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Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae Source: British Library Add ms 15603, f.55v.
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae Source: British Library Add ms 15603, f.55v.
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae Source: British Library Add ms 15603, f.93r.
Two terrobolem stones, male and female, when brought close together, spontaneously ignite and create a raging fire. Bestiary Source: British Library Add …
Pinpricks allow the transfer of a drawing from one sheet of vellum to another. Bestiary Source: British Library Add ms 11283, f.6r.
It looks to me like the great fish is in the water in the upper bowl of the capital letter E, while …
Saint-Omer, 1121. Source: Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent Liber Floridus Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS. 92, fol. 52r.
Saint-Omer, 1121. Source: Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent Liber Floridus Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS. 92, fol. 90v.
Here’s how you figure it out: Saint-Omer, 1121. Source: Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent Liber Floridus, HS. 92, fol. 25r.
I’m not sure what astonishes me more, the color palette, the unusual blend of motifs, or perhaps the casual stylistic insouciance in …
The first part of the ‘Montpellier Bible’, containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi. Source: British Library Harley ms …
Paterius, Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti Source: British Library Royal ms 7 f vi, fol. 45r. Paterius, Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti Source: British …
Cue letter on the left. Paterius, Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti Source: British Library Royal ms 7 f vi, fol. 133v.
Excerpt from St Jerome, De viris illustribus; Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae (books 1-14) Source: British Library Royal ms 13 d vi, f.61v.
Theological miscellany including Anonymous, Liber de Philosophia Salomonis; Extract from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Fulgentius Mytographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pigments and alchemical …