Carved ivory binding, front cover in five sections of Echmiadzin Gospel, Virgin and Child with scenes from her life, 6th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matenadaran#/media/File:Echgospfrontcov.jpeg
Armenia Is About To Put Its Ancient Manuscripts Online For Free
By Amos Chapple
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Armenia at PG:
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A page of Fibonacci's Liber Abaci from the Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze showing (in box on right) 13 entries of the Fibonacci sequence: the indices from present to XII (months) as Latin ordinals and Roman numerals and the numbers (of rabbit pairs) as Hindu-Arabic numerals starting with 1, 2, 3, 5 and ending with 377. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence#/media/File:Liber_abbaci_magliab_f124r.jpg
Spiral into the ‘golden ratio’ – and separate the myths from the maths
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Ellesmere Chaucer, mssEL 26 C 9, folio 153v, Tale of Melibee with portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer. The Ellesmere Chaucer (Huntington Library, San Marino, California, MS EL 26 C 9) is one of the most famous illuminated manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, produced in England in the early 15th century, likely around 1400–1410. Folio 153v contains the beginning of the Tale of Melibee. In the upper margin, there is a finely executed portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer himself. He is depicted as a mature man in a dark hooded robe, with a forked beard, holding a rosary and gesturing as if speaking — visually reinforcing his role as the narrator and participant in the tales. This small portrait is one of several scattered throughout the manuscript, each illustrating the different pilgrims telling their stories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales#/media/File:Ellesmere_Chaucer,_mssEL_26_C_9,_folio_153v_color_enhanced.jpg
A 600-year-old Chaucer mystery may finally be solved
A medieval sermon packed with 'memes' and simple spelling mistakes could explain a baffling line in 'The Canterbury Tales.'
By Andrew Paul
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Cantebury Tales at PG:
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This is a traditional Chinese medical illustration, from a historical acupuncture manual. It shows a male figure with anatomical markings related to acupuncture meridians and points. The man is shown bare-chested, wearing traditional loose Chinese garments. He has a long black beard and mustache, and his hair is tied up with a blue ribbon or cloth, in a style typical of classical Chinese scholars. He stands with a slight contrapposto twist, his left arm bent inward, and his right hand extended outward.
This 2,200-Year-Old Chinese Medical Text May Be The Oldest Human Anatomy Chart In History
By Natasha Ishak
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Ancient Medicine at PG:
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Ireland’s Oldest and Largest Medieval Book Shrine Goes on Public View for the First Time
By Kate Mothes
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A page from the mysterious Voynich manuscript, which is undeciphered to this day. Page 175; f99r, of the pharmaceutical section Unknown author - Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
The Voynich Manuscript revealed: five things you probably did not know about the Medieval masterpiece
By Garry Shaw
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Shake-Speare's Sonnets, quarto published by Thomas Thorpe, London, 1609, title page
Lost for 400 Years: Researcher Discover Hidden Copy of Shakespeare Sonnet
By University of Oxford
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This copy of 'The Canterbury Tales' was produced in the 1430s. Credit: Brigade Piron / Wikipedia Commons The page is divided into two columns of Gothic script, written in a careful, black ink hand. The text is in Middle English, in the dialect of Geoffrey Chaucer’s original work. Margins are generous, a sign of a high-quality manuscript. The first letter of the text or sections features large, decorative initials in blue and red, often highlighted with white detailing and gold leaf. These initials are sometimes framed or flourished with vines and patterns that extend into the margins.
A surprising number of medieval scribes were women
New research estimates around 8,000 of those manuscripts could still exist today.
By Andrew Paul
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Illustration from page 16 of The Boy's King Arthur: "And when they came to the sword that the hand held, King Arthur took it up." N. C. Wyeth - The Boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, Edited for Boys by Sidney Lanier (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922).
A Lost Bit of the Story of Merlin and Arthur Has Been Found at Cambridge
By Molly Templeton
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You can explore the manuscript for yourself at Cambridge Digital Libraries
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Merlin at PG
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Women Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously Thought
New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.
By Sarah Kuta
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Researchers Unearth The Oldest Illustrated Book Ever Found, An Egyptian Map Of The Underworld
By Natasha Ishak
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Sonnet 116 in the 1609 Quarto of Shakespeare's sonnets The poet begins by stating he does not object to the "marriage of true minds", but maintains that love is not true if it changes with time; true love should be constant, regardless of difficulties. In the seventh line, the poet makes a nautical reference, alluding to love being much like the north star is to sailors. True love is, like the polar star, "ever-fixed". Love is "not Time's fool", though physical beauty is altered by it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_116
A New Copy of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116: A Cavalier Cover Version
The poem is a copy of Henry Lawes’ song-setting which adds six new lines to the poem.
By Leah S Veronese
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The Undecipherable Voynich Manuscript Can Be Viewed Online in Its Entirety
By Eva Baron
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The Mystery of the World’s Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
By Joshua Hammer
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Austen Henry Layard at PG:
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#OTD in 1859.
German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf identifies portions of the mid-4th century Codex Sinaiticus at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in the Khedivate of Egypt.
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Monumenta Sacra Inedita:
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GilgameshTablet
Reverse of Inscribed Terra Cotta Tablet containing the Account of the Deluge, showing the various fragments of which it was composed at the time of Mr. Smith’s Translation.
#OTD in 1872.
Assyriologist George Smith presents the first translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh to a meeting of the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London.
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The Chaldean account of Genesis at PG:
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