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And breathe!
The elderly spine of this binding is a little more comfortable after conservation. The treatment was a compromise, but avoided a very interventive rebinding.
@CBL_Dublin Is 1561 📚(Qur’an, dated 1125/ 1713, Iran)
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Modest little binding with some jaw-dropping doublures.
Thank you, @CBL_Dublin Per 239, for bringing a bit of bravura to Wednesday.
Persian shagreen binding with leather filigree and inlay doublures, Iran, 988/ 1572 📚🤩 #midweekmanuscript
Detail of the Prophet’s sandal for #Hajj
@CBL_Dublin Ar 3161, Three texts on the prophet by al-Rassa’ (d. 1489) and al-Suyuti (d. 1505)
@CBL_Dublin Ar 3161, dated 1040/ 1630-31
#IslamicManuscripts #midweekmanuscript #ChesterBeatty #Tunisia #manuscriptMonday
A glorious Tunisian manuscript to brighten your day.
Three texts on the prophet by al-Rassa’ (d. 1489) and al-Suyuti (d. 1505)
@CBL_Dublin Ar 3161, dated 1040/ 1630-31
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#هويه_افريقيا
#افريقيا_التاريخ_المدفون
#غرب_افريقيا
المجموعات المفقودة بما في ذلك هذه الأشياء الجميلة المعروضة حاليًا.
مخطوطة #الكنز الذهبي للصلاة على النبي ، كنوز الأسرار في الصلاة على المختار ، CBL Ar 5570 ، القرن التاسع عشر ، غرب إفريقيا.#midweekManuscript
Missing collections @CBL_Dublin including these lovely things which are currently on display.
📚The Golden Treasure of Prayers for the Prophet, Kunuz al-asrar fi al-salat ‘ala al-mukhtar, CBL Ar 5570, 19th century, West Africa. #midweekManuscript
This beautiful Mamluk binding has had a hard life, but the carefully pressure tooled mandorla is still pristine. There’s a lovely title on the tail edge too 📚 @CBL_Dublin Ar 5511, The Shining Lamp, 875/1471 #MidweekMandorla #MidweekManuscript
'Before you grapple at me with your hooks
let one of you come forth to hear me out.
Then take counsel, whether to use your claws'
Virgil is pictured trying to persuade a group of demons to allow them safe passage through this area 😈👿
#midweekmanuscript #badtourguides #demons
"That is Megaera on the left. On the right
Alecto wails. In the middle
is Tisiphone.' And with that he fell silent."
The Furies try to halt Dante's journey, calling upon Medusa to turn him to stone. Virgil puts his hands over Dante's eyes to protect him.
#midweekmanuscript
"Midway in the journey of our life
I came to myself in a dark wood
for the straight way was lost" (translation by Hollander)
Inferno 1 marks the beginning of Dante's journey, as Virgil appears to save him and promises to guide him through the afterlife
#midweekmanuscript #Dante
It's alive! 🦊🐔⛪️
📽️MS. Douce 360, fol. 066v
#MidweekManuscript #Renart #ReynardtheFox #medievaltwitter #MonasticMachinations
Not quite #miniature but certainly rather tiny. This gorgeously gilded Qur’an belonged to Wazir Ali Khan (1780—1817), the fourth Nawab of Oudh (21 September 1797 to 21 January 1798) @CBL_Dublin Is 1574, India 📚 #IslamicManuscripts #IndianManuscripts #MidweekManuscript
Decorated papers are hugely varied in #Islamicmanuscripts 📚This is an olive green Chinese paper which became popular in prestige manuscripts during the Timurid period @CBL_Dublin Per 294, an anthology of six Persian poets, 1430-40, Shiraz #midweekmanuscript #CBLconservation
It’s tonight! Join us at 6pm for
Medieval textual transmission: A Dialogue
With Prof Michael G Sargent (CUNY) & Dr Michael Johnston (Purdue), chaired by Dr Ryan Perry (Kent)
There’s still time to request the Zoom link, too - just send us a DM!
#medieval #midweekmanuscript
Hang on in there little endband! The binding of this Javanese ms is completely detached but the endband is staying strong. I’ve been taking photos for online training & this falls under the category ‘historic details you don’t want to loose’!
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A few of the beautiful openings from @CBL_Dublin T 464, a book of prayers, 1213/ 1798, probably arranged by the scribe Muhammad Amin al-Rushdi, known as Hariz al-Qur’an if Adrianople #midweekmanuscript
Doors and windows onto a murder (Iraj), a King (Manuchihr), the early 14th century (and the weekend?) for this #midweekManuscript @CBL_Dublin Per 111.3 & .4, Shahnama, c.1330, Tabriz, Iran 📚 #GreatMongolShahnama #DemotteShahnama #Ilkhanid
This is just too cute
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Pressure tooled and filigree #Mandorla on the upper board, envelope flap and doublure of this #midweekmanuscript (@CBL_Dublin Ar 3476, Fusul al-ihkam fi usul al-ahkam, by al-Marghinani, dated 890/1485) #Islamicmanuscripts
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