#manicules

[cuties-in-codices]

elaborate manicules

from the margins of an illustrated manuscript of le roman de renart. northern france, 14th c.

source: Paris, BnF, Français 12584

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haraldur bernharðsson, 'scribal culture in thirteenth-century iceland' // revolutionary girl utena ep. 22 - 'nemuro memorial hall' // ikuhara and mari kotani, 'disturbing, traversing, borderless, shaking sexuality: the place where revolutionary girl utena was born' / / ep. 14 - 'the boys of the black rose' // six manicules in AM 76 8vo // ''the boys of the black rose' //mark d. jordan, 'the invention of sodomy in christian theology' //ep. 17 - 'the thorns of death' // 'the thorns of death' // 'nemuro memorial hall' // hand of god in the dalby gospel book // 'nemuro memorial hall' // 'the invention of sodomy in christian theology'.

Nemuro and the Monastic

[maniculum]

Off-Beat (Yet On-Theme) Request

I'm trying to get together a collection of nice-looking / interesting / etc. medieval manicules/maniculae to spruce up my classroom presentations. (I plan to trace & vectorize them for ease of use.)

However, with most of the British Library resources still down last I checked, I'm not finding many good ones out there. I figure our Tumblr followers are likelier than most to have some quality manicule images stashed away somewhere, so -- anyone out there able & willing to contribute?

(I'll share the resulting vector files for others to use, if that sweetens the pot any.)

(Also if you happen to know the provenance of any manicules you have on hand,* please share; I'd be interested to know.)

*Pun not intended, but I decided to leave it.

[riesenfeldcenter]

This manicule from Praxis Rerum Criminalium has quite the index finger.

[hdslibrary]

Mini-cule

We are smitten with the tiny pointing hands (aka manicules) in our 1495 edition of sermons by Johannes Tauler. 

Tauler, Johannes. Sermon Des Gross Gelarten in Gnade[n] Erlauchte[n] Doctoris Johannis Thauleri Predigerr Ordens... Durch Cunradum Kachelouen, 1498.

[beckerrarebooks]

Is there any better way of marking up text than a manicule? Manicules (the word is Latin for little hand!) show up fairly frequently in early modern texts as a way of indicating passages that readers found noteworthy. 

We found the top example in the Kleine Wundartzney des Lanfranci, a 1528 German edition of the Italian surgeon Lanfranco of Milan’s writings, and the bottom example comes from Johann Wolff’s Lectionum memorabilium et reconditarum. We have to admit that we’re partial to the top manicules - they’re very elegant and graceful!

[seab]

Bookmaking on the distaff side, 1937

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Meet one of my new favorite things: manicules! They're meant to be quick drawings of fingers pointing at places of particular interest or where changes have been made, but as scribes got bored and fancy, they became more... this: