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A Medieval Woman Artist and Musician at Work: The Gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock

Medieval illuminated manuscripts were produced collaboratively by groups of artists and craftspeople – including scribes, illuminators, pigment and parchment preparers, and book binders – whose identities were usually unrecorded. Though some of these manuscripts have been attributed, usually by stylistic … Continue reading

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A Scrolling Facsimile of the Bayeux “Tapestry” in Marquand

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99107157823506421 In 2020, the controversial “Brexit” finally severed a relatively new (less than fifty years) bond between Britain and Europe. Marquand Library recently acquired an unusual item that recorded a much earlier, even more tumultuous change in the relationship between … Continue reading

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