Interesting surface crackling of thick, red #ink in this German terrier (list of land-holdings) compiled in Klein-Karben, Kloppenheim (1483), and now held by University of Victoria (🇨🇦). #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscripts 📜 📚
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Low-hanging fruit? #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Fragmentology
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October 1st! Time for a spot of #Halloween cooking… 🦴💀
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A 1201 charter of Hubert de Burgh—then Chamberlain to King John, later Chief Justiciar—bearing “the only known complete seal [from] his early career” ( https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/11170 ). Now held by my alma mater, University of Victoria.
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A Book of Hours illuminated by a female artist: the Carmelite nun Cornelia van Wulfschkerke. The « vierge » (‘virgin’) on f. 23v may be in her handwriting (Hainault?, c.1500; now held by Memorial University of Newfoundland). #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #MedievalArt #women #Nuntastic
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The #ink in this University of Victoria manuscript has partially flaked away, leaving faint ‘footprints’ where it ate into the surface of the #parchment. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #ManuscriptGhosts
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Flowers and green leaves in one of the #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada (held by University of Victoria). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Italy #ManuscriptArt #Shiny
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Though I live in the busy heart of Toronto, this time of year I awake to birdsong each morning. Perhaps my tiny choristers resemble these critters. (Troyes, 1460–1470; now: one of the #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada at my alma mater, University of Victoria). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Critters #MedievalAnimals #Birds #Birding
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A (much-faded) fragment of a Corpus Iuris Civilis (France, c.1250–1300) rescued from a binding, and now held by the University of Victoria. #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #MedievalManuscriptsInCanada #Fragmentology
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