Ancient art and art from antiquity and cultural treasures from the past

this is fucking beautiful when i had dreams of becoming a conservator this is what i was dreaming about

 

Never seen this before and it's so beautiful - the light! the shading! the empathy ! - and it's pretty damn old...

 

this is amazingly well preserved:





Oldest known book from the medieval age, unique in terms of the preservation. St Cuthberts Gospel. Over a thousand years old.

there an anglo-saxon exhibition starting in october at the BL where this will be. I might go, from further reading they have managed to amass quite a haul of rare and old stuff from the time. Also when reading about this: Apparently the orthodox church still produces jeweled binding books.


British Library acquires the St Cuthbert Gospel the earliest intact European book

edited for spelling