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Guess the letter. From a 17th-century German book on the art of writing. A great range of different styles are represented seemingly increasing in complexity, and also illegibility, as the book goes on: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-proper-art-of-writing-1655

The manuscripts in our collection can be written on a variety of materials; most common are paper and parchment. But what is parchment? In today's #ManuscriptBasics, curator Dot Porter will tell all about it! If you have a question, ask, and maybe we'll make a video to answer!

Compiling the posts for #drollerydonnerstag, we notice that in Ms. Codex 724, drolleries only appear on pages that have illuminated initials, and all pages with illuminated initials have drolleries. Did the scribe reward themselves for a job well done? Examples here are from folios 52v, 81v, and 83v, but this is consistent through the book.

(The ninth video is The Role of Law in Governing Medieval England which isn’t about making manuscripts but rather using them - so there are a couple of cool manuscripts in there too)

The J. Paul Getty Museum  OgFFLEpD7Ia7lA at Google Cultural Institute via Wikimedia

Next up in our #SIMSseries for Ms. Codex 1566, the 14th century book of hours from Metz, France: a brief look inside, at the calendar, and then a miniature of the Virgin and Child, nursing - typical of use of Metz - at the opening of Matins. Online: bit.ly/3wktwWw

Form of… manuscript leaf! Shape of… envelope! Today’s #FragmentFriday is Ms. Coll 591, folder 47, a leaf containing Alcuin’s instruction manual for the Christian catechism of pagan Saxons, folded into an envelope. France, 9th c. Online record: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9977256075103681

Online record: bit.ly/3FnU5ht

Whatever it is, it’s hanging out at the bottom of the Tree of Jesse on f. 3v of Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century French Bible #drollerydonnerstag #medieval #manuscript #bible #french #13thc #dragon #itsadragon #illustration #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram https://instagr.am/p/CcVaYF5s0Da/

Today’s #ManuscriptOfTheDay is LJS 101, a 9th-century copy of Boethius’s Latin translation of Aristotle’s De interpretatione, with the shorter of two commentaries that Boethius wrote on that work. Replacement leaves added in the 11th century. #medieval #manuscript #philosophy #boethius #aristotle #9thc #11thc #carolingian #illustration #illumination #initial #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram https://instagr.am/p/CcIjUP2sxJ0/

Today’s #ManuscriptOfTheDay is Ms. Codex 729, two unbound quires from a work dealing with canon law. On 1r is an historiated initial of the author Guillaume de Mandagot teaching, with drollery of rabbit playing bagpipes. France, 14th c. #medieval #manuscript #fragment #drollery #rabbit #bunny #bagpipes #initial #illumination #law #canonlaw #fragment #bookstagram #bookhistory #librariesofinstagram https://instagr.am/p/CbBAFCYFfF8/

Today’s #ManuscriptOfTheDay is Ms. Codex 196, a collection of three devotional works in metrical verse, written in English ca. 1400 #medieval #manuscript #devotion #poetry #english #england #13thc https://instagr.am/p/COt-Tfpp4EX/

This 14th century Italian manuscript of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae features a historiated initial, decorative border, and a (very amusing) grotesque on its first page. Also pictured is the verso of the front flyleaf which has scribbled notes and names in Latin and Italian, as well as some doodles. 

Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 469-470