In this week’s blog Mary McClure, a final year Art History and Medieval History student, discusses the Book of Hours that formed the basis of… Read More »Mary’s dissertation uses one of our beautiful manuscripts
For the final inspiring illustration of this 52-week series, it could be argued that we have saved the best for the last. This is a… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 52: the St Andrews Psalter
This very pretty little prayer book was probably part of a book of hours originally; these contained simplified versions of church liturgy to facilitate private… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 16: the Office for the Dead with other devotional works
I’ve selected one of the true beauties of our collections for the second-to-last binding post of this series. It is no surprise that many of… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 51: a beautiful 19th century hand-painted and lacquered Qur’an
As we begin to round out our last 10 binding posts, it’s time to start getting out the treasures! This week’s binding feature is one… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 42: 15th century Qur’an bound in contemporary gold-stamped goatskin
In January 2012, we posted a plea for help in identifying a motif found in one of our medieval manuscripts: msBR65.A9S2 – a Pseudo-Augustinian Sermones… Read More »A conundrum solved, collectively: a 15th century Italian manuscript identified
***For a full update on this conundrum, see this post from 12 March 2012.*** This is the first folio of a beautiful, mid 14th century… Read More »Cataloguer’s conundrum: Can anyone identify this 14th century Italian motif?
Fragment of a 14th century Gospel manuscript found in 16th century German binding As I was searching through the stacks at our new storage facility… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 13
On the trail of the elusive John Murray This weeks fantastic binding is included in this longer post about the search for an unknown former… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 4
