Textmanuscripts - Les Enluminures
Welcome to the Medieval Text Manuscripts Blog! This blog highlights what makes our text manuscripts particularly interesting and appealing to us – and (we hope) to you too! Here we explore what these books can tell us about how they were made and used. We also share what we know of their most fascinating and unusual contents, makers, and owners. Some of our discoveries are quite significant, some merely amusing, and some bizarre. All medieval manuscripts have much to reveal to their attentive modern audiences. Follow our blog to learn more about them.
March 2, 2018
It can be hard to find the right gift for your adult siblings, especially if they have lots of money, good jobs, and don’t really need anything...
January 18, 2018
New York is a city for everyone – with events to match – “Restaurant Week,” “Fashion Week,” “Fleet Week”...
December 21, 2017
Readers of this blog may wonder where the manuscripts described on our web site, www.textmanuscripts.com end up – who buys our treasures?
November 15, 2017
At first glance, this unlikely juxtaposition seems to mean nothing. Even Mr. Google yields no results in a search that combines this artist, subject, and scholar. But, indeed, one of Damien Hirst’s most inventive new works is...
October 26, 2017
For Halloween we pulled a “thriller” off the shelf with graveyard mysteries and bloody murder...
October 19, 2017
This post takes a closer look at what’s in a Book of Hours, which is arguably the most important text of the late Middle Ages. This is why...
September 26, 2017
Nineteen “new” manuscripts were just added to our text manuscripts site. We shared this news as widely as we could, but we wanted to announce it here as well, just in case...
August 16, 2017
Heartbroken lovers today don’t need to deal with their grief alone. There are plenty of advice columns and podcasts to go to for help after a breakup ends a relationship...
July 11, 2017
It wasn’t easy being king in the Middle Ages. This was a common conclusion drawn in the literature and historical writing of the period...
June 13, 2017
The telephone, the Ferris Wheel, the first public toilet, the television, the Eiffel Tower, the incubator, the X-ray machine, even the dishwasher – these are just a few of the “firsts” exhibited at world’s fairs...
