And on a lighter note - illuminated manuscript cookies from Luminarium Blog.
Ogham from Book of Ballymote manuscript, Royal Irish Academy collection, circa 14th - 15th century.
A Hypocrite Kneels Before a Satanic Beast as it Tramples a Saint
French Manuscript 13th Century
The Chained Library at Hereford Cathedral is a unique and fascinating treasure in Britain’s rich heritage of library history.
There were books at Hereford Cathedral long before there was a ‘library’ in the modern sense.The cathedral’s earliest and most important book is the eighth-century Hereford Gospels; it is one of 229 medieval manuscripts which now occupy two bays of the Chained Library.
![PHYSICI EPIDEMEIE
[noun]
a plague doctor; a special medical physician who saw those who had the bubonic plague. They were specifically hired by towns that had many plague victims in times of plague epidemics. They were not normally professionally trained experienced physicians or surgeons, and often were second-rate doctors not able to otherwise run a successful medical business or young physicians trying to establish themselves.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lybsylfQpT1r47bczo1_500.jpg)
PHYSICI EPIDEMEIE
[noun]
a plague doctor; a special medical physician who saw those who had the bubonic plague. They were specifically hired by towns that had many plague victims in times of plague epidemics. They were not normally professionally trained experienced physicians or surgeons, and often were second-rate doctors not able to otherwise run a successful medical business or young physicians trying to establish themselves.
(Source: victoriousvocabulary)
Handcolored woodcut, ca. 1500, origin unknown
Juan de Torquemada. Meditationes deu Contemplationes devotissimae.
Rome: Stephan Plannck, August 21 1498.
Albumasar. Flores astrologiae.
Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, November 18, 1488.
Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Aleksander Borejko Chodźko
© Emily J. Harding
The Ormesby Psalter is one of the most well-known yet mysterious manuscripts to survive the Middle Ages. Commissioned in the late thirteenth century to celebrate a marriage that never took place, this exquisite book of psalms—likely meant for private devotion by its wealthy patrons—was left unfinished.
Isopet., Besancon, c. 1372, French illuminated manuscript (via)
Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is not a manuscript. It’s actually an incunable. I love the word incunable, and the plural incunabula. I first learned it when I was a graduate trainee at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Manuscripts are written by hand, incunables are, as defined by the OED (which I have free access to online thanks to my local library - w00t!) as “books printed in the infancy of the art.” Lovely!
This particular image is by straightfromthecask and can be found on Flickr. It is creative commons licensed.
It is from the Livre d’heures de Thielman Kerver. It is believed to date from 1500, and is now in the collection at the Musée de Cluny in Paris.
