Gravity Explained
Gossuin de Metz explains that if you dug a hole through the center of the Earth, then dropped a rock into the …
Néantplus :: Neverthemore
Gossuin de Metz, L’Image du monde Source: British Library Royal ms 19 a ix, f.44v.
Moses and the Serpents
Excerpt from St Jerome, De viris illustribus; Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae (books 1-14) Source: British Library Royal ms 13 d vi, f.61v.
Long Tail Interlace
Julian of Toledo’s Prognosticon futuri saeculi, with Latin glosses and an Old English gloss; riddles by various authors, including Aldhelm, Symphosius, Eusebius, …
He wanted me to pass this along
Psalter Source: British Library Lansdowne ms 420, f.78r. Psalter Source: British Library Lansdowne ms 420, f.52v.
Seeing Double
Psalter Source: British Library Lansdowne ms 420, f.27v.
Oh, You Mean This S?
Psalter Source: The British Library Lansdowne ms 420, f.20v.
Unfinished Goose
The Four Gospels with St Jerome’s prologues, and a lectionary Source: The British Library Stowe ms 3, f.5v.
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Theological miscellany including Anonymous, Liber de Philosophia Salomonis; Extract from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Fulgentius Mytographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pigments and alchemical …
Oxidized ink, said Ambrosius
Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum, with Old English glosses; Pauca de vitiis and peccatis (imperfect) with Old English glosses Source: The British …
Les Trois Déesses d’Enfer
« Le Champion des Dames, » par « MARTIN LE FRANC, prevost de l’église de Lausane. » (1440). Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale …
Any Way You Look At It …
Horae ad usum Parisiensem [Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry]. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 919, fol. …
Out of the Darkness, Into the Light
Evangelia [Evangiles dits de Bonvilliers] Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 278, fol. 62v.
Blue Gospel
Evangelia Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 9391, fol. 121v.