Moritz Draschner

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PhD student researching Floire et Blancheflor in Middle English, Middle Dutch and Anglo-Norman at HHU Düsseldorf 🤓📜📚

Many pages of LTK 191‘s "Roman van Ferguut" opened in a way that shows the left columns‘ illustrated initials as if the manuscript was a flipbook.
A close-up of one page from LTK 1205: two columns of text, each of which has a big, illustrated initial. One of them is a bird of some kind, the other a snake or dragon.
An un-bound double leaf from LTK 2040‘s "Floris ende Blancefloer" laying on a table with my Apple Pencil for scale: the spread is barely wider than the length of the stylus.
The beginning of "Floris ende Blancefloer‘s" third segment: half the page has been cut away, leaving one imperfect column of text that itself has faded.
A close-up shot of where the first two segments of "Floris ende Blancefloer" meet: two pages have been cut out and only leave narrow slices of parchment.
LTK 191 above LTK 2040, the two only surviving manuscript witnesses of "Floris ende Blancefloer".