Matthäus Schwarz had a passion for clothing,... ...until he was in his 60s. The result is a handmade manuscript with 137 illustrations of Schwarz modeling clothi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/04/26/Street-Style-for-the-Sensitive-German-Renaissance-Man/Medieval scribes spent years upon years painstakin... ...they added personal notes and wacky art to their manuscripts . So is it any wonder that they'd also include a w... ...to make off with their work? Quite a few of those manuscripts still exist, with warnings in the form of curses...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/26/9-Curses-for-Book-Thieves-From-the-Middle-Ages-and-Beyond/The first time a witch rode a broom in popular culture could have been in the illustrations of a book published in 1451. French poet Martin Le Franc’s Le Champion des Dames (The Defender of Ladies) shows two women...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/10/25/The-First-Known-Depiction-of-a-Witch-on-a-Broomstick/Did you know that Napoléon Bonaparte tried... ...oléon, and now a few pages of the original manuscript is going up for auction.Clisson et Eugénie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/09/18/Napolon-Bonaparte-Failed-Novelist/(Photo by the Royal Library)What will the new year... ...that's a Friday. The blog Medievalists quotes the manuscript :If the first of January comes on a Friday, the wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/05/The-Medieval-Guide-to-Predicting-the-New-Year/Did you ever imagine that you’d see a &ldquo... ...monk drew a cat in the margins of an illuminated manuscript , but that there are this many of them in a list a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/30/Top-10-Medieval-Butt-Licking-Cats/We’ve seen some pretty unusual things that p... ...unusual things that pop up in medieval religious manuscripts . Now it appears that one features a certain Jedi... ...galaxy far, far away. Julian Harrison of Medieval Manuscripts told NPR:"The Yoda image comes from a 14th-centur... ...old NPR:"The Yoda...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/18/14th-Century-Yoda/(Photo: British Library)Pictured above is Bald&rsq... ...s Leechbook, a 10th Century Latin and Anglo-Saxon manuscript owned by the British Library. It’s a refere...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/03/31/Scientists-Recreate-Medieval-Medicine-Find-That-It-Kills-MRSA/The Public Domain Review has digitized art from an... ...n Review has digitized art from an “Unknown Manuscript ” found in the in the Los Angeles County Mus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/16/Punishment-in-the-Afterlife/Benjamin Harff, a German art student, spent a... ...in the tradition of medieval European illuminated manuscripts . Most of the text itself is typed, but the elabor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/26/j-r-r-tolkiens-silmarillion-as-an-illuminated-manuscript/
