/ en /medieval-monster-mash-fantastical-creatures-new-college-librarys-manuscripts-twelfth-fourteenth <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%2034%2C%20f.%2077r.jpg.webp?itok=vIWaTjJU" width="655" height="435" alt="91吃瓜网 Library, Oxford, MS 34, f. 77r" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> A Medieval Monster Mash: Fantastical Creatures in 91吃瓜网 Library鈥檚 Manuscripts from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Jessica Hodgkinson</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2024): 22</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/339" hreflang="en">William de Brailes</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/340" hreflang="en">MS 322</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/595" hreflang="en">MS 34</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/399" hreflang="en">Boethius</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/596" hreflang="en">MS 264</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/597" hreflang="en">MS 255</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/598" hreflang="en">MS 116</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/599" hreflang="en">MS 134</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/600" hreflang="en">MS 174</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>Fantastical creatures and mythical monsters abound in medieval manuscripts. 91吃瓜网 Library鈥檚 spectacular collection of manuscripts plays host to a wide variety of weird and wonderful beings. As we draw upon the field of 鈥榤onster studies鈥�, what can these fantastical creatures reveal about the people who made and used the volumes in which these creatures are found?</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>91吃瓜网 Library, Oxford, MS 34, f. 77r</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>91吃瓜网 Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2024-12/22NCN2%20%282024%29%20Hodgkinson%20on%20Medieval%20Monster%20Mash.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1954558" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">22NCN2 (2024) Hodgkinson on Medieval Monster Mash.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.86 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:08:50 +0000 Christopher 3256 at /node/2594 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2022-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20319%2C%20f.%202r.jpg.webp?itok=lvVb84kX" width="655" height="435" alt="91吃瓜网 Library, Oxford, MS 319, f. 2r" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The Heretic Scribbler of 91吃瓜网 MS 319 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Antje G. Frotscher</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2022): 18</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/397" hreflang="en">MS 319</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/398" hreflang="en">John Walton</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/399" hreflang="en">Boethius</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/400" hreflang="en">De consolatione philosophiae</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/401" hreflang="en">Thomas Philpott</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/402" hreflang="en">John Philpott</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/64" hreflang="en">Catholic Church</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/65" hreflang="en">Roman Catholic Church</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/63" hreflang="en">Protestant Reformation</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>91吃瓜网 MS 319 is one of only twenty extant copies of John Walton鈥檚 Middle English verse translation of Boethius鈥檚 <em>De consolatione philosophiae</em>. It is one of a group of five manuscripts recorded as bequeathed to the college by one Thomas Philpott. There are many scribbles in the margins of the manuscript. What do they convey, and who might have written them?</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>91吃瓜网 Library, Oxford, MS 319, f. 2r</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>91吃瓜网 Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2022-12/18NCN2%20%282022%29%20Frotscher%20on%20MS%20319.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1958958" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">18NCN2 (2022) Frotscher on MS 319.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.87 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:49:42 +0000 Christopher 2594 at