[smallwhiterat]

Illuminated Internet (2024-2025)

[othellho]

Ingram, John Henry, Flora Symbolica: The language and sentiment of flowers, (London: 1869).

[lucybellwood]

hi sorry s'cuse me but were NONE OF YOU GOING TO TELL ME ABOUT BLACK BOOKS OF HOURS???

LOOK AT THIS MAGNIFICENT GOTH-ASS SHIT

EGADDDDDDD

THE IRON-COPPER SOLUTION USED TO DYE THE PAGES WAS SO CORROSIVE THAT THERE ARE VERY FEW SURVIVING EXAMPLES

THESE BOOKS WERE LITERALLY TOO METAL TO LIVE

i can't

[anglicanaformata]

A recent piece I did for @minktif as part of a little art exchange! The quote is by Sandal from Dragon Age.

Text: Bohemian textura in iron gall ink & quill. Paint: Umton gouache & pencil. Gilding: gold leaf & shell gold.

[olicrosse]

[cephalopodvictorious]

fixed it

[star-thief]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

ourhg

[eltonjohndenver]

medieval girlblogger looking at an illumination of a young martyr: ugh she shouldst be in the tavern

[nat1quoteunquote]

[vitoriabas]

Some wacky illustrations for a short dissertation I wrote for my Masters, exploring the relationship between medieval illuminations, marginalia, and online ads.

Markers on cartridge paper.

[gothhabiba]

Samantha: do the people know about Ampersand Island?

me: ... no.....

[gothhabiba]

this is Ampersand Island. every time I come across a beautiful, interesting, or unusual ampersand in my archival travels I take a screenshot and place it neatly in this little pile on my desktop

[gothhabiba]

[sca-nerd]

[anglicanaformata]

Happy April 1st! ☺️

[anglicanaformata]

My most recently finished full piece! This is A5 sized, and the script is based on a Bohemian manuscript from c. 1400 ☺️

[vinceaddams]

Leatherwork patterns/designs from Le Cuir: Compositions Decoratives by Jehan Raymond, 1908.

[vinceaddams]

I'm seeing a lot of people tag this with their find later tag, so I just want to say that you can make an account on the internet archive and save the book to your favourites! (In case it wasn't clear from the post, there are pattern diagrams and full colour illustrations for every design in the book.)

And once you do that, also save Leather Work (1915) by Adelaide Mickel to your favourites. (Some bizarre uploading error has tacked on another unrelated book to the end of that one, so unfortunately it's only 58 pages and not 464.)

[f00fle4cakes]

I just found this image and words cannot describe how much I love it. I don’t know where it’s from, but it looks like he’s having a jolly time

[mun-sal-vache]

Sir Orfeo, illustrated by Errol le Cain. 

[vibraph0ny]

Everyone's all "ohhh 2026 bring back physical media" until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we're not on the same page anymore

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

Actually we are on the same page. We've been on the same page for a week because these things take forever to make

[dogheadedsaint]