Books incoming to my library

[sister_raphael]

Behold these three great books I bought myself for Xmas!

The Ivories one was very, very expensive but worth every cent, both as a research book and as a beautiful book to read and look at. Absolutely gorgeous! The Illuminated manuscript facsimile is pretty nice, but it was much bigger than I thought it would be, so I need to check whether it's to scale or not. I'm loving it though. The Gilbertus was a big disappointment as I mistakenly thought it was the book itself, not someones notes on it. It's a slender volume and while it is very interesting, it really wasn't what I thought it would be.

I'll be doing some book reviews on these over the next few days.

Comments

[cmcmck]

It's worth recalling that some medieval manusripts are tiny while others, like antiphonals, can be huge!

Just finished reading this and it might well interest you:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305351/the-posthumous-papers-of-the-manuscripts-club-by-hamel-christopher-de/9780241304389

[sister_raphael]

I've got another book about manuscripts by him!

And yes, some of those pages are huuuge! I have one from an antiphony and it's roughly A3 sized! Enormous piece of parchment if ever I saw one!