William de Brailes

A Medieval Monster Mash: Fantastical Creatures in ��Ƶ Library’s Manuscripts from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries

Christopher — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:08:50 +0000

A Medieval Monster Mash: Fantastical Creatures in ��Ƶ Library’s Manuscripts from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries

Jessica Hodgkinson

Issue number

(2024): 22

Notes category

Fantastical creatures and mythical monsters abound in medieval manuscripts. ��Ƶ Library’s spectacular collection of manuscripts plays host to a wide variety of weird and wonderful beings. As we draw upon the field of ‘monster studies’, what can these fantastical creatures reveal about the people who made and used the volumes in which these creatures are found?

��Ƶ Library, Oxford, MS 34, f. 77r

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

22NCN2 (2024) Hodgkinson on Medieval Monster Mash.pdf1.86 MB

Capturing Sound: The Art of William de Brailes in ��Ƶ MS 322

Christopher — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:42:06 +0000

Capturing Sound: The Art of William de Brailes in ��Ƶ MS 322

Shelley Morwenna Williams

Issue number

(2022): 17

Notes category

MS 322

Library Manuscripts

William de Brailes

Fabulous and enigmatic marginalia adorn the folios of MS 322, a psalter completed c. 1238–1252 in the workshop of William de Brailes in Oxford. Could the pen flourishes be abstract visualizations of sound, possibly reflecting the shifting nature of musical theory in the thirteenth century?

��Ƶ Library, Oxford, MS 322, f. 96v

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

17NCN2 (2022) Williams on MS 322.pdf2.32 MB

The Palette and Pigments of a Thirteenth-Century Oxford Illuminator

Christopher — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:25:27 +0000

The Palette and Pigments of a Thirteenth-Century Oxford Illuminator

Richard Gameson

Issue number

(2021): 15

Notes category

Among the manifold library treasures of ��Ƶ, Oxford, the thirteenth-century psalter MS 322 occupies a special place both on account of its magnificence and of its historical significance.

��Ƶ Library, Oxford, MS 322, f. 113r

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

15NCN1 (2021) Gameson on Palette and Pigments.pdf821.07 KB

William de Brailes

A Medieval Monster Mash: Fantastical Creatures in ������Ƶ Library’s Manuscripts from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries

A Medieval Monster Mash: Fantastical Creatures in ������Ƶ Library’s Manuscripts from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries

������Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

Capturing Sound: The Art of William de Brailes in ������Ƶ MS 322

Capturing Sound: The Art of William de Brailes in ������Ƶ MS 322

Fabulous and enigmatic marginalia adorn the folios of MS 322, a psalter completed c. 1238–1252 in the workshop of William de Brailes in Oxford. Could the pen flourishes be abstract visualizations of sound, possibly reflecting the shifting nature of musical theory in the thirteenth century?

������Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

The Palette and Pigments of a Thirteenth-Century Oxford Illuminator

The Palette and Pigments of a Thirteenth-Century Oxford Illuminator

Among the manifold library treasures of ������Ƶ, Oxford, the thirteenth-century psalter MS 322 occupies a special place both on account of its magnificence and of its historical significance.

������Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

A Medieval Monster Mash: Fantastical Creatures in ��Ƶ Library’s Manuscripts from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries

A Medieval Monster Mash: Fantastical Creatures in ��Ƶ Library’s Manuscripts from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

Capturing Sound: The Art of William de Brailes in ��Ƶ MS 322

Capturing Sound: The Art of William de Brailes in ��Ƶ MS 322

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

Among the manifold library treasures of ��Ƶ, Oxford, the thirteenth-century psalter MS 322 occupies a special place both on account of its magnificence and of its historical significance.

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford