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Top Manuscript News of 2013
By Jenneka Janzen First, a very Happy New Year to all our readers from the Turning Over a New Leaf Project! 2013 was an exciting year for manuscripts! New technologies and growing digitization programmes enhanced avenues of access and exploration … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Digital Manuscripts, Exhibitions, In the News, Manuscript, Medieval, Palimpsest
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Where the Wild Things Are: The Medieval Bestiary
By Jenneka Janzen While a bit denser than Maurice Sendak’s modern bed-time story, medieval bestiaries were, and still are, crowd-pleasers. A bestiary is a collection of short descriptions about a wide variety of (real or imagined) animals, birds, and in … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Art History, Bestiary, Manuscript, Medieval Illumination
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