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The Gutenberg Bible, digitised by the HUMI Project, Keio University, July 2005; © National Library of Scotland
The Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed with moveable type. Printed in Mainz, Germany, around 1455 by Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of printing, and Johannes Fust. One of around only 20 complete copies to survive out of the original 180. Two volumes. Also known as The 42-line Bible or The Mazarine Bible.
A page from the Old Testament from the chapter I Maccabees, contains handwritten red rubrics. Decorated initial M; historiated initial U (the correct initial should be E) depicting King Alexander hitting King Philip of Macedony. The Greeks under Alexander had conquered Judea. Marginalia visible but faded through washing.
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Taken on one of my first safaris and in Tanzania in the spectacular Serengeti. She is certainly the master of all she surveys or is she.
This was taken seven years ago and there was no talk about the lion population of Africa being in danger. However, during my last trip to the continent a year ago that observation had changed.
They are not officially on the wildlife's endangered list, but I am putting them into my series of animals whose numbers are RAPIDLY declining due to poaching and hunting by humans. Farmers in Africa have always killed lions who stalked their domestic farm animals as well, but progress is being made to help them deal with lions in other ways.
Today is World Wildlife Day and to read more about what we can all do to preserve the species in danger you can go to this site: www.un.org/en/events/wildlifeday/
And another great article about Jane Goodall www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/magazine/jane-goodall-is-still...
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No part of the story, this is what is know as marginalia.
We have had a lot of rain this summer, and with the rain, the snails came. So I had to build a Lego snail, and picked a simple Lego design from set 11011. And changed it a bit as I always do (other colours).
Back in the days when each copy of a book had to be written by hand, the writers and illuminators would get bored too, and would doodle and write in the margins... Comments about how cold it was, and how much their hand hurt. And drawings... Boy could they draw!
Those are known as marginalia. And like the toilet doodles in art school, those doodles were done on the level of skill of those who made them.
Marginalia often depict rather grotesque scenes, monkeys, rabbits and snails doing battle in armour and what not.
So when I had a snail and knights at hand...
Now a brick build bunny, hare or rabbit...
A little rabbit knight. There are all kinds of marginalia illustrations of rabbits fighting, skinning, and torturing knights in medieval manuscripts and no one is really entirely sure why.
Quick build over a couple days, I wanted to give her a shield but kinda ran out of time.
Half of my entry for Bio-Cup 2020 Redemption Round 3.
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MARGE is a rabbit who’s had one too many knights come tramping through her carrot patch and is ready to take the fight to them.
ALLIUM is her loyal steed. People think he's a demon but he'd much rather just be munching on some leeks.
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Built for the Redemption Round 3 of the 2020 Bio-Cup, theme: Western Art History.
I based these on the strange illustrations found in the margins of Medieval illuminated manuscripts (formally called marginalia) of knights fighting rabbits on monstrous hybrid snails.
A message of hope with a sharpie. Read between the lines. C+, C++ Java is not coffee but espresso is served free daily to coders who ride their fish-cycles to work. Saving the world one small thing at a time
Sketchbook, Photoshop Mix (app), foldify, and a whole lot of freehand illustration.
ink offset at p10,
“The Herd Mentality / Can We Learn Anything From Horses?”
print and web titles, article by Caity Weaver, The New York Times, Sunday Styles (March 21, 2021) : 1, 10
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A red robed fae with a feline grin,
Lives in a book where the tales begin.
She scribbles in margins and steals your plot,
Then hides in a chapter you quite forgot!
Details:
Dinkies Sphynx avatar by Tiny Inc.
Micachan - Magic astral red outfit
!!!Charm - Dinkies Hair Aleida, Fantasy tattoo, jewelry, and Dinkies Stylish Nails
DarkMoon - Dinkie flexi wings
Boudoir - Book Flowers
{e} Book Tree
*Now at Enchanted Realms**
*Sterling Wear* Book House. Shaped like a stack of books with a tooled leather book door, this house is for Dinkies and small avatars.
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When I noticed the snow on some gravel outside I couldn't resist. Then I noticed this ancient clothespin and that just made it even better. It's like an archaeological dig in reverse.
The books you come to read are heavily illustrated, annotated, marginalized and in the card catalogue!
Sketchbook, PhotoWizard, Blending Modes, ToonCamera,
ink offset at p10,
“The Herd Mentality / Can We Learn Anything From Horses?”
print and web titles, article by Caity Weaver, The New York Times, Sunday Styles (March 21, 2021) : 1, 10
20220729
In our dreams there is a path. Everyone has their own. Like the white feather of Truth weighed against our heart our path through our field is the straight and narrow.
Sketchbook, formulas, PhotoWizard, DistressedFX blending modes++ lots and lots of blending modes.
It’s coming, her hair is patterned after radar hurricanes. I have found that random blown hair looks false. Following some sort of natural force, tides, weather patterns, etc.
Sketchbook Blending modes, photo wizard plaster, Lots and Lots of blending modes.
This gilded snail, quietly inching its way down the carved stone of a stair balustrade by the choir in Barcelona’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia, is a striking example of the long-standing tradition of whimsical, naturalistic, and non-ecclesiastical imagery in cathedral sculpture. Though the setting is sacred, the subject is anything but grand: a humble mollusk rendered with care and dignity, its spiral shell gleaming beneath layers of gold leaf and centuries of reverence.
Medieval and early modern cathedrals often host an entire bestiary of oddities—frogs, monkeys, grinning demons, laborers, and lovers—hidden amid soaring pinnacles and holy iconography. Far from being random, these sculptural flourishes served multiple purposes. They reflected the fullness of creation, gave stonemasons and woodcarvers creative freedom, reminded worshippers of humility, or injected humor into the sacred space. They also echoed the moralizing spirit of medieval literature and sermons, which saw even the smallest creature as a potential bearer of allegory.
Snails in particular appear frequently in Gothic marginalia, bestiaries, and even jousting scenes—sometimes in absurd combat with knights. Interpretations vary: they may symbolize sloth, humility, the slow but steady passage of time, or the ridiculousness of human pride. Here, the snail’s golden surface and careful placement suggest reverence for life’s smaller forms, a message etched into stone just beneath the gaze of angels and martyrs.
The carving appears to be part of the elaborate neo-Gothic restoration and embellishment work carried out at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia in Barcelona during the late 19th century, especially under the direction of architect Josep Oriol Mestres. While the cathedral's core Gothic structure dates to the 13th–15th centuries, the famous façade, much of the upper decoration, and many interior details (including whimsical sculptures like this snail) were completed or added between 1882 and 1913 in a historicist Gothic Revival style.
The precision of the carving, the crispness of its ornament, and the use of gold leaf also point to this later period, when there was both the technical ability and the Romantic impulse to blend humor, nature, and artistry into even minor decorative features.
This was typical of 19th-century Gothic revivalism, which often drew inspiration from medieval precedents but took greater license to express individualism, fantasy, and irony—even in sacred spaces.
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Nativity, Flight into Egypt. From The Hours of Catherine of Cleves.
Books of Hours were medieval prayer books designed for laymen.
Illuminated by The Master Of Catherine of Cleves, The Netherlands, Utrecht, ca 1440.
The manuscript is housed at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City.
Marginalia in Medieval Manuscripts at
johanphoto.blogspot.nl/2013/02/in-de-kantlijn-van-middele...
St. Agatha. A page from The Hours of Catherine of Cleves.
Illuminated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves, The Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440.
Books of Hours were medieval prayer books designed for laymen.
The manuscript is housed at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City.
Marginalia in Medieval Manuscripts at
johanphoto.blogspot.nl/2013/02/in-de-kantlijn-van-middele...
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws, charters, inventories and deeds.
While Islamic manuscripts can also be called illuminated, and use essentially the same techniques, comparable Far Eastern and Mesoamerican works are described as painted.
The earliest illuminated manuscripts in existence come from the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths and the Eastern Roman Empire and date from between 400 and 600 CE. Examples include the Codex Argenteus and the Rossano Gospels, both of which are from the 6th century. The majority of extant manuscripts are from the Middle Ages, although many survive from the Renaissance, along with a very limited number from Late Antiquity.
Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment or vellum.These pages were then bound into books, called codices (singular: codex). A very few illuminated fragments also survive on papyrus. Books ranged in size from ones smaller than a modern paperback, such as the pocket gospel, to very large ones such as choirbooks for choirs to sing from, and "Atlantic" bibles, requiring more than one person to lift them.
Paper manuscripts appeared during the Late Middle Ages. Very early printed books left spaces for red text, known as rubrics, miniature illustrations and illuminated initials, all of which would have been added later by hand. Drawings in the margins (known as marginalia) would also allow scribes to add their own notes, diagrams, translations, and even comic flourishes.
The introduction of printing rapidly led to the decline of illumination. Illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced in the early 16th century but in much smaller numbers, mostly for the very wealthy. They are among the most common items to survive from the Middle Ages; many thousands survive. They are also the best surviving specimens of medieval painting, and the best preserved. Indeed, for many areas and time periods, they are the only surviving examples of painting
This small Book of Hours is especially interesting for its profusion of humorous drolleries. Humans, animals, and hybrids are featured in the margins of each page of the book. The artists rendered in small scenes a variety of actions, like cooking, playing game, climbing, fishing, making music or moving the bodies in a dance. These drolleries amuse the faithful during his prayers, while showing scenes that work as metaphors of the soul fighting the vices. The original female owner seems to have been established in the diocese of Cambrai, judging from the use of the Office of the Dead. Several provenance episodes are evidenced by the book in the signatures on the leaves at the beginning and end of the manuscript. A priest in the sixteenth century wrote a message in code on fol. 1v asking to return to him the book if lost. Members of the ducal house of Savoy owned this book of prayer in the seventeenth century, as evidenced by the gilt armorial shield of Charles Emmanuel II (1634-75), duke of Savoy, stamped on the covers.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
The newest addition to my collection of guidebooks used by bygone travellers: This is the first book in my collection where the previous owner wasn't completely forgotten by time. Before Los Angeleno historian Frank McCleunan Keffer wrote The History of San Fernando (1934), he travelled throughout Post-WW1 Europe in the summer of 1925. He used the margins of a popular guidebook - The Satchel Guide To Europe - to jot down notes on what he saw during his journey.
The map in this photo was detached from the back of the book. It shows a pencil outline of the route Mr. Keffer took through Europe. He also included the names of the ships he took across the Atlantic.
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An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws, charters, inventories and deeds.
While Islamic manuscripts can also be called illuminated, and use essentially the same techniques, comparable Far Eastern and Mesoamerican works are described as painted.
The earliest illuminated manuscripts in existence come from the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths and the Eastern Roman Empire and date from between 400 and 600 CE. Examples include the Codex Argenteus and the Rossano Gospels, both of which are from the 6th century. The majority of extant manuscripts are from the Middle Ages, although many survive from the Renaissance, along with a very limited number from Late Antiquity.
Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment or vellum.These pages were then bound into books, called codices (singular: codex). A very few illuminated fragments also survive on papyrus. Books ranged in size from ones smaller than a modern paperback, such as the pocket gospel, to very large ones such as choirbooks for choirs to sing from, and "Atlantic" bibles, requiring more than one person to lift them.
Paper manuscripts appeared during the Late Middle Ages. Very early printed books left spaces for red text, known as rubrics, miniature illustrations and illuminated initials, all of which would have been added later by hand. Drawings in the margins (known as marginalia) would also allow scribes to add their own notes, diagrams, translations, and even comic flourishes.
The introduction of printing rapidly led to the decline of illumination. Illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced in the early 16th century but in much smaller numbers, mostly for the very wealthy. They are among the most common items to survive from the Middle Ages; many thousands survive. They are also the best surviving specimens of medieval painting, and the best preserved. Indeed, for many areas and time periods, they are the only surviving examples of painting
A prancing, gold-antlered stag gleams from an oak door at Oslo City Hall—part of a whimsical, stylized menagerie in metal that enlivens the building’s monumental architecture. Both decorative and symbolic, this door detail draws from Nordic animal motifs seen in Viking art, medieval manuscript marginalia, and traditional ironwork. The geometric forms and riveted joints echo Norway’s mid-century design vocabulary: proud of its folk roots but shaped by modernist clarity. Together with the wrought-iron frame and golden grip, the motif transforms a functional fixture into a quiet celebration of heritage, craft, and place.
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An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws, charters, inventories and deeds.
While Islamic manuscripts can also be called illuminated, and use essentially the same techniques, comparable Far Eastern and Mesoamerican works are described as painted.
The earliest illuminated manuscripts in existence come from the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths and the Eastern Roman Empire and date from between 400 and 600 CE. Examples include the Codex Argenteus and the Rossano Gospels, both of which are from the 6th century. The majority of extant manuscripts are from the Middle Ages, although many survive from the Renaissance, along with a very limited number from Late Antiquity.
Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment or vellum.These pages were then bound into books, called codices (singular: codex). A very few illuminated fragments also survive on papyrus. Books ranged in size from ones smaller than a modern paperback, such as the pocket gospel, to very large ones such as choirbooks for choirs to sing from, and "Atlantic" bibles, requiring more than one person to lift them.
Paper manuscripts appeared during the Late Middle Ages. Very early printed books left spaces for red text, known as rubrics, miniature illustrations and illuminated initials, all of which would have been added later by hand. Drawings in the margins (known as marginalia) would also allow scribes to add their own notes, diagrams, translations, and even comic flourishes.
The introduction of printing rapidly led to the decline of illumination. Illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced in the early 16th century but in much smaller numbers, mostly for the very wealthy. They are among the most common items to survive from the Middle Ages; many thousands survive. They are also the best surviving specimens of medieval painting, and the best preserved. Indeed, for many areas and time periods, they are the only surviving examples of painting
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws, charters, inventories and deeds.
While Islamic manuscripts can also be called illuminated, and use essentially the same techniques, comparable Far Eastern and Mesoamerican works are described as painted.
The earliest illuminated manuscripts in existence come from the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths and the Eastern Roman Empire and date from between 400 and 600 CE. Examples include the Codex Argenteus and the Rossano Gospels, both of which are from the 6th century. The majority of extant manuscripts are from the Middle Ages, although many survive from the Renaissance, along with a very limited number from Late Antiquity.
Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment or vellum.These pages were then bound into books, called codices (singular: codex). A very few illuminated fragments also survive on papyrus. Books ranged in size from ones smaller than a modern paperback, such as the pocket gospel, to very large ones such as choirbooks for choirs to sing from, and "Atlantic" bibles, requiring more than one person to lift them.
Paper manuscripts appeared during the Late Middle Ages. Very early printed books left spaces for red text, known as rubrics, miniature illustrations and illuminated initials, all of which would have been added later by hand. Drawings in the margins (known as marginalia) would also allow scribes to add their own notes, diagrams, translations, and even comic flourishes.
The introduction of printing rapidly led to the decline of illumination. Illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced in the early 16th century but in much smaller numbers, mostly for the very wealthy. They are among the most common items to survive from the Middle Ages; many thousands survive. They are also the best surviving specimens of medieval painting, and the best preserved. Indeed, for many areas and time periods, they are the only surviving examples of painting
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws, charters, inventories and deeds.
While Islamic manuscripts can also be called illuminated, and use essentially the same techniques, comparable Far Eastern and Mesoamerican works are described as painted.
The earliest illuminated manuscripts in existence come from the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths and the Eastern Roman Empire and date from between 400 and 600 CE. Examples include the Codex Argenteus and the Rossano Gospels, both of which are from the 6th century. The majority of extant manuscripts are from the Middle Ages, although many survive from the Renaissance, along with a very limited number from Late Antiquity.
Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment or vellum.These pages were then bound into books, called codices (singular: codex). A very few illuminated fragments also survive on papyrus. Books ranged in size from ones smaller than a modern paperback, such as the pocket gospel, to very large ones such as choirbooks for choirs to sing from, and "Atlantic" bibles, requiring more than one person to lift them.
Paper manuscripts appeared during the Late Middle Ages. Very early printed books left spaces for red text, known as rubrics, miniature illustrations and illuminated initials, all of which would have been added later by hand. Drawings in the margins (known as marginalia) would also allow scribes to add their own notes, diagrams, translations, and even comic flourishes.
The introduction of printing rapidly led to the decline of illumination. Illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced in the early 16th century but in much smaller numbers, mostly for the very wealthy. They are among the most common items to survive from the Middle Ages; many thousands survive. They are also the best surviving specimens of medieval painting, and the best preserved. Indeed, for many areas and time periods, they are the only surviving examples of painting
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws, charters, inventories and deeds.
While Islamic manuscripts can also be called illuminated, and use essentially the same techniques, comparable Far Eastern and Mesoamerican works are described as painted.
The earliest illuminated manuscripts in existence come from the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths and the Eastern Roman Empire and date from between 400 and 600 CE. Examples include the Codex Argenteus and the Rossano Gospels, both of which are from the 6th century. The majority of extant manuscripts are from the Middle Ages, although many survive from the Renaissance, along with a very limited number from Late Antiquity.
Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment or vellum.These pages were then bound into books, called codices (singular: codex). A very few illuminated fragments also survive on papyrus. Books ranged in size from ones smaller than a modern paperback, such as the pocket gospel, to very large ones such as choirbooks for choirs to sing from, and "Atlantic" bibles, requiring more than one person to lift them.
Paper manuscripts appeared during the Late Middle Ages. Very early printed books left spaces for red text, known as rubrics, miniature illustrations and illuminated initials, all of which would have been added later by hand. Drawings in the margins (known as marginalia) would also allow scribes to add their own notes, diagrams, translations, and even comic flourishes.
The introduction of printing rapidly led to the decline of illumination. Illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced in the early 16th century but in much smaller numbers, mostly for the very wealthy. They are among the most common items to survive from the Middle Ages; many thousands survive. They are also the best surviving specimens of medieval painting, and the best preserved. Indeed, for many areas and time periods, they are the only surviving examples of painting
Known today as the St. Francis Missal, this manuscript is traditionally believed to be the very book consulted by St. Francis and his companions in 1208. According to early accounts, St. Francis and two followers were debating what God’s plan for them might be. Unable to decide, they sought answers at the church of San Nicolò in Assisi, which Francis often attended. They opened the Missal, which sat on the altar, three times at random and in every case, the text on the page urged renouncing earthly goods. This pivotal moment laid the foundation for the Franciscan order. An inscription in the book on fol. 166r lends support to the legend that surrounds it, for it documents the Missal's creation for the church of San Nicolò, and also mentions the book's patron, Gerard of Ugo, who is documented in Assisi in the late 12th century. Due to its possible contact with the saint, Franciscans worldwide consider it to be a relic of touch, and every year many make pilgrimages to Baltimore to be in its presence, and to see the three places they believe Francis opened the manuscript to (fols. 119v-120r, 132v-133r, and 249v-250r). The manuscript underwent intensive conservation from 2017-2019, a special project made possible by the Mellon Foundation.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.