@bryonycoombs
Art Historian I Medieval and Early Modern, PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture. https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs https://bryonycoombs.com
Ilkley France, there was a real vogue for pocket bibles produced in the 13th C Paris. This one has an early Scottish provenance that I am interested in. The parchment is tissue thin. It is extraordinary & I wondered if any optical aids were used a lens (rather than spectacles) for example...
I know...can you imagine....
Also, I have been in many special collections reading rooms for this project, but this is the first which had a grandfather clock! Just visible in the image on the right...
I know! It was astonishing! So very tiny and so very precise!
One of todayโs treasures was a 13th C pocket bible, a single volume made small enough to fit in a pocket or saddle bag. Often made in Paris, in this case the text was so incredibly tiny it was barely legible without a magnifying glass...
There were many amazing thing in Durham and some important case studies for the book, but one of my favourite finds was this 13th C little guy in his hat...
What better day to welcome the Bury Psalter back to the Abbey of St Edmund site than #WorldBookDay! Join us at 5.30pm this evening, Thursday 5 March, for a special Evensong where we will formally receive the Bury Psalter. Everyone is welcome.
On the seemingly endless quest for 'Scottish' manuscripts for the book project 'Scotland on Parchment', I am up bright and early and off to Durham. Cannot wait to see what awaits...
Helping out with Scouts on a night walk at Blackford hill last night and the moon was amazing (but impossible for my phone to capture!)
Sharing some book research with some engaged and enthusiastic first yrs... ๐
Today was a fun lecture day! โบ๏ธ
We are hiring ....
Because John Nightingale is retiring...
for a Tutorial Fellowship in European History 400-1000...
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Donning my purple gloves to say happy birthday to our 1000-year-old astrolabe #histsci ๐
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Made it to St Marnock's at Fowlis Easter, with its extremely rare in situ pre-Reformation paintings. I was too excited about all the painted manuscripts... ๐
Yes!
In a crazy big old house with a group of old university pals and there is a surprise at every corner...
It looks brilliant!
Llyfr braslunio yn eiddo i Frances Margaret Wynne
Sketch book belonging to F.M.W. [Frances Margaret Wynne] but including works by B.W. [Blanche Maria Wynne]. Sketches and watercolours of flowers, of scenes around Llanddulas and Garthewin, and of part of Lake Geneva.
1879-1887 Garthewin Add./715
Yay, love a bit of illumination! :) โจ
Booked a log cabin up north to escape Edinburgh in Easter and walk up munros. The thought of it is keeping me going...๐๏ธ
'Mount of Wisdom' MS 0412, f. 020v, Bibliothรจque Municipale, Carpentras.
Happy Valentines with a motif playing on the iconographic tradition of the Mystic Winepress where Christ becomes the grapes in the press. Here the sacred heart is pressed in a bookbinding press. In the centre is the Virgin of the Seven Sorrows....โค๏ธ๐โค๏ธ
Happy almost Valentine's Day with a detail from an extraordinary survival of a pre-Reformation Scottish textile: The Fetternear Banner held by the NMS. The heart motif relates to the arms of Gavin Douglas (1474-1522) at the top of the banner, the scallop shell relates to the Graham family โค๏ธ๐โค๏ธ๐โค๏ธ
Fellowship Opportunity!
Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Womenโs History
University of Oxford - St Hildaโs College
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Printerโs mark in woodcut engraving by Christophe Plantin featuring a hand descending from the sky holding a golden compass making a circle on a surface in an ornamental border, hand coloured in a burgundy red, deep blue and bright yellow
Title page of the Novum Testamentum printed by Christophe Plantin in 1564 with a woodcut engraving depicting Plantinโs printerโs mark that is hand coloured
Page in the book that features printed text with an initial letter that is embellished by hand with colour and the text is rubricated throughout with colour.
Love this colourful printerโs mark of Christophe Plantin in a customized copy of the New Testament (1564) for Hubertus Schotus, the prior of the Bois-Seigneur-Isaac Abbey!
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With enormous thanks, as ever, to my fabulous publishers @edinburghup.bsky.social !โจ