Final moments

Recueil de poésies mélangées de latin.
Source: gallica.bnf.fr
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 147, fol. 1v.

2 Responses to "Final moments"

Opsimath says:

December 28, 2013 at 7:16 am

I recently discovered your blog, and am very much enjoying your postings. I particularly appreciate the fact that you post exact references along with the illuminations (which not everyone does). Would it be too difficult for you to add in the date of the ms as well?

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1. jesse says:
  
  December 28, 2013 at 1:05 pm
  
  Thanks for your feedback and I’m glad you’re enjoying the site.
  
  Regarding the dating of manuscripts, I do include the century of each manuscript at the top of each page. You can also consult manuscripts on my site from any given century by following the “Century” menu link. While it would indeed be desirable to categorize each manuscript by quarter century, it is difficult in most cases to establish dates with that degree of precision.
  
  Some more precise information for each manuscript is usually available by clicking on the image within each post to follow the link back to the original library site. In the case of manuscripts from the Gallica collection, for example, there is a link at the top-right of each Gallica page: “Detailed Information” (“Informations détaillées” if you’re looking at the page in French), which opens a panel that includes a great deal of information on each manuscript, including precise dates, where that information is available.
  
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