Manuscript Art

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Bede’s Prose Life of St Cuthbert. Folio 60r. Dated around 1170. Saint Cuthbert heals a sick girl by

Carpet page from The Lindisfarne Gospels introducing the Gospel of Matthew - made for “God and St Cu

Symbols representing the Zodiac from The York PsalterFolios 1-5, Origin; England 1260Add MS 54179, I

Adoration of the ShepherdsFrancesco di Marco Marmitta da Parma (Italian; 1457–1505)ca. 1500Tempera a

Emperor Frederick II a.k.a Stupor Mundi is one of my favourites among Medieval rulers. I regard him

The Harley Psalter- folio 5v.The beautiful script of the Anglo Saxon scribe Eadui Basan.  Likely mad

Portable Qur’an Manuscript, Islamic ArtMedium: Ink and gold on paper; leather bindingGift of Joseph

Qur'an Manuscript, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic ArtGift of Philip Hofer, 1937Metropolitan Mus

Chesta Chatura Nayaka (The Hero Who is Clever in Actionattributed to Kripal of Nurpur, Pahari 1660–7

deathandmysticism:Wilhelm von Zimmern, Zimmerische Totentanz, ca. 1540-50

delphinidin4:Book of hours, Flanders c. 1485 (Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 469-470)

16th-century artillery manuals demonstrating how to use cats and birds to set fire to besieged citie

The Siyer-i Nebi manuscript; a Turkish epic about the life of Muhammad, illustrated by Lütfi Abdulla

wrestlersLuttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340British Library, Add 42130, fol. 54v

Tara (active 1557-1577) ‘Umar Defeats a Dragon’, from “Hamzanama”, 1557-58“T

bear clubGaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, Paris 15th centuryBnF, Français 616, fol. 27v

wild catsGaston Phébus, Le Livre de la chasse, Bruges ca. 1485Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 169, f

self-circumcision of AbrahamHours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480BnF, Latin 920, fol. 56v

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