Medieval History
Bestiary (known as 'The Ashmole Bestiary'). Parchment manuscript, 1200. English.
Created by Jerome in Normandy, Commentary on Isaiah. Parchment manuscript, 11th century. The Virgin between Jerome and Isaiah, and burial of Paula. 
Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, parchment manuscript, French. c. 1450-1470. Image of the fifteenth sign: sun and moon await the coming of Christ. Treatise on Anti-Christ. Judgment, Heaven and Hell.
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- National Library Of Wales Creates Website For 15th Century Manuscript
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- 'monokeros,' Or Unicorns In Imagery And Myth, Ii
Relief showing a Stag and Unicorn, ca. 950, Italian, near Nola. This relief from a church in Nola (near Naples) formed part of a transenna, a low wall that demarcated the church's presbytery, an area reserved for the clergy. The motif of opposed...
- Irish Illumination From The 8th-9th Century
Illuminated page from the MacRegol or Rushworth Gospels. 9th century, beginning (before 822), parchment, Irish. Written in Old English and Latin, and illuminated by MacRegol (d. 822), abbot of Birr, Co. Offaly. Capital illumination by Philippus Presbiter,...
Medieval History
manuscripts
- Old Books Hide Even Older Secrets From Middle Ages
The book before me is huge and heavy, bound, not in paper or cardboard, but with planks of solid oak, held together by thick cords. It looks like a prop from a fantasy film. It?s actually a Latin dictionary, published in the early 1700s. It?s normally...
- Lost And Found: The Secrets Of Archimedes Opens At The Walters
In 1999, the Walters Art Museum and a team of researchers began a project to read the erased texts of The Archimedes Palimpsest?the oldest surviving copy of works by the greatest mathematical genius of antiquity. Over 12 years, many techniques were employed...
- National Library Of Wales Creates Website For 15th Century Manuscript
A colourful medieval manuscript that depicts the story of Alexander the Great is now available online from the National Library of Wales?s website. Peniarth 481D, one of the most elaborately decorated medieval manuscripts in the Library, has survived...
- 'monokeros,' Or Unicorns In Imagery And Myth, Ii
Relief showing a Stag and Unicorn, ca. 950, Italian, near Nola. This relief from a church in Nola (near Naples) formed part of a transenna, a low wall that demarcated the church's presbytery, an area reserved for the clergy. The motif of opposed...
- Irish Illumination From The 8th-9th Century
Illuminated page from the MacRegol or Rushworth Gospels. 9th century, beginning (before 822), parchment, Irish. Written in Old English and Latin, and illuminated by MacRegol (d. 822), abbot of Birr, Co. Offaly. Capital illumination by Philippus Presbiter,...