A recurring theme in medieval art is “The Three Living and the Three Dead...  ...amples of this art at the British Library’s Medieval Manuscripts blog. -via the Presurfer

Before the printing press, books were copied by ha...  ...ho worked for years on one volume. Those original manuscripts are rare now, and hard to read, but for the dilig...  ...d have became quite popular as a glimpse into the medieval mind.Kaitlin Manning, an associate at B & L R...  ...associate at B &...

(Photo: The National Library of France)The blog of...  ...Photo: The National Library of France)The blog of medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel is one of the hidden...  ...I interviewed him 3 weeks ago. He's an expert on manuscripts , which is how he was able to dig up this funny im...  ...t shows Reynard the F...

Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel jokes: Medieval fact you didn't know: carefully monitored competi...  ...ectly, this image can be found in the Engelberg 3 manuscript

The Gospel of Mark is the shortest of the four can...  ...was written under demanding conditions. Here's a medieval manuscript illumination showing Mark in a portable writing d...  ...ng the First Century.This image comes courtesy of medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel. I interviewed him a...  ...his annotation...

Dr. Erik Kwakkel is of a rare breed: a serious int...  ...ting and accessible to a popular audience. He's a medieval European book historian and a professor at Leiden...  ...these book oddities.First, how does one become a medieval book historian? What skills and educational exper...  ...American universities pr...

(Photo: Luttrell Psalter, British Library)The Viviender is a Fifteenth Century book written in Middle French. It contains 60 recipies as well as household tips and medical advice. One of the recipies is ideal for Thanksg...

Long ago, in a kingdom far, far away, a young Jedi...  ...bike for a lance and a sturgeon. Erik Krawkkel, a medieval book historian, spotted this image in a Fourteent...

There's a hole in your Fifteenth Century manuscript . How are you going to fix it? At some point durin...  ...fix it? At some point during the history of this manuscript housed at Uppsala University in Sweden, the solut...

This certainly looks like an ad for the film Monty...  ...d about 1305. Discarded Images is a collection of medieval illustrations and manuscript illuminations that cover the entire range of what...