[MR] History Blog: Medieval Female Illuminator

Garth Groff and Sally Sanford mallardlodge1000 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 01:28:41 PST 2019


Noble Friends, Especially our Scribes:

Today the History Blog reports on an exciting find from a 11th-12th century
cemetery at an obscure convent in Germany. While studying the teeth of
skeletons excavated from the convent graveyard, scientists were amazed to
discover one with traces of lapaz lazuli. This was a rare and very
expensive pigment used in illuminated manuscripts. Their conclusion is that
the woman was an illuminator, and by the rarity of the pigment, an artist
of great skill. She apparently licked her brushes.

The whole story is found at http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/53944 .

Yours Aye,

Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge  🦆


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