Showing posts with label persona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label persona. Show all posts

January 26, 2013

Midrealm Persona Project: 10 manuscripts from my time

Response to Question from 1/26/13, For the A&S 50 Persona Project

"List as many illuminated manuscripts, book of hours, ext. written in your century AND your time period. Try to find 10!"

Here are some links for you:

This one I call MOMMO: Mother Of all Medieval Manuscripts Online. It occurred to me most of the links I have been saving for years are right here anyway. http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/mdmss.shtml

And here are my personal links:

https://delicious.com/jocelyn6/manuscriptcollections
https://delicious.com/jocelyn6/manuscriptfacsimiles

So, here goes:

Jocelyn’s List of 12th century English manuscripts
(This one goes to 11)

“Winchester Psalter’ or ‘Psalter of Henry of Blois’
Mid 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century, Winchester Cathedral
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=1&ref=Cotton_MS_nero_c_iv
Fully Digitized, British Library: MS Cotton Nero c iv
f. 7r--Very interesting striped hose

Miscellany including Bede's De Natura Rerum A composite manuscript: John Chrysostom, Homilies. Augustine of Hippo, Sermons. Isidore of Seville, De Differentis. Bede, De Natura Rerum Anselm, De libero arbitrio.
Mid 12th century, probably England
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=6&ref=Harley_MS_3015
Fully Digitized, British Library: Harley MS 3015

Psalter ('The Shaftesbury Psalter') with calendar and prayers
1135, the nunnery at Shaftesbury, England
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=17&ref=Lansdowne_MS_383
Fully Digitized, British Library: Lansdowne MS 383
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/illmanus/landmanucoll/p/011lan000000383u00057000.html

The Rochester Bible 12th century, England [the cathedral priory of St Andrew, Rochester]http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=18&ref=Royal_MS_1_c_vii
Fully Digitized, Royal MS 1 C VII, ff 1r-183v)
 
Bede, Prose Life of Cuthbert England, North (Durham).The priory of Durham Cathedral, 1175-1200
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Yates_thompson_MS_26&index=22
Fully Digitized, British Library: Yates Thompson MS 26
f. 9r, Missing miniature, pasted down and lost. Part of a horse’s butt outside of what’s left of a painted frame.

John of Worcester‘s, Chronicle of world and English history,
Worcester Cathedral Priory, written 1128-1140.
http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=corpus&manuscript=ms157
Fully Digitized, Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 157

Terence's Comedies
St. Albans Abbey, mid 12th century
http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=bodleian&manuscript=msauctf213
Fully Digitized, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. F. 2.13
 
Opusculum de ratione sperean anonymous Latin compilation on astronomy English, Mid 12th century
http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=bodleian&manuscript=msdigby83
Fully Digitized, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 83
 
Scenes of the birth of ChristNorth English, third quarter of the 12th century
http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/view/all/what/MS.%20Douce%20293/when/12th%20century,%20third%20quarter/?q=LIMIT: ODLodl~29~29,ODLodl~7~7,ODLodl~6~6,ODLodl~14~14,ODLodl~8~8,ODLodl~23~23,ODLodl~1~1,ODLodl~24~24&os=0
Illuminations Digitized, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 293

Worksop bestiaryEngland, possibly in Lincoln or York, ca. 1185
http://utu.morganlibrary.org/medren/mslistview.cfm?ACCNO=M.81&StartRow=1.0
Illuminations Digitized, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M 81
 
PsalterEngland, perhaps Canterbury, ca. 1180.
http://utu.morganlibrary.org/medren/mslistview.cfm?ACCNO=G.43&StartRow=1.0
Illuminations Digitized, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS G.43


 

 

Bonus:
Some Random Durham Cathedral Charters with bodacious wax seals:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/medieval.documents/documents.htm#1100

October 23, 2012

Midrealm Persona Project-Question Set 1: Current Local

1. What country do you live in? What part of the country?
Englaland, in the Guthlaxton wapentake (hundred). About a days walk from Ledecestre (Leicester) to the noreast, and Coventry in the sowest; and A few hours walk from Rocheberie (Rugby) to the south. While I have never gone to see it, there is a high cross about half a days walk to the norwest where the ancient Roman roads of Fosse Way and  Watling Street cross.

2. Are there any maps from your area (from your time) No, have not found any extant maps yet.

3. What is your capital? Wintonceastre (Winchester)

4. How far is it to the capital city? (in units of measure your persona would have used?) 100 miles
5. Have you ever been there? No
6. How did you get here? My great grandfather Ivo de Goce was given land becasue of his acts of valor and dedication to his baron on the battlefield of Hastings. VER

7. What is the climate like? We have cool weather, and mild winters. Very rarely do the men need to take off their tunics during thier work, exept perhaps in the warmest months of July and August. In the winter, we sometimes get snow, but it does not stay on the ground very long.  The streams and rivers do not freeze over, and occasionally on some very cold nights in January and February would the water in pails and troughs get a rind of ice upon them.

8. What is the terrain like?
The land is rather flat, with a few hillocks and slopes. The flat lands are covered in grasses for grazing cattle and sheep, and the soil good for growing corn (grains) and oats. There are ample small woodlands along the creeks and marshes in the vales. EXP

9. Who are the people who live in this place?
 Farmers, both freedmen and villeins. In the village of Lutterwurth, a few tradesmen such as the potter, the smith, stone cutters, woodworkers, and a tanner. VER

10. Who are the people who travel to or through here? TBD

11. What is the largest road and where does it go? TBD
12. The nearest church or cathedral? The church of St. Mary in the village of Lutterwurth. EXP

13. Nearest waterway? Is it navigable and how? The River Swift runs through the village of Lutterwurth. Ne name is deceiving, it is actually moreso a stream. During seasons of drought, some parts of it dry up and we need to take our livestock further down the river to drink. The river starts in the marshes to the east, and flows sowest to the River Avon.

13 7/32. And what do those letters mean?
(TBD-TO BE DETERMINED) I dont know the answers yet, but I will work on finding them.
(VER-VERIFY) Right now I am just making stuff up. ;-) I will work on fleshing out that story.
(EXP-EXPAND) I've so much more cool stuff to tell you about this, but I'll get to that later.