This certainly looks like an ad for the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but it was published about 1305. Discarded Images is a collection of medieval illustrations and manuscript illuminations that cover the entire...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/14/Discarded-Images/
Cursed cats! They are so fond of disrupting human work, especially medieval manuscript composition. In 1420, a scribe in what is now the Netherlands discovered that a cat had urinated on a page that he had written. He ad...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/22/Medieval-Manuscript-Peed-on-by-a-Cat/
The Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Is... ...on of 30,000 of the world's most precious ancient manuscripts . Or it did until recently. On January 23rd, al-Qa... ...t 40 of his 72 years on earth taking care of rare manuscripts . The illiterate old man, who walks with a cane an... ...ucated elite wo...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/05/People-of-Timbuktu-save-Manuscripts-from-Invaders/
How can you know which pages in a medieval manuscript were the most popular? Kathryn Rudy of the University of St. Andrews reasoned that the finger smudges left by readers would be a good indicator:Using a device that me...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/20/The-Most-Popular-Pages-in-Medieval-Manuscripts/
Wound Man, as he is known among the archivists at the Wellcome Library, has had a hard life. His superpower is apparently getting wounded in many, many different ways. But this medieval manuscript illustration of him was...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/02/Wound-Man/
Tree ring data indicates that sometime around 774 or 775 A.D., an intense burst of radiation hit the Earth. What was its source? Scientists were uncertain, but it was probably a supernova. Unfortunately, there were no re...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/29/medieval-manuscript-gives-clue-about-mysterious-radiation-spike/
No, you're not looking at a secret level in a Super Mario game. This is a picture of a medieval illuminated manuscript with a touch of photoshoppery applied. Carl Pyrdum, a medieval scholar, uses our friendly plumber to...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/11/using-super-mario-bros-to-explain-medieval-manuscript-illumination/
Having to endure the mind numbing monotony of... ...o endure the mind numbing monotony of duplicating manuscripts by hand every day of their cloistered lives, medi...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/23/medieval-monks-vented-their-frustration-in-manuscript-margins/
