/ en /medieval-monster-mash-fantastical-creatures-new-college-librarys-manuscripts-twelfth-fourteenth <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-12/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%2034%2C%20f.%2077r.jpg.webp?itok=vIWaTjJU" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 34, f. 77r" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> A Medieval Monster Mash: Fantastical Creatures in ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library’s Manuscripts from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Jessica Hodgkinson</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2024): 22</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/339" hreflang="en">William de Brailes</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/340" hreflang="en">MS 322</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/595" hreflang="en">MS 34</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/399" hreflang="en">Boethius</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/596" hreflang="en">MS 264</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/597" hreflang="en">MS 255</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/598" hreflang="en">MS 116</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/599" hreflang="en">MS 134</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/600" hreflang="en">MS 174</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>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?</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 34, f. 77r</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2024-12/22NCN2%20%282024%29%20Hodgkinson%20on%20Medieval%20Monster%20Mash.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1954558" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">22NCN2 (2024) Hodgkinson on Medieval Monster Mash.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.86 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:08:50 +0000 Christopher 3256 at /node/2594 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2022-12/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20319%2C%20f.%202r.jpg.webp?itok=lvVb84kX" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 319, f. 2r" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The Heretic Scribbler of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ MS 319 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Antje G. Frotscher</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2022): 18</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/397" hreflang="en">MS 319</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/398" hreflang="en">John Walton</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/399" hreflang="en">Boethius</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/400" hreflang="en">De consolatione philosophiae</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/401" hreflang="en">Thomas Philpott</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/402" hreflang="en">John Philpott</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/64" hreflang="en">Catholic Church</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/65" hreflang="en">Roman Catholic Church</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/63" hreflang="en">Protestant Reformation</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ MS 319 is one of only twenty extant copies of John Walton’s Middle English verse translation of Boethius’s <em>De consolatione philosophiae</em>. It is one of a group of five manuscripts recorded as bequeathed to the college by one Thomas Philpott. There are many scribbles in the margins of the manuscript. What do they convey, and who might have written them?</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 319, f. 2r</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2022-12/18NCN2%20%282022%29%20Frotscher%20on%20MS%20319.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1958958" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">18NCN2 (2022) Frotscher on MS 319.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.87 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:49:42 +0000 Christopher 2594 at