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Medievalist. Manuscript studies, 15th-century Burgundy, French literature, art, culture, Digital Humanities. Retired. https://jessehurlbut.net
Poster announcing a talk by Jesse Hurlbut on October 23, 2025 at the Fulton Library at UVU at 1 PM. The title of the talk is "Comic Book Literacy for Monumental Art."
Comics theory, medieval art, Celtic coins and contemporary stained glass come together in a single talk next week.
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A man rides a white horse out of a gaping hellmouth filled with flames and the souls of the damned. An eagle hovers over the scene waving a flowing banderole.
Pale Rider
British Library, Add ms 17399, f.17r
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A capital C (one-line height) in brown ink with an elaborate red pen flourish (extending over 11 lines in height)
Big flourish for a small capital
British Library
Add ms 15603, f.55v.
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Two "terrobolem" stones, male and female, when brought close together, spontaneously ignite and create a raging fire.
Two "terrobolem" stones, male and female, when brought close together, spontaneously ignite and create a raging fire.
Bestiary
British Library, Add ms 11283, f.41r.
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A line drawing of a deer. Pinpricks in the vellum trace the outline. Additional pinpricks are visible corresponding to another drawing on the verso.
Pinpricks allow the transfer of a drawing from one sheet of vellum to another.
Bestiary
British Library, Add ms 11283, f.6r.
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A serpent wrapped around the trunk of a fruit-bearing tree offers a piece of round fruit in its mouth. A hand reaches into the frame to take the fruit.
Temptation
The โMoutier-Grandval Bibleโ
British Library, Add MS 10546, f. 5v.
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A series of colorful arches spanning between columns adorn the canon tables of a nineth-century Bible.
Canon Table Arcade
The โMoutier-Grandval Bibleโ
British Library, Add MS 10546, f. 351r.
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The blank space at the end of a verse is filled with the silhouette of a running hare.
Hare Line Filler
The โMoutier-Grandval Bibleโ
British Library, Add MS 10546, f. 7r.
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Spring Blossoms
Majmuโa / ู
ุฌู
ูุนู
British Library, Add ms 7914, f. 70r.
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Shepherds abiding in the field
British Library, Arundel ms 157, f.3v.
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Crossing Borders
[Muntakhab-i] Dฤซvฤn-i Navฤโฤซ / ู
ูุชุฎุจ ุฏููุงู ููุงุฆู
British Library, Or 3493, f. 3r.
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Orion's Belt
Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS. 92, fol. 90v.
A 12th-century diagram illustrating the movement of the Sun from solstice to equinox with a series of orbs arrayed within a set of concentric circles.
Cursus Solis Solsticialis
How does this work again?
Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent
Liber Floridus, HS. 92, fol. 25r.
The beginning of the book of Jeremiah. The word 'Verba' is ornately decorated.
Verba is the Word
I'm not sure what astonishes me more, the color palette, the unusual blend of motifs, or perhaps the casual stylistic insouciance in the midst of rigorous structure and symmetry?
Montpellier Bible
British Library, Harley ms 4772, f.209v.
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Refined Lines
This manuscript has many extremely large capitals richly decorated with blue and red line art, but I find the smaller inter-columnar ones like this one just as arresting!
Lancelot du Lac
British Library, Harley ms 4419, f.30r.
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St. Denys gazes over an elaborate diapered background.
St. Denys from the nicely illustrated "Vie de saint Denys et ses compaignons."
British Library, Harley ms 4409, f.10r.
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In Capable Hands
British Library, Harley ms 4399, f.59v.
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#Digulleville
A group of men with hands clasped, kneel and gaze intently upward.
May I Have Your Undivided Attention?
British Library, Harley ms 4372, f.140r
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Bearded Scribe with Knot
British Library, Cotton MS Claudius A III, f.30r.
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Just Around the Corner
Lindisfarne Gospels
British Library, Cotton MS Nero D IV, fols. 3r, 5v, 6r, 6v.
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The Latin word "Mirabilis" with an ornate capital M and accompanying musical notation.
Amazing!
Graduale van de Sint-Baafsabdij te Gent, HS 14, fol. 40r.
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Digitized page of an early printed book in latin; below the text block is the quire signature, 'lz.i.' with 'lz' instead of the letter 'k'.
Found one! Apparently regularly occurs in French publications, esp. by Estienne. In this case, Juris orientalis libri III (1573), digitized: books.google.be/books?id=m4x...
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Le Corbeau et le Renard
BnF. Dรฉpartement des Manuscrits. Smith-Lesouรซf 68, 32v.
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Curlicue Border
Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent,
Graduale van de Sint-Baafsabdij te Gent, BHSL.HS.0014, ff. 79v-80r.
