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Miniature of Sinon and the Trojan Horse, from the Vergilius Romanus, a manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, early 5th century. A miniature (from the Latin verb miniare, "to colour with minium", a red lead [1]) is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment.
Brought by Cèzar de Nostre-Dame to cardinal Maffeo Barberini) It comprises 80 drawings and/or watercolored images that some book authors link to Catholic Popes in the future. There are several images with probable astrological (astronomical dating) that are very cryptic.
Fragmentarium (Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments) is an online database to collect and collate fragments of medieval manuscripts making them available to researchers, collectors and historians worldwide.
Manuscript preservation may also take the form of digital archiving, which is particularly useful for vulnerable manuscripts and fragments susceptible to deterioration such as the burnt fragments extant from the Cotton library fire which have now been recorded using multispectral imaging by the British Library. [19]
Leaf from a Gradual, c, 1450–1475, Italy; New York, Columbia University, Plimpton MS 040A. Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a non-profit, tax-exempt consortium of American libraries with collections of medieval and early modern manuscripts, that is, handwritten books made in the traditions of the world's scribal cultures.
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations.Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers and liturgical books such as psalters and courtly literature, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws ...
Medieval art is colorful, creative, quirky, stylized, and goofy. The results are often incredibly bizarre but undeniably entertaining. The post ‘Weird Medieval Guys’: 50 Amusing And Confusing ...
Other manuscripts include: the Gospel of Baltimore (The Gospels of the Translators or The Four Gospels) (Walters Art Museum, Ms. 537 [7]) produced in 966, which is an example of a radical transformation of the architectural decorations with its use of small geometric patterns, [24] or the 'Gospel of Vahapar' (Matenadaran, Ms. 10780), produced ...