#illuminatedmanuscripts — Public Fediverse posts

University of Manchester: New online collection of Arabic manuscripts I: the Glorious Qurʿan. “A small selection of the John Rylands Library’s Arabic manuscripts is now available online for the first time via our Manchester Digital Collections (MDC) platform. Our new Arabic Manuscripts digital collection allows you to explore fully digitised copies alongside detailed descriptions.”

Yale Library: Yale Library announces the return of 12th-century manuscript to the Republic of Poland. “Yale University Library has announced the transfer of a liturgical manuscript known as the Cistercian Collectar (Beinecke MS 883), from the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to the Republic of Poland. The library welcomed representatives from Poland to New Haven on […]

Projektstart an der @bsbmuenchen: Ein DFG-gefördertes Projekt widmet sich dem Buchschmuck mitteleuropäischer Handschriften von ca. 1350 bis ins erste Viertel des 15. Jahrhunderts. 178 Handschriften werden systematisch erschlossen und als Volldigitalisate frei zugänglich gemacht.

Mehr zum Projekt im #Handschriftenportal 👉 https://www.handschriftenportal.de/projects?projectid=fbcf580b-a101-4e31-aff9-5706255a8e25

#Medievodons #Histodons #Manuscripts #illuminatedmanuscripts #buchschmuck

1. Used the #3GoodThings hashtag here:

https://mastodon.social/@courtcan/115667672723034356

...so I guess I'd better share 2 further #GoodThings.

2. I completed a #MedievalCats #drawing (ink and metallic gold pencil; see attached image) for my friend's birthday. She was delighted.

3. I made two phone calls that I've been putting off (because they're PHONE CALLS) for 5 weeks and 1 week, respectively.

#HumanArt
#HumanArtOnly
#NoAISlop
#InkDrawing
#IlluminatedCats
#IlluminatedManuscripts
#cats
#CatsOfMastodon
#catstodon

1. Used the #3GoodThings hashtag here:

https://mastodon.social/@courtcan/115667672723034356

...so I guess I'd better share 2 further #GoodThings.

2. I completed a #MedievalCats #drawing (ink and metallic gold pencil; see attached image) for my friend's birthday. She was delighted.

3. I made two phone calls that I've been putting off (because they're PHONE CALLS) for 5 weeks and 1 week, respectively.

#HumanArt
#HumanArtOnly
#NoAISlop
#InkDrawing
#IlluminatedCats
#IlluminatedManuscripts
#cats
#CatsOfMastodon
#catstodon

1. Used the #3GoodThings hashtag here:

https://mastodon.social/@courtcan/115667672723034356

...so I guess I'd better share 2 further #GoodThings.

2. I completed a #MedievalCats #drawing (ink and metallic gold pencil; see attached image) for my friend's birthday. She was delighted.

3. I made two phone calls that I've been putting off (because they're PHONE CALLS) for 5 weeks and 1 week, respectively.

#HumanArt
#HumanArtOnly
#NoAISlop
#InkDrawing
#IlluminatedCats
#IlluminatedManuscripts
#cats
#CatsOfMastodon
#catstodon

1. Used the #3GoodThings hashtag here:

https://mastodon.social/@courtcan/115667672723034356

...so I guess I'd better share 2 further #GoodThings.

2. I completed a #MedievalCats #drawing (ink and metallic gold pencil; see attached image) for my friend's birthday. She was delighted.

3. I made two phone calls that I've been putting off (because they're PHONE CALLS) for 5 weeks and 1 week, respectively.

#HumanArt
#HumanArtOnly
#NoAISlop
#InkDrawing
#IlluminatedCats
#IlluminatedManuscripts
#cats
#CatsOfMastodon
#catstodon

1. Used the #3GoodThings hashtag here:

https://mastodon.social/@courtcan/115667672723034356

...so I guess I'd better share 2 further #GoodThings.

2. I completed a #MedievalCats #drawing (ink and metallic gold pencil; see attached image) for my friend's birthday. She was delighted.

3. I made two phone calls that I've been putting off (because they're PHONE CALLS) for 5 weeks and 1 week, respectively.

#HumanArt
#HumanArtOnly
#NoAISlop
#InkDrawing
#IlluminatedCats
#IlluminatedManuscripts
#cats
#CatsOfMastodon
#catstodon

Johns Hopkins Magazine: A medieval art form, digitized . “Already, two of the Stern Center’s world-renowned collections of early books have largely been digitized… One of these, Women of the Book, features 2,000-plus books and manuscripts about women dedicated to the life of the mind: nuns, female saints, healers, and miracle workers living between 1450 and 1800. Another, the Bibliotheca […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/24/johns-hopkins-magazine-a-medieval-art-form-digitized/

ANSA, and machine-translated from Italian: The Ambrosiana’s Treasure of Arabic Manuscripts Goes Digital. “A precious and rare Koran on parchment, oblong, in Sufi script dating back to the 8th-9th century with gold miniatures, but also a manuscript that brings together the four gospels copied in the monastery of Sant’Antonio in 1280 from a copy made from the original text by the translator Abu […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/ansa-the-ambrosianas-treasure-of-arabic-manuscripts-goes-digital/

William #Byrd: Psalm 6, Lord in thy rage.
From Songs of Sundry Natures, 1589.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: tenor viol

#Psalm 6 is the first of the 7 penitential psalms, and is often found in books of hours accompanied by an image of the King David, kneeling in prayer with his #harp set aside.

Image: page from an #illuminatedmanuscript showing the penitent David, and the #Latin words of Psalm 6, Domine ne in furore.
From Aussem Hours, #16thCentury, W.437.45R

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICNMGlfcnGc&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#earlymusic
#earlymodern
#Tudors
#illuminatedmanuscripts
#sheetmusic
#bookofhours
#tudor
#WilliamByrd
#Elizabethan
#ElizabethI
#penitentialpsalms
#KingDavid
#illumination
#history
#renaissance
#histodon
#histodons
#renaissancemusic
@histodons
@histodon
@earlymodern
@earlymusic

Comic art in 1000 year old illuminated manuscripts and tapestries? See how I referenced these works as visual meta-text in the @neilhimself CHIVALRY graphic novel from Dark Horse Comics. https://at.tumblr.com/colleendoran/neil-gaimans-chivalry-from-illuminated/edqbhr9ullaf Ask for it at your bookstore! amzn.to/3Y1GXXw #neilgaiman #chivalry #darkhorsecomics #illuminatedmanuscripts #comics