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Michelle Gibson's avatar

This is a fantastic resource!

stas's avatar

Absolutely fantastic! I stayed at a wonderfully strange hotel in San Francisco whose cafe was painted with scenes from the Bodleian Library MS Bodley 264. I had thought they were just funky little illustrations until today, when I immediately recognized them in this list. What a treat :)

weird medieval guys's avatar

oh thats brilliant! i would love to know the name of the place if you remember :)

stas's avatar

Of course! It was the Cornell Hotel de France - the cafe was Jeanne d’Arc themed

Wordy Ramblings's avatar

How were they able to create the richest most stunning shade of blue I'd ever seen

Victoria Olt's avatar

You can get very nice synthetic ultramarine now that looks very similar to lapis lazuli and is nowhere near as expensive! I once bought 10 grams of lapis lazuli for 50€

Jessica Jolicoeur's avatar

My favorite colour blue!

Tanya Zeif's avatar

So good!!!

Patch's avatar

These are beautiful! Thanks so much for posting the links.

AtomicKitten's avatar

The health related one reminded me of health influencers on IG - showing of the many eggplants in their yard, lol. Timeless!

Here's looking at Yew's avatar

I love this. What an incredible rabbit hole.

Kenlyn Stewart's avatar

These feel delightfully immune to time, whimsical, imaginative, and brimming with original vision. That’s a rare thing these days. I can only imagine how wonderful they must be in person. Thanks so much for sharing the sources with us.

Christa Clark's avatar

This is so generous of you to share! Thank you!

valery domínguez's avatar

The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry mentioned!! I love this manuscript sooo much, every time I get to mention it I get si excited!! <3 also, I've been seeing these images for a long time now about courtly love and i didn't know they came from Cortex Manasse, this is a nice discovery :) thank you for sharing these beautiful manuscripts and feeding my medievalist soul <3

Kerri Christopher's avatar

@Ruth Gaskovski if you haven’t seen this I think you’d like it!

Ruth Gaskovski's avatar

Wow - Love it! Thanks for sharing Kerri :)

Kristine Benoit de Bykhovetz's avatar

The Tacuinum Sanitatis is fascinating! the images almost reverse the usual medieval hierarchy of text and illustration… the pictures carry the health advice more vividly than the writing itself. Looking at them today feels strangely contemporary.

Stickala's avatar

Just want to add the fantastic St John’s Bible reproduced by renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson. I know it’s a bit out of turn from the ancients you’ve listed, but I can’t tell you how beautiful these books and contents are! I saw them displayed at Salisbury Cathedral- if you can, go and see!!

Bozena Hartzell's avatar

Thank you! Wonderful!

Branches to Roots's avatar

This is super helpful. Most articles that include a number in the title are a hard-pass for me. This is curation I’m down for! Cheers

Ellen Cope's avatar

Thank you so much for compiling and sharing this resource!