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.
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...
April 05, 2017
One of the questions we are asked most frequently about medieval prayer books, especially Books of Hours, is how they were actually used...
March 22, 2017
News flash! Eighteen “new” manuscripts were added to our text manuscripts site last Thursday...
March 10, 2017
Monsters and mythical creatures, birds and beasts, warriors and angels are far from unexpected in the margins of medieval manuscripts, where they supply endlessly variable subjects for marginalia...
January 31, 2017
Since 1991, Les Enluminures has sold important examples of early drawings both to major public institutions and to private collectors. Today, opportunities to purchase drawings before 1500 are extremely limited...
January 04, 2017
Happy New Year to all of our readers! The year 2017 is full of possibilities – and, we’re guessing, full of resolutions as well...
December 09, 2016
It seems you can’t go anywhere this time of year without a barrage of advertisements flaunting gifts for everyone on your list...
November 15, 2016
The iconic image of a Hebrew Bible is the Torah Scroll, the Sefer Torah - monumental scrolls containing the entire Pentateuch (the five books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) that are used for public reading during prayer services...
