Marginalia

Illuminated Manuscripts content «made of various parts, without any certain figure, or any other than accidental order, coherence, or proportion»

[Marginalia @MarginaliaMS]

Domine, labia mea aperies: et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam.
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«Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown»
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Folio mended with silk thread.
Rusticanus de sanctis, MS C 371, f. 108v, c. 14th century, Uppsala, University Library
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Happy World Brain Day!
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Trepanning
Anatomy of Guy of Pavia, c. 1345, Conde Museum, Chantilly, France
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[Marginalia @MarginaliaMS]

Hope
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Triumph of Death.
Psalter, c. 1st half of the 16th century, Harley 2953, f. 20, The British Library.
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Alternative Ending
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St. Catherine of Alexandria #BreakTheWheel @GallicaBnF
Jean Miélot, Vie de sainte Catherine d’Alexandrie, Ms. NAF 28650, f. 34r, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits.
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[Marginalia @MarginaliaMS]

«In order to lose themselves in God, the Sufis repeat their own name or the ninety-nine names of God until the names mean nothing anymore. I long to travel that path.»
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al-Qurʾān القرآن c. 11th AH / 17th CE, Ms. W.625, f. 333a, The Walters Art Museum.
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[Sarah J Biggs @SarahJBiggs]

YOU GUYS I’ve been invited to talk about medieval marginalia at my old high school; their history teacher read some of my @BLMedieval blog posts. Apparently things have changed massively since my Catholic school days and now monkey bottoms are welcomed with open arms.

[Marginalia @MarginaliaMS]

Happy day of the battle of the dwarfs!
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The massacre of the Innocents
Codex Egberti, c. 977 - 993, Ms. 24, f. 15v, Stadtbibliothek Trier
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[Marginalia @MarginaliaMS]

«The very instant that I saw you,
Did my heart fly at your service»
#MondayMotivation
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Aztec human sacrifice.
Codex Magliabecchi, c. 1550, CL. XIII. 3 (B. R. 232), f.90, National Central Library in Florence.
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[Marginalia @MarginaliaMS]

Hi! #MondayMotivation
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«Illustrations Of Penises And Testicles»
Book Of Medicines, c. 1425, Additional MS 29301, f. 19v, The British Library @BLMedieval
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[Marginalia @MarginaliaMS]

Happy #MothersDay
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«Nero looking on as the body of his mother Agrippina is disemboweled, in order to see the place where he was conceived, and praising her beauty.»
The Roman de la Rose, c 1490-c 1500, Harley MS 4425, f. 59v @BLMedieval https://t.co/mcz1tHhgWl

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We Can Do It! #InternationalWomensDay
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Veronice (or Laodice) of Cappadocia
Des cleres et nobles femmes, c. XV - XVI century, Français 599, f. 63r, Bibliothèque Nationale de France @GallicaBnF
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The Shape Of Water
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«Naked woman riding a phallic monster»
Decretum (cum apparatu Bartholomaei Brixiensis)., c. 1350-1360, Ms 5128, f. 100r, LYON, Bibliothèque municipale.
https://t.co/QGgVKajj4j

[Emily Steiner @PiersatPenn]

"Go play now, dear."

Rudolf von Ems, Weltchronik, Regensburg ca. 1400-1410
@GettyMuseum Ms. 33, fol. 249r

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Analytical cubism
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«in principio creavit Deus caelum et terram» Gen 1:1
Horae ad usum romanum dites Heures Henri II, Latin 1429, f. 3v, Bibliothèque nationale de France @GallicaBnF https://t.co/0keNZQaYnB

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«SOLOMON saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, That all knowledge was but remembrance; so Solomon giveth his sentence, That all novelty is but oblivion. »
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[Johan Oosterman @JohanOosterman]

Wow! Rebus giving the name of Rycard Shearman.
How? The letters 'ry', a car, a letter 'd', a pair of shears and a man.
@BLMedieval Royal 2A XVII

[Marginalia @MarginaliaMS]

#Love is... delicious
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Mussels, Marginalia.
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, c. 1440, MS M.917, f. 94, The Morgan Library & Museum @MorganLibrary

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#Love | Underground Lovers
«Office of the Dead. A Cemetery»
Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry , c. 1405–1408/9, The Cloisters Collection, 1954 (54.1.1) @metmuseum
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#Love | Sometimes a Grotesque Is Just a Grotesque
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«Naked woman riding a phallic monster»
Decretum (cum apparatu Bartholomaei Brixiensis)., c. 1350-1360, Ms 5128, f. 100r @BibLyon
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