Medieval books

An introduction to medieval scripts — […]

An introduction to medieval scripts

Listening to the medieval book — […]

Listening to the medieval book

Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (detail) — […]

A medieval textbook

Novgorod, Museum of History, birch bark strip 202, from pupil Onfim, dated 1240-1260 — […]

Medieval notepads

Leeuwarden, Tresoar, 45HS, fol. 45r (c. 1100), (photo: Erik Kwakkel) — […]

The Medieval origins of the modern footnote

Bookcases in Hereford Chained Library — […]

Finding books

A medieval revolving bookmark (sold at Sotheby’s, July 5, 2005, lot 16) — […]

Smart bookmarks

Marginal bracket in the shape of an octopus (with five legs), Cicero, Paradoxa stoicorum, 14th century, Berkeley, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 85, fol. 1v — […]

Getting personal in the margins

Christine de Pisan in her study. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 9009-11 — […]

The medieval desktop

Manicula with the body of a dragon. Marginal Sketches, in A Volume Of Treatises On Natural Science, Philosophy, And Mathematics, c. 1300, London, British Library, Royal MS 12 E.xxv, fol. 23r — […]

Using the book: an introduction

London, British Library, Add. 89000, 7th century. The St Cuthbert Gospel (formerly known as the Stonyhurst Gospel) is the oldest intact European book—i.e. still in its original binding. — […]

Medieval books in leather (and other materials)

Book clasp in shape of hand, 18th century (?), (source: Daniel Crouch Rare Books) — […]

Clasps: hugging a medieval book

Leiden, University Library, BPL MS 2778 (photo: Giulio Menna) — […]

Binding the book

Letter K: from the “Macclesfield Alphabet Book,” 15th-16th century, London, British Library, Add. MS 88887, fol. 17r — […]

Medieval supermodels

Gilding, Leiden, University Library, VLQ MS 4, 14th century (photo: Giulio Menna) — […]

Decorating the book

Advertisement sheet from Herman Strepel, professional scribe in Münster, The Hague, Royal Library, 76 D MS 45, c. 1447 — […]

Making books for profit in medieval times

Jean le Tavernier, Portrait of Jean Miélot in his workshop, after 1456, Miracles de Notre Dame, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 9198 — […]

Words, words, words: medieval handwriting

Into a letter P: St Paul at the desk with ruled quire, writing, Hamburg Bible, 1255, Denmark, The Royal Library, MS GKS 4 2°, vol. III, f. 125r — […]

The work of the scribe

The golden letters in this manuscript were stolen by a thief in the past, who cut them out with a knife. Leiden, University Library, BPL MS 59, 14th century (photo: Erik Kwakkel) — […]

Skins and scraps

"Through-view" of an animal head initial. Eastern France, the first third of the ninth century (Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Nat. MS 1, fol. 25v and 26v). — […]

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