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Visiting the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge today, taking in (you guessed it) yet more Statuta Angliæ — including one which features this rather unhappy little fellow. 😕
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Detail of the lower left corner of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 85 recto in Cambridge, Trinity College, manuscript O.7.27. 3 lines of French, followed by 2 larger heading lines of Latin, then 4 more lines of Latin, all copied in brown ink. The bottom-most 4 lines are indented to accommodate an enlarged decorative initial ‘C’ painted in pink atop a square blue background. Bars of pink, blue, green, and gold extend from the background to form a border around the text. Green and orange leaves spring from the bars. The initial ‘C’ is almost entirely infilled with a background of smoothly burnished, shining gold leaf. The non-gilded negative space forms the shape of a standing monk or friar, depicted in profile, his features and the draping of his robes drawn in with black ink. The tiny fellow gestures towards the adjacent text, gazing upon it morosely.
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    @SJLahey @bookhistodons @medievodons Great alt text description!! Learned much by reading it. Thank you

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    35 digitized by the this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week22.html includes a lot of music, some more unidentified German, De reparatione Lapsi by both Chrysostom and Bacharius, some faded 9th C endleaves and More!
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    A Page of 18th C music from Chig.Q.VII.169 f.1v

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    @aaronm @bookhistodons @medievodons how detailed do you want the descriptions? There’s a Constitution and ordo for the women’s house of st Catherine’s in Augsburg in this set, for example — or do you want formal titles? I can do a couple of German text IDs I the morning…

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    A in one of the of Pembroke College, Cambridge (now held at Cambridge University Library).
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    Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 44 verso in Cambridge, Pembroke College manuscript 301. The gold-haloed head of an evangelist peeks up from the lower edge of the image. Above this curve 2 concentric arches linked together by a decorative rosette, all rendered in shiny gold leaf with burgundy, pine, and cobalt paints. In front of the arches, springing across the page, stretches a yellow lion sporting green and red wings and a glittering halo of burnished gold. Rearing up on hind legs, the beast grasps a golden book in its front paws, and throws back its head to sound the long blue trumpet extending from its mouth.
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    I didn't know Dan Aykroyd was a Saint.

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    Lovely portrait of a woman tucked away in a Statuta Angliæ manuscript from Cambridge University Library.
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    Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 243 verso in Cambridge, University Library, manuscript Mm.5.19. At right, the beginning of 12 lines of French text copied in dark brown ink with the 1st 3 lines indented to create space for an added decorative initial ‘N’, skilfully drawn in dark brown ink. The initial is ornamented with very fine pen-work swirling out into the margin to form leaves and tendrils. Several of the lines extend up into the top margin where they coalesce into a small, line-drawn portrait of a woman in three-quarter profile with her hair coiffed.
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    Lovely detail, although she seems to be standing atop a castle looking in the distance with a sense of longing... I wonder who she was in real life.

    Also, what's the irregular blob with biological aspect and interstitial spider webs below her, and to the left of the big letter?

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    Biblically-accurate ? 👀
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    Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 128 recto in Cambridge, University Library, Manuscript Ll.4.18. Visible is the start of 9 lines of Latin text copied in dark brown ink, the 1st and 8th lines opening with pilcrows or paragraph marks added in red ink, the 5th line opening with another pilcrow added in blue ink. Above all this, in the topmost margin of the leaf, someone has sketched a manicule—a pointing hand or glove typically used to draw attention to a passage—in black ink. This manicule takes the shape of a glove pointing down towards the text with thumb and index finger. The back of the glove is ornamented with a pattern probably intended to represent a flower, but resembling a cluster of 4 eyes.
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    @KarenStrickholm @bookhistodons @histodons It’s a leaf in a carefully-copied collection of medieval English common law texts. A reader added the manicule to mark a passage of interest. 😊

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    Oh I see, so a different person made the "manicule" to the margin, probably later in time. Manicule is not in dictionary dot com, but once again, has me covered!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicule

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    Only 6 this week from the https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week26.html

    Includes a famous palimpsest, a multi-voice Mass, with former binding fragments in a second volume, some songs, a table for Paschal calculations and a volume from University of Würzburg.... and no more
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    A page of white note music from Capp.Sist.155 pt a, this is f8v. There are three large capitol Gs starting the various voices

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    78 from this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week25.html
    TONS more 17th and 18th C music, a 1562 Atlas, another volume of the 1701 liturgical set, more German volumes, and more!
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    The words "-moriam relinquas immortalem" in a humanist script on an otherwise blank page. from Urb.lat.1182 f.153v

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    Decorated initials: notorious site of interspecies struggle since the 11th century. 😱
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    Detail of a medieval manuscript leaf: folio 56 recto in Cambridge, University Library, manuscript Ff.3.9. The parchment page bears a 2 line Latin heading in red ink, followed by a dozen more lines of Latin in black ink. The red and first 8 black lines have been indented to accommodate a huge painted initial ‘Q’. The counter (or rounded space) of the letter is built up of entwined blue vines against a background of scarlet. Lush leaves of sage green, orange, and pink curl from the ends of the vines. Gambolling amidst the vines are small strange creatures: a green raptor with apricot wings; a rose and tangerine foxlike beast with olive–azure wings, legs, and tail; and a salmon-hued cat or rabbit with orange ears and sage-green face. At right, forming the tail of the ‘Q’, an indigo-coated wolf crouches between the lines of text. Grasping 1 of the cat–rabbit’s hind legs in its jaws, it strives to pull the scrabbling creature out from the vines. Hold on tight, critter!
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    Back to full speed, 79 new from the this week
    https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week24.html
    a lot of 17th and 18th C music, some c. 1701 Sistine stuff, more German and more Avvisi ( a complex early sort of journalism https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3609 )
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    A page with a large miniature at top and three lines of music on 4-bar staves. Text is a roman hand. from Capp.sist.390 f.2r

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    56 new from the this week

    https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week23.html

    Includes a 15th C Petrarch, Dati's La Sfera (with the Tower), a 16th C Arabic Diatessaron, many song books from Chigi, a 16th C Ge'ez Gospel, some early Greek, a Maronite Office... and more!
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    A page of 16th C arabic from Borg.ar.250, f.2r. It has a decorated headpiece and gold flower borders
    A page of Italian poetry in a humanist hand, three stanzas of 8 lines each, starting with a large capitol. To the right is a drawing of a large tower. From Barb.lat.4048, f.18r

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    Back in Cambridge University Library today, taking in more medieval common .
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    Detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 8 recto in Cambridge, University Library, manuscript Ee.6.33. The photo is taken on a slight angle, looking up and across the page from towards the lower left corner. Visible are 5 lines of Latin copied in dark brown ink, followed by 2 lines copied in a larger display script and highlighted with dabs of red ink, then another 8 lines in dark brown ink. In this last section, the first 5 lines are indented to accommodate an enlarged initial ‘E’ for ‘Edwardus’. Rendered in red ink by a less expert hand, the initial is ornamented with an abstract pattern of squiggly red lines.
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    In which Georgi Parpulov explores the question “To Whom Do Belong?” https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/to-whom-do-manuscripts-belong/
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    ‘M’ for the Merry Month of May in a Cambridge University Library statute book.
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    Detail of a medieval manuscript leaf: folio 61 recto in Cambridge, University Library, manuscript Ll.4.17. Visible are 10 lines of Latin script copied in black ink. 2 of the lines are copied in slightly larger display letters and underlined with red ink. Below these, the next 3 lines of text are indented to accommodate an enlarged, decorative initial ‘M’. The initial is painted in blue and red, and infilled with an ornamental network of fine, scrolling pen-work lines in red ink. The pen-work spills out of the initial into the empty margin at the left of the page.
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    Only 19 digitized by the this week, perhaps due to Pentecost
    https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week20.html
    Includes a 17th C polyphonic liturgy, a Humanist Civitate Dei, several volumes of sermons, part of a Speculum Historiale and several German.... books (uncatalogued and unidentifiable by me)
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    Capp.Sist.99 f.20v. The start of a polyphonic Te Deum, the page has 3 blocks of 2 staves each, each starting with a large initial T

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    Looking at with my students today. This is a stunning frontispiece from @subugoe Cod MS arab. 190, containing the Kitāb al-wāfīya fi šarḥ al-kāfīya from 1478, collated with the author’s own copy. @historikerinnen @medievodons @histodons

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