Recently discovered Fiore manuscript

[lklawson]

I'm surprised I haven't seen it reported here. It seems to be burning up the WMA 'net. Apparently, about a year ago, Ken Mondschein found a previously unknown Fiore manuscript, by accident, misfiled in a Paris collection.

He paid to have it scanned (not an insignificant amount) and now low-res images have shown up online (not good enough quality to read the verses, but you can kinda make out most of the illustrations if you squint).

The text is, apparently, short verses or couplets in Latin and the illustrations are color. Current thinking is that it doesn't show much "new" but the illustrasions show slight differences (according to those who know).

Ken claims that he is going to be publishing it but it may take some time.

http://images.bnf.fr/jsp/index.jsp?contexte=accueil&destination=accueil.jsp

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

Hey Kirk nice find.

Though could you localize the link to get us to the pictures easier.

 

[arnisador]

Cool! Thanks for sharing that news!

 

[lklawson]

Though could you localize the link to get us to the pictures easier.

I don't think so, but, one of the guys somewhere did make a PDF collecting the low-res images into one source.

Gimme a sec and I'll see if I can find it.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

 

[lklawson]

http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=16138