As I promised, some resources to follow-up from my Cardiff paper!

(As soon as the video links are made public, I’ll post those on the blog as I did for 2018!)

 

Manuscripts (Cited & Digitised for Further Looking)

Roman de la Rose:https://dlmm.library.jhu.edu/viewer/

Edinburgh University MS 12 (Four Gospels): https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/134778

Bald’s Leechbook,British Library Royal MS 12 Dxvii: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_12_d_xvii_fs001ar

Herbal, Oxford Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 130: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/Discover/Search/#/?p=c+0,t+,rsrs+0,rsps+10,fa+,so+ox%3Asort%5Easc,scids+,pid+98127ed0-4bde-41e0-a93a-98a185b01de8,vi+98ecf3de-7f64-45af-97b6-7dbd550abd88

 

Bestiary/Wonders of the East:

• Wonders of the East
  • British Library Cotton MS Vitellius Axv (Beowulf Manuscript)
    • http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=1&ref=Cotton_MS_Vitellius_A_XV
  • British Library Cotton MS Tiberius Bv
    • http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_B_V/1
  • Bestiaries
    • Online Repository: http://bestiary.ca
      • This includes descriptions of the various bestiaries, as well as links to translated texts freely available.
    • British Library Additional MS 11283
      • http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=1&ref=Add_MS_11283
    • British Library Harley MS 4751
      • http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_4751
    • British Library Royal MS 12 C xix
      • http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=19&ref=Royal_MS_12_C_XIX
    • Aberdeen Bestiary (MS 24)
      • https://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/

 

The Ordinal of Alchemy

• British Library Additional MS 10302 (6v is ADOW TV imagery)**
  • Digistisation:http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10302
  • Catalogue:http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=IAMS032-002108097&fn=permalink&vid=IAMS_VU2

 

Aurora Consurgens:

• Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS. Vossiani Chymici F. 29
  • https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/1521895
• Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Ms. Rh. 172
  • http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de/list/one/zbz/Ms-Rh-0172
• Glasgow University Special Collections MS Ferguson 6

 

Bible historiale:

• British Library Royal MS 17 E.vii:
  • http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Royal_MS_17_E_VII_vol_1
• British Library Additional MS 18856:
  • http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=3&ref=Add_MS_18856
• Edinburgh Uni MS 19**:
  • https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/141154

 

Selected Sources + Further Reading:

 

Blogs & Websites:

• “The Art History of All Souls.” thearthistoryofallsouls.com
• “A Medieval Medival Marvel.” https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/science/2015/04/a-medieval-medical-marvel.html?_ga=2.155175672.1104249034.1558973577-486252935.1547227424
• Rasmussen, Eric and Ian DeJong, “An introduction to The Alchemist: the artist and the con.” https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/an-introduction-to-the-alchemist
• “The Ordinal of Alchemy, 1477.” https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-ordinal-of-alchemy-1477
• “Bestiary.”http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/bestiary/
• Spiegel der Philosophen: http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/Archive/Spiegel.html

 

Abraham, Lyndy. A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.

Barber, Howard. Bestiary: Being a Version of Bodleian Library, Oxford MS Bodley 764 with All the Original Miniatures Reproduced in Facsimile.Woodbridge: Boydell Press for the Bodleian Library, 2006.

Dupré, Sven, Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk and Beat Wismer, eds. Art & Alchemy: The Mystery of Transformation. Munich: Hirmer, 2014.

Fourné, Éléonore. L’iconographie de la Bible Historiale. Tunhout: Brepols, 2012.

Harrison, Freya,  Aled Roberts, Rebecca Gabrilska, Kendra Rumbaugh, Christina Lee, and Stephen Diggle. “A 1,000 Year Old Antimicrobial Remedy with Antistaphylococcal Activity.” mBio6 (4) 2015, 1-7. https://mbio.asm.org/content/mbio/6/4/e01129-15.full.pdf

Hassig, Debra. The Mark of the Beast: The Bestiary in Art, Life, and Literature. New York: Garland, 1999.

Mittman, Asa and Susan Kim. Inconceiivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript.Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2013.

Monk, Christopher. “A Context for the sexualization of monsters in The Wonders of the East.” Anglo-Saxon England41 (2012), 79-99.

McGerr, Rosemarie Potz. “Guyart Desmoulins, the Vernacular Master of Histories, and His Bible historiale.” Viator14 (1983), 211-244.

Smith, Kathryn.Art, Identity, and Devotion in 14^thCentury England: Three Women and Their Books of Hours. London: British Library, 2003.

Silec, Tatjana and Raeleen Chai-Elsholz and Leo Carruthers, eds. Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Wamberg, Jacob, eds. Art & Alchemy. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Cophenhagen, 2006.

Wieck, Roger. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. G. Braziller, 2001.

 

 

 

[Cover Image courtesy of The All Souls Podcast!]