Does anyone know what these indentations on the edges of this 16th-century binding are from? #medievalmanuscripts #bookbinding #chainedbook

Today, our students from ⁦Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy⁩ visited the library of ⁦Národní muzeum⁩ 🇨🇿 where they had the privilege to see some of the unique #medievalManuscripts from its collections. Special thanks to the librarian Zdeněk Mužík! 🙏

Manuscript scholars! Please consider submitting an abstract to our session 'Fragments and the Big Picture' at Kalamazoo 2024. More info: helsinki.fi/en/researchgro…
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With this nice view from the reading room at Tresoar, I really don't mind working inside all day! 😄
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Last week, in Sens, examining our first set of early medieval relic labels.

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#FolkloreSunday
For the illuminators of Medieval Manuscripts, Rabbits seem to have had a rather sinister reputation - these ones all seem to have homicidal tendencies ....
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Another detail from the Chronica Maiora II by Matthew Paris, depicting an early English disciple of St Francis - Brother William, wrapped in his habit and looking attentively at the script as though absorbing it from his position in the margin.
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#MedievalManuscripts at the St Francis of Assisi exhibition National Gallery. These intricate illustrations are from the Chronica Maiora II by Matthew Paris, a Benedictine monk from St Albans with an abundant output. The line-work is incredibly fine, a privilege to see in person!

This is Bernard.

Bernard is by far our most popular request for image licensing.

..and we'd like to know why.

Don't get us wrong, we can see that he's lovely, but what makes St Bernard of Clairvaux quite so popular?

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#MedievalManuscripts - Manuscript fragments tell part of the story of Merlin the magician, one of the most famous characters from Arthurian legend. The fragments contain a passage from the Vulgate Cycle (Lancelot-Grail Cycle), from the 13th century.
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Wishing everyone a happy Christmas from Winchester. These miniatures are from Fellows' Library MS102, a Book of Hours by the Master of the Rouen Échevinage (active 1455-85).
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#ShakespeareSunday

'They surfeited with honey and began
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much.'

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International codicological conference in #Olomouc coming soon:
📚 Medieval and Early Renaissance Books from and in Olomouc
📚 Bücher des Mittelalters und der Frührenaissance aus und in Olmütz

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#MedievalManuscripts Der Heidelberger Vergil 1473-74 arthistoricum.net/en/subjects/im…
Frontispiz: Minneallegorie: ein auf blühenden Zweigen sitzender Falke, Schriftband, Devise

Special performance by Schola Hyberniae for our #MedievalManuscripts Project. A chant from 15th-century manuscript ‘Clondalkin Breviary,’ transcribed and prepared for performance and wider scholarly study by Dr Dr Ann Buckley.
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Today's lesson from the early medieval nuns of Chelles:
embrace your mistakes and make them stylish!

Enarrationes in psalmos I-L (Köln, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, Cod. 64, f. 7r

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Judith of Flanders was exiled in 1065 and died in 1094, leaving her books to Weingarten, where she was buried. This binding, with delicate filigree and cast figures, was added in the last third of the 11th century. Now on view in the East Room!

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New arrivals from Van De Wiele Auctions! #rarebooks #medievalmanuscripts

Left, a composite volume with a rare print on the symbolical significance to every feather in the six wings of the Seraphim 👼

Right, a devotional 16th c. treatise : a copy of 'Meester Eckhart en de leek'

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Tybert - the 'Prince of Cats' is a mischievous trickster, who has many adventures according to medieval texts - but his greatest enjoyment comes from outwitting his adversary Reynard the Fox.
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#MedievalManuscripts Rudolf von Ems, Weltchronik, Regensburg c. 1400-1410, Building the Tower of Babel. Note the putlog holes
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