For #ManuscriptMonday:
Gallican Psalter w/ Canticles, Augsburg, Germany, c.1520, f.115v, border decoration: medallion w/ King David brought before Saul; panel w/ donkey, stag, lion, bear, ram, rodents, lizard (or salamander?)...and a BIG snail 🐌
Libary Company of Philadelphia collection: https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0012/html/lcp_ms04.html#a115v

It's #HedgehogWeek! 🦔(+ #ManuscriptMonday)
The #hedgehog has a fun #bestiary story - it knocks down fruit then rolls around & collects them on its spines to bring home to its family. Fruit kebobs to go!
1 BM Douai MS 711 (De Natura animalium) f. 23v
2 BnF fr.14969 (Bestiaire of Guillaume le Clerc) f. 21v
3 BL Royal MS 12 F XIII (Rochester Bestiary) f. 45r
#HedgehogAwarenessWeek

@LeMoustier there's a list of archaeologists on mastodon here: https://stark1tty.github.io/Mastodon-Archaeology/
Do you follow the hastags or just look for them as on twitter? Here are the hashtags I follow: #DoctorWho #mottemonday #FlintFriday #rugby #terrypratchett #沖縄 #UtakiWednesday #RyukyuanSpringThursday #romanroadsfriday #mammothmonday #FindsFriday #romansitesaturday #FossilFriday #waterfallwednesday #astrotuesday #MosaicMonday #archeologie #mercredisarcheo #JEArcheo #eaa2023 #manuscriptmonday #okinawa

It's #Purim today, so her's a page from the #Ferrara Book of #Esther.
Moshe ben Avraham Pascarol, 1617
#otd #onthisday #manuscriptmonday #manuscriptmondays #manuscript #scroll #judaica #judaicaart #earlymodern #17thCentury #seventeenthcentury #illuminatedmanuscript #sephardi #sephardic #chagpurimsameach #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

RT @BL_Music_Colls
For #ManuscriptMonday, here's one of the @britishlibrary's most beautifully written music manuscripts. 'My Ladye Nevells Booke' contains keyboard music by William Byrd and was dedicated to Elizabeth Nevell of Billingbere, Berkshire.

Digitised copy: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=ms_mus._1591_f001r

Tell-All Volvelle?

Newly re-cataloged to include the movable bits! This hand-drawn "Viennese Oracle" dial points you to one of 16 riddles and presumably, THE TRUTH!
#ManuscriptMonday #interactive
#NewberryLibrary (Case Wing MS folio ZW 756 .D566)

Wisdom of the Ages
Looks like the book is getting a ringing endorsement from Athena and her owl!

Let's Play 16 Questions
The topics range widely...
So, where DOES friendship come from? Clearly by playing with this book together!

@Paazraaf Very archaeology-biased but I also follow #ManuscriptMonday #MedievalMonday #RuinedPrioryFriday #HillsfortWednesday #EpigraphyTuesday and #HadrianWallWednesday 😉

Woke Up Like This

#mood #dragon #hybrid #MedievalArt #ManuscriptMonday #bookstodon

#NewberryLibrary (Case MS 102.2)

#ManuscriptMonday and #MedievalMonday for #LunarNewYear #YearOfTheRabbit: a hill full of #rabbits from The Lutterell Psalter,
British Library Add. MS 42130, folio 176v. https://bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_42130

Wir ❤️ Handschriften.
#TagderHandschrift
#ManuscriptMonday
#Originalerhalt

Two Heads (of State)
Are Better Than One

Isabella Clara Eugenia and her husband Albert BOTH grace this well-used seal and are named above! She's the slightly taller figure on the right. They were co-governing the Spanish Netherlands in 1614 when this document was signed... She appears to be taller than him in almost all portraits, except when forced to sit down!

#NewberryLibrary #NewAcq #gift #ManuscriptMonday

RT @red_loeb@twitter.com

Mappa Mundi for #ManuscriptMonday

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia, translated by Jacobus Angelus; 15th century (second half); Italy (Florence); f.74v @GallicaBnF@twitter.com
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8454687p.image

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/red_loeb/status/1604794256517890048

RT @red_loeb
Mappa Mundi for #ManuscriptMonday

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia, translated by Jacobus Angelus; 15th century (second half); Italy (Florence); f.74v @GallicaBnF
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8454687p.image

RT @red_loeb@twitter.com

The lion is at the base of this golden Menorah.
#ManuscriptMonday
Bodleian Library, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.120v @BDLSS@twitter.com
https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/?iiif-content=https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/manifest/8c264b23-f6cc-4f18-98cf-9d75f7175b54.json#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=245&r=0&xywh=0%2C-1003%2C5154%2C8928

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/red_loeb/status/1602262236298416130

RT @red_loeb@twitter.com

Stay at home in the warm with your pets and some manuscripts.
#ManuscriptMonday
BL Add 19776; the 'Coburg Pentateuch'; 14th century; Germany, Central (Coburg); f.54v @BLMedieval@twitter.com
https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19776

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/red_loeb/status/1602244199872618496

RT @TCDResearchColl@twitter.com

For #ManuscriptMonday we have a thread from the Carnegie Project Team! Over the last week they have had delight in working with a few manuscripts which still have their Medieval bindings. TCD MS 100 and TCD MS 101! #VirtualTrinityLibrary #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalBinding

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TCDResearchColl/status/1599738243066384384

Scrapbooking Century

J. O. Westwood wrote an 1846 book on manuscript illumination, but this larger volume full of drawn and printed reproductions paints a much messier picture of his writing process!

#NewberryLibrary (Case W 915 .964)
#ManuscriptMonday

Protection Racket?

What are THOSE up at the top of this enormous choirbook?

#NewberryLibrary #ManuscriptMonday (Case MS oversize 87)

Looks like leftover stitching from one of the largest silk curtains I've ever (not) seen! And many of the initials are faking us out with faux stitching around the edges!

There are also scads of fabric tabs marking out different sections of the book, and that IHS sun at the end (next to another set of tabs) is a doozy!

RT @DrKarrSchmidt@twitter.com

Loving That Lute ❤️

1590s German lute book, with some very emoticon-like letters and a recycled binding!

#NewberryLibrary (Case MS folio VM 1734.5 .G37)
#ManuscriptMonday
#bindingwaste #heart
@FragmentariumMS@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DrKarrSchmidt/status/1592155398424842241

RT @britishlibrary
This mappa mundi is one of the earliest surviving maps of the world 🗺️

Sites of important Biblical events help to identify some regions. Look closely and you can spot a representation of Noah’s Ark: https://bit.ly/3NQ15rv

📜Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1

#ManuscriptMonday