/ en /medieval-monster-mash-fantastical-creatures-new-college-librarys-manuscripts-twelfth-fourteenth A Medieval Monster Mash: Fantastical Creatures in New College Library’s Manuscripts from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries Jessica Hodgkinson Issue number (2024): 22 Notes category Library Manuscripts William de Brailes MS 322 MS 34 Boethius MS 264 MS 255 MS 116 MS 134 MS 174

Fantastical creatures and mythical monsters abound in medieval manuscripts. New College Library’s spectacular collection of manuscripts plays host to a wide variety of weird and wonderful beings. As we draw upon the field of ‘monster studies’, what can these fantastical creatures reveal about the people who made and used the volumes in which these creatures are found?

 

New College Library, Oxford, MS 34, f. 77r

 

New College Library and Archives, Oxford

22NCN2 (2024) Hodgkinson on Medieval Monster Mash.pdf1.86 MB ]]> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:08:50 +0000 Christopher 3256 at /node/2594 The Heretic Scribbler of Ï㽶ֱ²¥ MS 319 Antje G. Frotscher Issue number (2022): 18 Notes category Library Manuscripts MS 319 John Walton Boethius De consolatione philosophiae Thomas Philpott John Philpott Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church Protestant Reformation

Ï㽶ֱ²¥ MS 319 is one of only twenty extant copies of John Walton’s Middle English verse translation of Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae. 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?

 

New College Library, Oxford, MS 319, f. 2r

 

New College Library and Archives, Oxford

18NCN2 (2022) Frotscher on MS 319.pdf1.87 MB ]]> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:49:42 +0000 Christopher 2594 at