Scriptoriums

Scribes in the medeival and early renaissance monastaries copied incunables in Scriptoriums. On this page, I've collected some images from across the web.

 

"This late 15th-century miniature of Jean Miélot (d. 1472)^[1] depicts the author at work: he is shown compiling his Miracles de Nostre Dame, in which this miniature appears." Wikipedia: Scriptorium 

Scriptorium Monk at Work, Blades, William: “Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges” (1891)

 

Initial, Rooklooster monk writing in a Scriptorium, 15th c manuscript, Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 213, fol. 2r 

St Birgitta, Revelationes, 1500, Nuremburg, Anthony Koberger 

"the Chigi Codex (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Chigi C VIII 234), a lavish manuscript prepared in the scriptorium of Alamire in Brussels/Mechelen soon after Ockeghem’s death in 1497." 

The book fool, Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff), by Sebastian Brant, 1497. Gutenberg's Legacy.