Julianoe

Julianoe, 7 months ago to medievodons

🪢 Book of Mulling, an old Irish manuscript from the 8th century containing magnificent knotwork and beautiful paintings of the Evangelists https://www.interlaces.art/insular-illumination/book-of-mulling/
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aaronm, 7 months ago to medievodons

59 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week44.html
Continuing to be mostly Pal.gr, including a 9th C ps-Dionysius, and 11th C Greg of Naz, and a lot of post-Byzantine stuff. Elsewhere part 1/4 of a Russian Psalter, Cartularies for Orleans, a Calabrian Martyrology and more!
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P.I.O.slav.43 f.1v. A large miniature depicting a russian orthodox saint standing at an altar with three icons behind it. There is a small block of text at the bottom
A large page of 11th C greek minuscule from the Sermons of Gregory Nazianzus, Pal.gr.402 f.1v. There is a large title block in the middle with gold text in a quadrafoil. The main text starts below with a large initial Α, and there is scholia in a smaller hand on the top, right and bottom