Sara Charles

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Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady. www.teachingmanuscripts.com PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.

Conference programme for The Ethics of the Scribe workshop at Freie Universität, Berlin
Stall displaying materials of medieval manuscript making
Stalls set up at the IMC and people browsing the goods on display
Table set out with materials used in making medieval manuscripts. Brightly coloured pigments in shells are in the foreground
A bat sleeping on a pillar in an abbey
Looking down onto a street in Rouen, lined with medieval style houses and an abbey at the end of the street
A selection of materials for medieval manuscripts including oak galls, goose feathers and pigments
A selection of various materials for manuscript making, including goose feathers, oak galls and pigments
Willow staked in the ground in a circle with a white cat examining it
Laura Varnam reading her poetry
Senate house in the sunshine
Copy of medieval miniature of dragon with tongue sticking out and wings raised on a brown rock. Original from Getty Museum, MS. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 89
St Peter’s church, Preston park
Ragdoll cat laying louchy on a plan of Catte Street
A close up of a marble gall from an oak tree with a perfect circle where the gall wasp chewed its way out
Medieval manuscript miniature of a seated scribe holding a quill and knife over ruled parchment inside a decorated initial (GKS 4 folio III, fol. 165r)
Madder pigment in an oyster shell
Ragdoll cat plonked on top of laptop to prevent the human doing any work
Three cats in a wooded area
Blackthorn bush with purple berries (sloes)
Paperback copies of The Medieval Scriptorium in a box
English oak tree laden with acorns and knopper galls
A postal delivery of A History of England in 25 Poems by Catherine Clarke
Traitor’s Gate, Tower of London
Text reads: 25% off on upcoming books. Pre-order now with code: SUMMER25. 28-31 July. Online only. Image of book cover
Text reads: Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Gold writing surrounded by medieval marginalia
Close up of a peasant sowing seeds and looking extremely disgruntled. From the September image of the manuscript Très riches heures of Jean, Duke of Berry
Early medieval dress
Embroidery in Bayeux tapestry style
Various medieval pigments on display
Open page of Irish Gospels of St Gall, showing the beginning of Mark
Manuscript fragment of evangelist Matthew as scribe
Copies of the Medieval Scriptorium in the National Library of Ireland shop
View of garden from corner of cloister at Abbaye-aux-Hommes, Caen
Two documents on linen paper that are copies of forged arrest warrants in Latin
Scallop shells full of medieval pigments- yellow ochre, red lead, verdigris and carbon black
Image from Hamburg Bible, Copenhagen, GKS 4 folio III, fol. 208r of a seated secular painter wearing a medieval coif (hat) and blue robe
Two small jars of ink on the right, one labelled Apple Gall Ink, the other labelled Iron Gall Ink. To the left is parchment rolled up and in the foreground is a quill
Red box of Essex Tea with mug of tea to the left
St Andrews church in the sunshine
Woman wearing protective goggles and using a claw chisel to carve into a block of limestone on a table