Way back in September last year, I posted an image from @uofglasgowasc MS Hunterian Bf.1.18 (Venice, 1478) showing a close-up of some beautiful gold leaf found within its pages, along with the news that I’d just been diagnosed with #cancer. So it only seems right that nearly a year on from that post, I share another view of that same gold leaf along with the news that at the moment I am currently officially in #remission! I cannot describe how amazing it is to hear those words and know that all my plans for the following year can now go ahead. I can’t wait to spend the next twelve months getting back to the manuscripts and the research I love, and taking you all on that journey with me! Thanks to everyone for their support on here over the past year, and -as always- thank you all for following. ❤️🎉🥂📖 #uofglasgow #uofglibrary #iglibraries #specialcollections #specialcollectionsofinstagram #archives #archivesofinstagram #libraries #librariesofinstagram #bookstagram #manuscriptsofinstagram #rarebooksofinstagram #manuscripts #books #bookhistory #bookart #medieval #medievalmanuscripts #rarebooks #explorearchives #archivesunlocked #illumination #goldleaf #illuminatedmanuscripts
🤭🤫🤭 This manuscript image is RIPE for captioning! I’ll leave that to your imaginations... 😉 This is folio 8v from MS Hunter 398 (V.2.18), a C15th French Apocalypse manuscript [see: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/detail_c.cfm?ID=35306] which depicts Apocalypse 7:1-3 which begins: “After these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that they should not blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor on any tree.” I’ve posted from this manuscript before (remember the rainbow vomit??) and it’s STUNNING: the colours are still so vibrant! As the catalogue describes, the manuscript features **48 pictures** which adorn the first 24 folios, of which this is just one. So plenty more to come from this MS in the future! #apocalypse #uofglasgow #uofglibrary #iglibraries #specialcollections #specialcollectionsofinstagram #archives #archivesofinstagram #libraries #librariesofinstagram #bookstagram #manuscriptsofinstagram #illumination #rarebooksofinstagram #manuscripts #books #bookhistory #bookart #medieval #medievalmanuscripts #rarebooks #explorearchives #archivesunlocked
Page turning in reverse: what better images for a day of reflecting on the year gone by? Despite the many unexpected things that have happened to me this year, 2018 has brought new experiences, amazing opportunities, love and laughter, and will be forever in my memory as the year I **LIVED**. So whether you’re turning over a new leaf for 2019, or simply celebrating the year past, I wish you all a very merry #Hogmanay from bonnie #Scotland, and health and happiness in 2019! Here’s to another year of marvellous medieval manuscripts! 🎉🎊🗓📖 [@uofglasgowasc MS Hunter 435 (V.5.5): Alexander of Tralles ‘Practice of Medicine’ and other texts, C12th] #uofglasgow #uofglasgowasc #uofglibrary #iglibraries #specialcollections #specialcollectionsofinstagram #archives #archivesofinstagram #libraries #librariesofinstagram #bookstagram #manuscriptsofinstagram #rarebooksofinstagram #manuscripts #books #bookhistory #bookart #medieval #medievalmanuscripts #rarebooks #explorearchives #archivesunlocked
