The Vatican and Oxford University team up to digitize 1.5 million pages of medieval manuscripts

Medievalists.net ^ | December 3, 2013

[NYer]

Interview with Archbishop Welby - YouTube Video

[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[Joe 6-pack]

Excellent post. As a dilettante calligrapher and illuminator, I thank you. Here's Psalm 40 I did for my parents' 40th anniversary :-)

[markomalley]

…IBTVB…

"They should sell all those manuscripts and give the money to the poor"

- Random FReeper

[markomalley]

Oh, if I need to say it (to post #4):

</sarc>

[NYer]

That is most impressive. Did you create this with pen and ink or with computer graphics?

[Mercat]

LOL. I was thinking that this article was the answer to “why doesn’t Francis sell the Vatican and give it all to the poor,” a post I saw on freepers a few days ago. You beat me to it.

[TalBlack]

Wow, the Vatican has a signed Maimonides Torah? Who knew? Those archives are one place I would love to stroll around and look through. It will be funny though if the original manuscripts out live the digital media that they are being saved to.

[Joe 6-pack]

Pen, ink, gold leaf, gum ammoniac, tempera and vellum...The only computer used in my artwork is to order my supplies online :-)

[BenLurkin]

Ping

[goodwithagun]

I’ve often wondered why a FReeper would write that. As conservatives, shouldn’t they know that redistribution of wealth hurts the poor even more?

[markomalley]

I’ve often wondered why a FReeper would write that. As conservatives, shouldn’t they know that redistribution of wealth hurts the poor even more?

Doesn't make much sense to me either, but I've read that very line so many times (particularly when the Holy Father talks about the poor) that I couldn't resist.

[Carriage Hill]

Ping to manuscripts digitization project.

[RichInOC]

Awesome.

[floralamiss]

Your work is so beautiful, J. This has always been one of my favorites of yours and of the psalms.

“— each man is but a breath.”

[Joe 6-pack]

Thank you dear!

[muleskinner]

In a former life, you were a monk at the Malmesbury Abby in Wiltshire, England and supervised the Scriptorium. Your Blackletter technique is first rate.

[muleskinner]

Did you use Lac and Woad for your reds and blues?

[Joe 6-pack]

"In a former life, you were a monk at the Malmesbury Abby..."

I do have a natural tonsure :-)

[Joe 6-pack]

"Did you use Lac and Woad for your reds and blues?"

I do occasionally grind my own pigments, but in the case of my Psalm 40, I was on a timeline to complete it and get it matted and framed for my parents' anniversary. As much as possible, I do try to limit my palette to those pigments that would have been available in the middle ages (or cheaper synthetic equivalents where the actual pigments are cost prohibitive, overly toxic, or too chemically unstable for conservation purposes).