Information and Musings on C&I and Research in the SCA
That moment when you click on a link for a book, fully expecting to be taken to an Amazon or University Press page, but instead get a digitized copy with a download link.
So please enjoy Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages, by Melanie Holcomb in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The MOMA has a lot of books to download, actually. It was just nice to stumble on this one unexpectedly.
Oh boy, DO I.
Chinese textile designs, by Hanyu Gao
1992
WorldCat (find it in a library near you!)
When silk was gold : Central Asian and Chinese textiles, by James C Y Watt et al
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1997
WorldCat
Corpus of Chinese Fabric, Embroidery and Finery: Dying & Weaving
Corpus of Chinese Fabric, Embroidery and Finery: Embroidery
2004
Published by
Tianjin People’s Fine Arts Publishing House
Library of Congress (all volumes)
Treasures in silk : an illustrated history of Chinese textiles, by
Feng Zhao
1999
WorldCat
Chinese textiles, by
Yueh-Siang Chang
Victoria and Albert Museum
2010
History of textile technology of ancient China, by
Weiji Cheng
1992
WorldCat
Exquisite fabrics : traditional weaving and embroidery patterns in China, by Chunming Gao
2010
WorldCat
Chinese Silks, by Dieter Kuhn, et al.
2012
WorldCat
Additionally, please join us over at SCA China on Facebook. We’re great at sharing resources.Happy hunting! <3
Names of Jews in Medieval Navarre (13th–14th centuries)
If you’re writing Medieval historical lit or pseudo-medieval fantasy and need a way to name your Jewish side-characters (we were there!) here’s a site that could be of some assistance. This is about the Iberian peninsula, but people travel… and the past thousand years have seen a lot of us being kicked out of various countries so even if your setting isn’t Spain or Portugal, these may still be useful.
–Shira
Boosting for SCAdian usage.
Illuminated manuscripts were products of encounter, exchange, and exploration in the Middle Ages.
Interested in the Global Middle Ages? This weekend, April 16 and 17, come by our free interdisciplinary symposium that examines artists, patrons, and audiences as agents who desired real, imagined, or exotic representations and narratives about the world and its peoples.
These artworks are currently on view in Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts at the Getty Center through June 26.
Without knowing gender, I’ll keep this pretty vague.
I’ve also got a request out to the Facebook Group, SCA Garb, for more resources. They can be really helpful folk.
Clothing culture, 1350-1650
Author:Catherine Richardson
Publisher:Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2004.
Series:History of retailing and consumption.
Summary:From Russia to Rome, Ireland to France, this volume contains a wealth of examples of the numerous ways clothing was shaped by, and helped to shape, medieval and early modern European society.
Dress in Ireland
Author:Mairead Dunlevy
Publisher:New York : Holmes & Meier, 1989.
Encyclopedia of dress and textiles in the British Isles c. 450-1450
Author:Gale R Owen-Crocker; Elizabeth Coatsworth; Maria Hayward
Publisher:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Sources for Irish Re-enactors, from the Reconstructing History blog – includes a bibliography
Good luck, and have fun!
No, but I can find some. I’m a librarian! 😀
(Sorry – I just did a binge-watch of all The Librarian movies to gear myself up for the TV show. Every time he announced, “I’m The Librarian,” I giggled.)
OKAY SO.
To start, how about the The Codex Assemanianus?
It was probably 10th century, but it’s still cool. You can read more about it here [link], and there are two pages of scans from it [link] [link]. Quite a few of these pages would be really easy to translate into SCA awards. I might do a few blanks myself for our current blank drive… Here are a couple of my favorites:
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f. 10r
</p></But if we want to be firmly in the 11th Century, how about the Ostromir Gospels? These date to 1056-7. You can find more info at the National Library of Russia [link]. I’ve known scribes who have used this. That is, looking at it, I’m going “OH HEY. This is what so-and-so used!” Have a sample:
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Lastly, there is the Arkhangelsk Gospel, also know as the Archangel Gospel, which dates to 1092, making it the fourth oldest Slavic manuscript we have. You can view the whole thing online at the Russia State Library [link].
Have fun browsing!
The British Library has a lot of digitized manuscripts online, which is awesome for SCA Scribes. Two of their best known treasures haven’t yet made the move from their old site, “Digitized Manuscripts”, to the new one, “Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts” – the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Luttrell Psalter. That’s because the Lindisfarne is a Cotton manuscript and the Luttrell is an Additional, and both of these collections haven’t yet made the transition yet.
The old site (DM) is actually really cool – when you click “View Bindings,” you get a viewer that allows you to page through the digitized manuscript and zoom in on elements. The new site (CIM) only gives you one high-res image and one slightly smaller one (in additional to thumbnails). They do have some detail scans, but it’s not the same (as you can imagine).
Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero D.IV)
Luttrell Psalter (Add MS 42130)
You can see the BL’s Access/Reuse/Copyright notes concerning images here: [Link]
Images used in this post are from Wikipedia.
Queen Elizabeth’s Wardrobe Unlock’d is being reprinted as a paperback ($69.26).
Full Title: Queen Elizabeth’s wardrobe unlock’d : the inventories of the Wardrobe of Robes prepared in July 1600, edited from Stowe MS 557 in the British Library, MS LR 2/121 in the Public Record Office, London, and MS V.b.72 in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
Author: Janet Arnold
Publisher’s Description: The vast wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth I is legendary: in her own time some of the richly embroidered gowns were displayed with other treasures to dazzle the eyes of foreign visitors to the Tower of London. The quantity of clothes recorded in the inventories taken in 1600 would seem to suggest sheer vanity, but a survey of work carried out in the Wardrobe of Robes throughout the reign reveals a different picture. It is one of careful organisation and economy. This copiously annotated work is illustrated with photographs of portraits, miniatures, tomb sculptures, engravings, woven textiles and embroideries. Two indexes are provided, the first of paintings, persons, places, and events, while the second, partly a glossary, enables the reader to quickly trace information on fashionable dress and accessories. An invaluable reference for students of the history of dress and embroidery, for social historians, for art historians working in the field of portraiture, and those with a general interest in the period.
Goodreads Reviews – Average rating is 4.65/5
Amazon – Pre-order available
Don’t want to buy it? See what library near you has it! (Or ILL it from your Friendly Neighborhood Reference Librarian.)