For centuries monastic scribes have been copying books, preserving heritage of their times as well as of Antiquity. The first benedictine Abbey in Poland introducing the art of calligraphy and illumination was the Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec near Cracow. 2018 was announced “A Year of a Book” in Tyniec and…
Gay couple in medieval manuscript?
In my previous post on “Roman de la Rose” I mentioned two illuminated manuscripts kept in the Polish libraries and available in the service Polona.pl. The Warsaw manuscript is a typical French production of the late 14th century, but the one now in Cracow is actually quite weird and problematic…