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upennmanuscripts · 16 hours

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Eerie the eel’s head.

This full, plum-sleeked fruit of evolution.

- Ted Hughes

An eel is wielded in the bottom margin of f. 242r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible. #drollerydonnerstag

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#medieval #manuscript #medieval manuscript #illuminated manuscript #illumination #illustration #drollery donnerstag #drollery #marginalia #grotesque

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cuties-in-codices · 3 months

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guy sitting by a fire

in a manuscript of jean de wavrin's "anciennes chroniques d'angleterre", flanders, c. 1470-90

source: Paris, BnF, Français 75, fol. 198r

#15th century #marginalia #drolleries #anciennes chroniques d'angleterre #jean de wavrin #medieval art

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fox-teeth · 5 months

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Everyone liked the color charts I test printed for Basilisk so much, I felt compelled made a nice version! Great for anyone that has an interest in Risograph printing, historical pigments, or weird medieval marginalia.

(buy it here)

#Basilisk is in the process of restocking FYI for anyone that wants both :)#risograph #color chart #medieval #marginalia #medieval manuscripts #medieval art #illuminated manuscript #printmaking #monsters

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honeyglot · 2 years

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get it here

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a-book-of-creatures · 2 months

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Hey tumblr we need to have a talk about something I noticed.

Specifically going by tags attached to images I’ve blogged or reblogged, there seems to be a misconception that marginalia means “any quirky medieval art”.

It’s not.

Marginalia is anything in the margins of a text.

The ones that will get posted on tumblr will more often than not be quirky drawings, but they also include notes, annotations, scribbles, and whatever else. The quirky drawings just happen to get a lot of press on here because, well. They’re quirky drawings.

For instance, see this image here of a platanista (river dolphin) chomping down on an elephant’s trunk?

This is not marginalia! This is a full-fledged illustration. It’s within the text (Liber natura rerum, Thomas de Cantimpré, Librairie de Valenciennes Ms 0320). It illustrates the entry on Platanista.

This is what it looks like in context.

But you know what are marginalia? Let me circle them for convenience.

Know the difference. It won’t save your life but it will make you more popular at a medievalist conference.

#medieval #marginalia #liber de natura rerum

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mioritic · 5 months

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St. Edmund, decapitated, cries ("hic, hic, hic") in the margins of a 12th century Bible

MS 002III (The Bury Bible), f. 322r

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, via red_loeb

#st. edmund #medieval #marginalia #medieval art

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kiersau · 1 year

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𝕻𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖛𝖘 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖑 𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖚𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖎𝖕𝖙𝖘

#pentiment #weird medieval guys #medieval manuscripts #illuminated manuscript #marginalia #medieval manuscript #500 #1000 #1500 #2000 #2500 #3000

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othmeralia · 15 days

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I LOVE a well used and well annotated book! Any signs of actual, everyday usage is such a wonderful find in rare books.

This is found in our copy of Bouquet composé des plus belles fleurs chimiques (1629) by David de Planis Campy.

#materia medica #old books #rare books #used books #loved books #handwriting #marginalia #othmeralia

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bad-moodboard · 2 years

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Dutch, 15th Century

#wierd medieval guys #medieval #marginalia #deer #snail #snails #anters #brown #cryptids

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yeoldegodzilla · 17 days

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Godzilla working as a blacksmith was a common theme in medieval manuscript marginalia.

#godzilla #medieval #manuscript #marginalia

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jbbartram-illu · 21 days

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These are my two sons, Swooping & Creeping. Pls be nice to them?

(I'm back from my trip & desperately trying to get the rest of the mugs done so I can start a new batch of pottery for a summer market I'm doing, eeek!!)

#artblog #pottery #ceramics #handbuiltceramics #ceramicart #ceramicsculpture #handbuilding #clay #stoneware #medieval marginalia #marginalia #medieval #middle ages

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cuties-in-codices · 10 months

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