is a demon associated with writing and literacy. In the Middle Ages he was painted on church walls and carved on misericords, bench ends and corbels; he trod the boards as a character in the Towneley Judicium and Mankind; he introduced errors into scribes’ work copying texts...
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Period: First Intermediate Period. Dynasty: Dynasty 11 or earlier. Date: ca. 2030 B.C.. Geography: From Egypt. Medium: Wood, whitewash, ink. Dimensions: H. ...
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, from the Cotton Nero A.x manuscript 1400s. Via Wikimedia commons One of my favorite scribal books is The Illuminated Alphabet by Patri…
Le Blog Enluminure traite de pigments utilisés pour la peinture de manuscrits et aussi de l'iconographie du peintre et du scribe. Des recettes de couleurs sont proposées. Ainsi que les instruments du copiste. Saint Luc, patron des peintres est aussi une image très présente sur ce Blog.
A medieval monastery was an enclosed and sometimes remote community of monks led by an abbot who shunned worldly goods to live a simple life of prayer and devotion. Christian monasteries first developed...
By Irene O’Daly Scribal portraits in medieval books were fairly common, and can be an important resource for scholars attempting to reconstruct the atmosphere of a medieval scriptorium, as th…
This Gospel Book was written in Tegray, Northern Ethiopia, in the early fourteenth century, and was once owned by the church of St. George in Dabra Maar. It was written by the scribe Matre Krestos in the official liturgical language of Ethiopia, Ge'ez. Most notable is its prefatory image cycle, which makes references to holy places in Jerusalem, such as Golgotha and the Holy Sepulcher, as they appeared in the sixth century. The manuscript therefore appears to be based on a sixth-century exemplar containing images connected to the Byzantine cult of holy places. Several related manuscripts have been identified that seem to be based on the same prototype, most notably Paris, Bibliotheque nationale eth. 32, a fragment in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Inventory No. 3475 a-b, and another fragment in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, NM B 2034. The Paris manuscript contains a mid-fourteenth-century colophon which helps date the group. Although water has damaged some of its elaborately decorated pages, this Gospel Book is still an important record of the resurgence of monasticism that flourished in fourteenth-century Ethiopia.