We are fascinated by this collection of miniatures found in a 1,000 year old manuscript, which has English or Northern France roots.
Showcasing medieval medical procedures and more, the illustrations have a delightful simplicity to them, but also a unique look back, way back, in time.
Via The Public Domain Review:
“Wonderful series of miniatures from a late 12th-century manuscript thought to hail from England or Northern France, once owned by the monastery at Ourscamps just north of Paris, and now in the collection at the British Library (BL Sloane 1975).
As well as the delightfully abstract depictions of herbal plants (including Cannabis), a variety of medieval medical procedures are also shown, such as cauterization and the removal of haemorrhoids.
The manuscript is home to more than two-hundred of these images, below is a selection of some of our favourites.”
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