{"id":962,"date":"2012-10-05T09:35:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T09:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.stefanschleifer.com\/codex\/?p=962"},"modified":"2013-03-28T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T15:32:09","slug":"ms-oxford-bodley-264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"Illustrating The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1041\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Bod2641r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1041\" class=\" wp-image-1041    \" title=\"Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 1r\" alt=\"Opening illumination of Bodley 264\" src=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Bod2641r-207x300.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Bod2641r-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Bod2641r.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exquisite artwork is a hallmark of this manuscript.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The picture on the right is from one of the most beautiful manuscripts to be found in late medieval England, and which is now kept in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, where it is called MS Bodley 264.\u00a0 Yet the extraordinary detail and craftsmanship of its illumination is only the beginning of the story it has to tell, for this is a book made in two countries, in two centuries, and in two languages.<\/p>\n<p>Looking closely at this one survivor from the past is like looking through a window into how books were made, used and re-used in the Middle Ages, and how their ideas of what a \u2018book\u2019 or an \u2018author\u2019 was differed from, and also helped to shape, our own understandings of the same words.\u00a0 We can also find tantalising traces of the many individuals \u2013 craftsmen, scribes and owners \u2013 who each played their part in the life-story of the manuscript, through the marks they have left on it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=965\">But is this one book or several?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(Images reproduced by kind permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">http:\/\/image.ox.ac.uk\/show-all-openings?collection=bodleian&amp;manuscript=msbodl264)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture on the right is from one of the most beautiful manuscripts to be found in late medieval England, and which is now kept in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, where it is called MS Bodley 264.\u00a0 Yet the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}