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Posted inBooks

A Look at the Holy Roman Empire’s Most Splendid Books

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford November 14, 2021November 15, 2021

A new book joins meticulous historical analysis with more than 150 lush, full-color illustrations of these magnificent books and their elaborate bindings.

Posted inNews

A Look at a Formerly Lost, Glimmering Manuscript by Persian Poet Hafez

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 16, 2020March 16, 2020

The Divan’s whereabouts remained a mystery until last year, when Dutch art crime investigator Arthur Brand — sometimes referred to as “the Indiana Jones of the art world” — tracked it down.

Posted inArt

Illuminated Manuscripts Demonstrate that Medieval Borders Were Regularly Crossed

Avatar photo by Christopher DeCou January 9, 2019January 16, 2019

A new digitization project brings together 800 medieval manuscripts and offers a different image of the early middle ages: one of connection and exchange.

The Boy (countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo) shows the completed pages of the book to the Protector (baritone Mark Stone), in a scene from Written on Skin at Opera Philadelphia.
Posted inPerformance

The Somber Fate of a Manuscript Illuminator

Avatar photo by John Sherer and Andrew Summers February 16, 2018February 16, 2018

In Written on Skin, currently playing at Opera Philadelphia, an illuminated manuscript artist gets involved with his patron’s wife.

Posted inArt

Tracing the Lives of Women in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 28, 2017August 28, 2017

Illuminating Women in the Medieval World at the Getty Center in Los Angeles explores the lives of women in the Middle Ages through their representation in illuminated manuscripts.

Posted inNews

Peruse 1,000-Year-Old Medical Remedies, from Ox Bile to Mandrake Root

by Claire Voon April 11, 2017April 11, 2017

The British Library owns the only extant illustrated Old English herbal, and it recently digitized the entire manuscript.

Posted inNews

A Lavishly Illuminated Medieval Bestiary Goes Online

by Claire Voon November 15, 2016November 15, 2016

The Aberdeen Bestiary is filled with paintings of animals that illustrate tales of moral behavior. You can now page through it online.

Posted inArt

Beyond Gorgeous: Illuminated Manuscripts from Boston Collections

by Natasha Seaman November 12, 2016November 11, 2016

For viewers accustomed to looking at paintings on canvas and panel, manuscripts are a different beast.

Posted inArt

Revisiting an 18th-Century Illuminated Islamic Manuscript

by Julia Friedman April 13, 2015April 12, 2015

One benefit of digitization is the return to the public, if only virtually, of religious and cultural artifacts often long hidden in the collections of institutions far from their regions of origin.

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