Hello! I'm an artist who for a long time wished for a discord dedicated to the creation of medieval book-arts, like illumination and bookbinding. So I made one!

It'd be a place for learning historic painting techniques, finding references for research and reproduction, and sharing your work with other artists who share the same interests!

https://discord.gg/t6saCvPy4Y

Tried to recreate this medieval veterinarian and his patient from a 15th-century French manuscript spread titled “Illnesses of Dogs and Their Cures.” The manuscript, “Book of the Hunt” by Gaston Phébus, is at the Condé museum. I have a lovely reproduction of this spread in one of my favorite art books, “Cani nell’ Arte” (“Dogs in Art”) by Stefano Zuffi.

I took liberty with the color of the jacket, so that overall image works better as a handmade postcard.

This sounds blasphemous but I am hoping to recreate illuminated style art digitally using paint brush style tools in procreate, as I have a concept design I’m hoping to create for a poster.

Has anyone attempted this successfully, or would it be better practice to paint on paper/real life and digitise the design? I have a vision in my head that I’m really hoping to execute but unsure the practicality.

My wife and I are working on a personal research project, and we've found an image of a marginalia rodent that is attributed to the Oscott Psalter, but it's a very close-cropped image, and we were hoping to see the text surrounding it to get some context.

Unfortunately, due to last year's cyberattack on the British Library, the current home of the manuscript, only a few pages of it are available on their website, and who knows when that will get fixed.

So I was hoping reddit could do some reddit magic and direct me to someone or somewhere that might have a digitized copy of the text in a personal collection.

But, as many of the top posts in this subreddit indicate, It's not looking likely.

@kali.graphos

Does anyone know what manuscripts, especially with illumination, has the best examples of Gothic textura quadrata. I am working on a project and want to know what would be the most stylistically appropriate.

I’m looking to recreate a medieval Book of Hours on a book I’ve recently made. Ideally I would have first illustrated the pages then bound them but that was unfortunately not an option. I needed to find a manuscript that would roughly fit into 80 pages and the Taymouth hours seemed like it might work.

My only issue is that the only digitally facsimile I could find of the Taymouth hours is on the British Library’s website, which is currently dysfunctional due to a cyber attack several months ago. Does anyone know somewhere else where I can find a digital facsimile of the text? Alternatively, would anyone else happen to know of another book of hours that could roughly fit in about 80 pages?

If you can manage to help me find it, I’ll include a reference to your username in the miniatures somewhere (if possible).

I was falling into a Wikipedia rabbithole on illuminated manuscripts and found some with particularly beautiful and engaging art and text, and it led me to want to find bound reproductions of some of these works that are as faithful as possible to the original material. Particularly I was interested in finding one for the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse and also of The Book of Kells. However, when I looked online for a while, I was unable to really find anything that was like what I was looking for. I could find books of prints of the miniatures in a lot of the manuscripts, but I couldn't find full 1:1 replicas of the volumes themselves. Does anyone on here know of any place I could find something like that? (Ideally as faithful as possible, I'm thinking the same aspect ratios and form factors, low grain on prints, as close as it gets to a page for page replica)

Thanks in advance to anyone who may have any info, this seems like a really cool community and I have a lot of admiration for your creations :)

Igno