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#ParkerAdvent2021 Day 9: #Reindeer, #squirrels & a hare run amok in the woodcuts of EP.Q.4, Parker’s copy of the early printed 'Ortus Sanitatis' (Strasbourg, Reinhard Beck, 1517)
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This week's #wordoftheweek is manicule 👉
The word 'manicula' (meaning 'little hand') refers to pointing hands often drawn in the margins of #manuscripts & #earlyprinted books to focus attention to a particular place in the text.
Our example is from a Greek gospel & lectionary.
#ParkerAdvent2020 Day 18: A spectacularly jaunty #reindeer for you from Parker’s copy of the 1517 ‘Ortus Sanitatis’ (Strasbourg, Reinhard Beck / EP.Q.4). I mean would you just *look* at that saunter?! Plus his awesome #squirrel sidekick...
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Wondering where people in the #16thcentury got there #medicines ? The title page of this rare book with health rules and recipes shows an 16th century #pharmacy . #earlyprinted #books
Woodcuts from a c. 1500 #EarlyPrinted copy of Martial d'Auvergne’s ‘Les vigilles de la mort de Charles VII’, a verse history of the Hundred Years War, written a few years’ prior. Featuring: lot of horses and swords: https://t.co/m3Kkcq1UL8
This #EarlyPrinted copy of a French translation of Lucan, Suetonius and Sallust is decked out with woodcuts both large and small. It was printed in Paris in 1490: https://t.co/EW4UOyUwfx
#Fragments of #medieval #manuscripts used as #pastedowns in #incunabula #binding:
Leaves from an early 13th-C #French #verse #romance (480 ll. of 'Partonopeus de Blois') recycled in this #earlyprinted book, #Parker's copy of Herolt's Sermons (Strasbourg, 1492)!
#manuscriptwaste
Woodcuts decorate this c. 1500 #EarlyPrinted text of a 'sacra rappresentazione', a piece of Italian vernacular religious theatre: https://t.co/1YessVfcHZ
Delighted to announce that our PhD student Delia Moldovan @MoldovanDelia was awarded an @IASWarwick Early Career Fellowship for a project on the imagery of #earlyprinted agricultural treatises. Cheers @MoldovanDelia!
It's not obvious at first-glance, but this #EarlyPrinted Roman Psalter with manuscript decoration is (just about) pocket-sized. At around 15 x 10 cm, it's not much taller or wider than any phone you might be viewing this Tweet on: https://t.co/re4AZxZgjJ
This #EarlyPrinted book dates from c. 1496, and gives the statutes passed under Henry VII in the Parliament of 1495. Matters covered include juries, vagabonds, weights and measures, the Pale of Calais, and treason. The treason act is still in force. https://t.co/EaBx3OMa96
Decorative initials added to an #EarlyPrinted (1481) edition of the Parisian Missal, in two volumes. This copy is sadly missing a pair of woodcuts which were printed with the first volume. https://t.co/3zksDMkDsh (part 1); https://t.co/2iNaw3suiq (part 2)
c. 1475 #EarlyPrinted edition of the 'Erotemata' of Manuel Chrysoloras. Chrysoloras was instrumental in introducing Greek scholarship to Renaissance Italy, and this book of Greek grammar was widely used. This edition includes a parallel Latin translation: https://t.co/tTkOIqBjyU
Decorative woodcuts from a 1488 #EarlyPrinted edition of part of the Lancelot-Grail cycle (Lancelot's life, the Knights of the Round Table, and the quest for the Grail). [Auct. 2Q 4.5]: https://t.co/xPrnkIkZgL
![BDLSS's tweet photo. Decorative woodcuts from a 1488 #EarlyPrinted edition of part of the Lancelot-Grail cycle (Lancelot's life, the Knights of the Round Table, and the quest for the Grail). [Auct. 2Q 4.5]: https://t.co/xPrnkIkZgL https://t.co/nPl8oNnhjc](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyUoGceWkAA7J6S.jpg)
![BDLSS's tweet photo. Decorative woodcuts from a 1488 #EarlyPrinted edition of part of the Lancelot-Grail cycle (Lancelot's life, the Knights of the Round Table, and the quest for the Grail). [Auct. 2Q 4.5]: https://t.co/xPrnkIkZgL https://t.co/nPl8oNnhjc](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyUoEpvX4AAr7G9.jpg)
![BDLSS's tweet photo. Decorative woodcuts from a 1488 #EarlyPrinted edition of part of the Lancelot-Grail cycle (Lancelot's life, the Knights of the Round Table, and the quest for the Grail). [Auct. 2Q 4.5]: https://t.co/xPrnkIkZgL https://t.co/nPl8oNnhjc](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyUoAqHXcAABfds.jpg)
![BDLSS's tweet photo. Decorative woodcuts from a 1488 #EarlyPrinted edition of part of the Lancelot-Grail cycle (Lancelot's life, the Knights of the Round Table, and the quest for the Grail). [Auct. 2Q 4.5]: https://t.co/xPrnkIkZgL https://t.co/nPl8oNnhjc](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyUn5LxWkAAg_2N.jpg)
Inhabited woodcut intials and title page with printer's device from a 1499 #EarlyPrinted copy of Propertius' Elegies [Auct. N 5.34]: https://t.co/eQOvfZLmlH
![BDLSS's tweet photo. Inhabited woodcut intials and title page with printer's device from a 1499 #EarlyPrinted copy of Propertius' Elegies [Auct. N 5.34]: https://t.co/eQOvfZLmlH https://t.co/rzwv6rSUyB](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ds8PzghX4AYkkgN.jpg)
![BDLSS's tweet photo. Inhabited woodcut intials and title page with printer's device from a 1499 #EarlyPrinted copy of Propertius' Elegies [Auct. N 5.34]: https://t.co/eQOvfZLmlH https://t.co/rzwv6rSUyB](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ds8OfefWwAEo1Ky.jpg)
![BDLSS's tweet photo. Inhabited woodcut intials and title page with printer's device from a 1499 #EarlyPrinted copy of Propertius' Elegies [Auct. N 5.34]: https://t.co/eQOvfZLmlH https://t.co/rzwv6rSUyB](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ds8OeH-XcAAopah.jpg)
This #WoodcutWednesday we're all about #elephants, #books and gorgeous #lectern #readingdesks c/o the title page of our #earlyprinted #Pliny Natural History, pr. Paris 1516 (EP.T.14)!
#rarebooks #earlyprint #printhistory #woodcuts #titlepage #bookhistory #historyofreading
This #EarlyPrinted book of hours, probably produced in Paris 1498/9, is dense with detailed woodcut decorations. Good thing Digital Bodleian (and @universalviewer) has deep zoom: https://t.co/LH7oecNBFf
Woodcuts from an #EarlyPrinted French copy of the 'Golden Legend', a popular collection of saints' lives by Jacobus de Voragine. These four are saints Nicholas, Eustace, Thomas (Beckett), and Catherine. The full book has many more: https://t.co/GqPgBLc1w9 [Douce 286]
![BDLSS's tweet photo. Woodcuts from an #EarlyPrinted French copy of the 'Golden Legend', a popular collection of saints' lives by Jacobus de Voragine. These four are saints Nicholas, Eustace, Thomas (Beckett), and Catherine. The full book has many more: https://t.co/GqPgBLc1w9 [Douce 286] https://t.co/Idr9GGsVMD](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dn28tUAXoAEW890.jpg)
![BDLSS's tweet photo. Woodcuts from an #EarlyPrinted French copy of the 'Golden Legend', a popular collection of saints' lives by Jacobus de Voragine. These four are saints Nicholas, Eustace, Thomas (Beckett), and Catherine. The full book has many more: https://t.co/GqPgBLc1w9 [Douce 286] https://t.co/Idr9GGsVMD](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dn28pDCXkAAMHMx.jpg)
![BDLSS's tweet photo. Woodcuts from an #EarlyPrinted French copy of the 'Golden Legend', a popular collection of saints' lives by Jacobus de Voragine. These four are saints Nicholas, Eustace, Thomas (Beckett), and Catherine. The full book has many more: https://t.co/GqPgBLc1w9 [Douce 286] https://t.co/Idr9GGsVMD](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dn28m-6XgAARJmy.jpg)
![BDLSS's tweet photo. Woodcuts from an #EarlyPrinted French copy of the 'Golden Legend', a popular collection of saints' lives by Jacobus de Voragine. These four are saints Nicholas, Eustace, Thomas (Beckett), and Catherine. The full book has many more: https://t.co/GqPgBLc1w9 [Douce 286] https://t.co/Idr9GGsVMD](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dn28kiyXcAEaRIY.jpg)
Flavio Marzo, Head of Cambridge Colleges’ Conservation Consortium, holds court to a captivated audience, utterly enthralled by his discussion of #conservation & #preservation of #SpecialCollections & the making of #medieval #manuscripts & #earlyprinted #books! #OpenCambridge2018
Illustrations from a #EarlyPrinted German blockbook of the Song of Songs.
15th century European blockbooks were usually short, relatively cheap productions of illustrated religious texts, and few survive in full. This is one of 8 held by the Bodleian: https://t.co/krd2XVpc4w
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