In today’s episode of fingernail vs scribe, check out this TEENY TINY book of hours:

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Okay check out this fragment!!!! Painted later by… a genius? (Even if I’m not happy that they painted on the leaves I also kind of love these dudes in the bottom margin. Feelings are complex!)

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This is what my face looks like when I see a manuscript and it is entirely out of my control. Apologies! 😬😍

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Also… sometimes you’re looking for a Beauvais Missal leaf and you find… other treasures on the monastery walls! 🤩🤩

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This morning I am loving this choir book leaf which has, maybe?! I think?, guide marks that the music scribe added before entering notation 🥰 You can see these dark lines through the faded notation ink!

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Sharing these after the fact because I was super busy looking at all their cool stuff! First, this bible fragment with VERY GOOD penwork. I mean… 😍😍😍

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This music scribe REEEEALLY loved himself a climacus. He had to erase six of them on this one leaf (selection in the photos)! What was he up to?! 🤔 (MSS 400, XOPF 400/40-4)
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Another fun binding fragment (although the whole codex is in scope for this item!): a Syriac manuscript on paper, with binding material from another Syriac manuscript on paper! Inception!

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Here is a very cool object: a volume with stacked paper boards that have come apart, revealing a manuscript fragment between the print waste! (Rare Books PA2317 .E7 1546). The manuscript leaf is from a psalter 🌟

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