Just like the fish in the water that take the water for granted, so are we immersed in our culture(s) … More
Tag: manuscripts
The library of secrets
Who doesn’t like a medieval secret? One of the enduring features of the medieval period is that of an age … More
Let us make the past in our image, after our likeness
What can medieval manuscripts contribute to the current debate about whether questionable items from our past (the past understood as … More
Judging a book by its covers
Don’t judge a book by its covers, they say. The inside is what counts, they say. The advertising community is … More
The enduring charm of hybridity
In at least one respect, we’re not too far away from the Middle Ages, and that’s in our cultural bend … More
Guilty pleasures
Since the 14th century, many book lovers have been born in Florence or its vicinity. The Renaissance was, since its … More
To inhabit a letter
What was the snuggest spot to inhabit on the medieval manuscript page? It couldn’t have been on the text, that … More
Pre-print UX
Everything today is about user experience. The standard ISO definition of user experience has it as ‘a person’s perceptions and … More
Imag(in)ing Dante: an illustrated manuscript of the Divine Comedy (with complete set of drawings)
Of the several hundreds of manuscripts of Dante’s Divine Comedy, about a hundred have some illumination or decoration, drawn or … More
The confession of a 15th-century curator of manuscripts
We generally know very little about the early physical life of medieval manuscripts. We know when texts were started and … More
