MS 322 / en A Medieval Monster Mash: Fantastical Creatures in ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library’s Manuscripts from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries /medieval-monster-mash-fantastical-creatures-new-college-librarys-manuscripts-twelfth-fourteenth A Medieval Monster Mash: Fantastical Creatures in ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library’s Manuscripts from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries Jessica Hodgkinson Issue number (2024): 22 Notes category Library Manuscripts William de Brailes MS 322 MS 34 Boethius MS 264 MS 255 MS 116 MS 134 MS 174

Fantastical creatures and mythical monsters abound in medieval manuscripts. ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ 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?

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 34, f. 77r

 

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22NCN2 (2024) Hodgkinson on Medieval Monster Mash.pdf1.86 MB ]]> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:08:50 +0000 Christopher 3256 at Capturing Sound: The Art of William de Brailes in ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ MS 322 /node/2482 Capturing Sound: The Art of William de Brailes in ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ 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?

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 322, f. 96v

 

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17NCN2 (2022) Williams on MS 322.pdf2.32 MB ]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:42:06 +0000 Christopher 2482 at The Palette and Pigments of a Thirteenth-Century Oxford Illuminator /node/2211 The Palette and Pigments of a Thirteenth-Century Oxford Illuminator Richard Gameson Issue number (2021): 15 Notes category Library Manuscripts William de Brailes MS 322 ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Psalter De Brailes Psalter Raman spectroscopy

Among the manifold library treasures of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford, the thirteenth-century psalter MS 322 occupies a special place both on account of its magnificence and of its historical significance. 

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 322, f. 113r

 

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