I am so impressed with the way you are following your passion and dreams. The best of luck to you and congratulations on your upcoming graduation!!

Nancy

I haven’t posted for a while, and I apologize. I was hoping more discussion would evolve around the nice links that have been posted here. I want to research those manuscripts and post information about them.

For those that may not know,I found the noted locations of the four codices from the Oxford Cantigas de Santa Maria Database and I quote:” Four contemporary manuscripts survive: To (the Toledo MS, now in the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid), T (the códice rico, in the Escorial Library, E (the códice de los músicos, also in the Escorial) and F (the Florence MS, in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence). They represent at least three different compilations or stages in the elaboration of the Cantigas Project: an early collection of 100 poems to which appendices were added (To); followed by a much expanded and highly ornamental collection of 400 (T+F) of which the second volume (F) was left in an incomplete and possibly disordered state; and a reference collection of 400 (E) with many imperfections and signs of hasty completion.” As the scholars here have said it better than I, I thought it was important to mention their database.

Now we know where to find these original manuscripts should any of us be traveling to Spain or Italy.

Please post about other medieval manuscripts, where they are found, or where their Facsimiles are found.

Until next time,

Julie

I will be happy to post the images of your needlework. My email address is carmen.julie@gmail.com

I look forward to seeing your work.

Julie

Thank you for this great link. I hope others will visit it as well.

Julie

Here’s how to make a medieval book.
A kids activity but fun anyway.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1220_gothic/pdf/make_a_medieval_book.pdf

Barbara

Here is the URL for the Codex Manesse.
http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848/

I’d be happy to post my JPG of the needlework but I don’t know how to do that.
I can’t “paste” it here. Please tell me what to do.
or send me your email address.
Barbara

I did not know that the Cantigas is totally online. Can you post it here?

Also, I would love to see your work, is there anyway you can post a photo of it?

Thanks for posting and I hope to hear from you again!

Julie

Try this web site for sources of digital images:
http://toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium/

Try searching using the terms
Medieval cross stitch
or
Medieval embroidery
for kits and patterns

not exactly what you mean but fun any way.

My first needlepoint, done with a kit bought in Switzerland was a page from the
Cod. Pal. germ. 848
Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse)

Do you know that the entire Codex is online?

You have done beautiful work!

Barbara Hass, retired K-12 librarian, LaSalle,CO