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JumblePublishing<p>Panthers and dragons formed a dichotomy in medieval manuscripts with panthers representing Christ and dragons the devil. In most depictions of the beasts together, the dragon hides from the panther as in this image from the 12th century. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dragons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dragons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/panthers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>panthers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dragon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dragon</span></a></p>
JumblePublishing<p>Dragons are shown with and without wings and also seem to be shown with and without second heads on their tails. This lovely winged dragon is from a 1278-1300 Franco-Flemish bestiary. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dragons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dragons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dragon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dragon</span></a></p>
JumblePublishing<p>Centaurs are usually depicted as male so this female centaur nursing her child is unusual. It is again from the Rutland Psalter (dated around 1260). <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/centaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>centaur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/centaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>centaurs</span></a></p>
JumblePublishing<p>Centaurs are a half-man, half-horse hybrid with a very long history in mythology. In medieval mythology, they represented the sin of hypocrisy as their front was human but their rear was animal. Image from an English Herbal dating to c1000-1025. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/centaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>centaur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/centaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>centaurs</span></a></p>
JumblePublishing<p>This basilisk from another English bestiary, dated 1200-1225, has just struck a victim dead and is looking at a weasel, the only animal considered able to kill it at the time. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bestiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bestiary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/basilisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basilisk</span></a></p>
JumblePublishing<p>This week we're focusing on basilisks starting with this King of the Basilisks being paid homage by lesser snakes from an English bestiary dated 1225-1250. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bestiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bestiary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/basilisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basilisk</span></a></p>
JumblePublishing<p>This image from the Ashmole Bestiary, dated to the early 13th century, shows the phoenix on its funeral pyre. The pyre is lit by the rays of the sun. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/phoenix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phoenix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalart</span></a></p>
JumblePublishing<p>This detail of the caladrius is from a French manuscript dated around 1285. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/caladrius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>caladrius</span></a></p>
JumblePublishing<p>This faintly green caladrius has indicated that the matching patient will recover despite how alarmed both look. It is from an English bestiary from about 1170. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/caladrius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>caladrius</span></a></p>
JumblePublishing<p>If the caladrius looked towards its patient, it was thought the patient would live. If it looked away, the patient would die. This image from a French manuscript, dated around 1445, shows the physician and the caladrius with both options. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/caladrius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>caladrius</span></a></p>
Art History Animalia<p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/WorldOtterDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldOtterDay</span></a> musical entertainment:<br>Bagpiping <a href="https://historians.social/tags/otter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>otter</span></a> in the margin of the Book of Hours, Lyon, c.1505-10; Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 6881, fol. 63v.<br><a href="https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md32d791w48g" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/m</span><span class="invisible">d32d791w48g</span></a><br><a href="https://historians.social/tags/MedievalMarginalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalMarginalia</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/MedievalManuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalManuscripts</span></a></p>
Art History Animalia<p>A belated <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cat</span></a> for <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Caturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caturday</span></a> and an early <a href="https://historians.social/tags/snail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>snail</span></a> for a <a href="https://historians.social/tags/SlowSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SlowSunday</span></a> :<br>Cat in a snail shell from the Book of Hours, Use of Maastricht (‘The Maastricht Hours’), Stowe MS 17 f.185<br>Netherlands, S. (Liège), 1st quarter 14th c.<br>British Library collection<br><a href="https://historians.social/tags/CatsInArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CatsInArt</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/MedievalManuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalManuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/MedievalMarginalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalMarginalia</span></a></p>
JumblePublishing<p>This week's medieval marginalia is focusing on clergy hybrids starting with this Yoda-like monk from the 14th century Smithfield Decretals (a copy of canon law decrees compiled for Pope Gregory IX). <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmarginalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmarginalia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalyoda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalyoda</span></a></p>
JumblePublishing<p>The first known depiction of murderous rabbits in medieval manuscripts is from a German manuscript, the Arnsteini Passional, which shows two rabbits hanging a hunter. The rabbits, like yesterday's image, look incredibly happy. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalrabbits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalrabbits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rabbits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rabbits</span></a></p>
Of Bookish Things<p>Women Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously Thought</p><p>New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medieval</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Manuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalBooks</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalScribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalScribes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalWomen</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalManuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalManuscripts</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Women_Scribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Women_Scribes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Between400And1500CE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Between400And1500CE</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/women-played-a-more-important-role-in-copying-medieval-manuscripts-than-previously-thought-180986294/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/</span><span class="invisible">women-played-a-more-important-role-in-copying-medieval-manuscripts-than-previously-thought-180986294/</span></a></p>
Colleen Theisen<p>Very satisfying parchment-like interactive book with reproductions of medieval manuscript leaves at the Adler Planetarium.<br><a href="https://glammr.us/tags/SpecialCollections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpecialCollections</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/museums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>museums</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/MedievalManuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalManuscripts</span></a></p>
Medievalists.net<p>Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry to Be Displayed in a Rare Landmark Exhibition <a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/tres-riches-heures-du-duc-de-berry-to-be-displayed-in-a-rare-landmark-exhibition/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">medievalists.net/2025/01/tres-</span><span class="invisible">riches-heures-du-duc-de-berry-to-be-displayed-in-a-rare-landmark-exhibition/</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/MedievalManuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalManuscripts</span></a></p>
Medievalists.net<p>5 Surprising Places Medieval Manuscripts Were Found <a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/surprising-places-medieval-manuscripts-found/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">medievalists.net/2024/12/surpr</span><span class="invisible">ising-places-medieval-manuscripts-found/</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/MedievalManuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalManuscripts</span></a></p>
Medievalists.net<p>Over 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts May Have Been Copied by Women <a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/110000-medieval-manuscripts-women/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">medievalists.net/2025/03/11000</span><span class="invisible">0-medieval-manuscripts-women/</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medieval</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/medievalwomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalwomen</span></a></p>
Medievalists.net<p>Rare Medieval Manuscripts Take Center Stage at TEFAF Maastricht 2025 <a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/rare-medieval-manuscripts-take-center-stage-at-tefaf-maastricht-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">medievalists.net/2025/02/rare-</span><span class="invisible">medieval-manuscripts-take-center-stage-at-tefaf-maastricht-2025/</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TEFAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEFAF</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/medievalmanuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medievalmanuscripts</span></a></p>
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