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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Index of Medieval Art will be holding an online training session for anyone interested in using the database on Monday, October 5, 2026 from 10:00 – 11:00 am EDT. Info and registration here: ima.princeton.edu/index_traini.... Image: Cantigas de Santa María, RBME MS B.I.2, fol. 313v.

A manuscript painting of a man in a tunic, playing a bagpipe against a patterned ground. Galician Portuguese text appears above the painting.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Please save the date for the next Index of Medieval Art conference, "Thinking with Medieval Images!"

Detail of a manuscript page with a blue and red Latin inscription framing a roundel set into a square with red and white patterned corners. The roundel contains a large, haloed female figure labeled PHYLOSOPHYA, who is seated with her hands resting on smaller half-circles containing women labeled PHYSICA and LOGICA; at her feet is a third half-circle containing a woman labeled ETHICA.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Index on the go! This weekend Art History Specialist Jessica Savage and Index student worker Brooke Jurgenson consulted the Index while visiting the exhibition "Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life," now on view through January 4th at the Morgan Library and Museum.

A person’s hand holding a mobile phone with an open database record of the Index of Medieval Art displaying the color images of a manuscript, which match an open book on display in a museum glass case. The open book is decorated with figures and scenes, including a ship being built and sailing on waves. Museum label text partly visible in foreground.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Free registration is now open for "Art and Proof in the Ninth Century" on Dec. 6. Please join us if you can! More info at ima.princeton.edu/conferences/

A manuscript page with a square field of letters, including several geometric shapes.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Index friends: We have completed cataloging of the print textile records in the database! Read more at ima.princeton.edu/2025/10/07/a...

A photograph of a pair of gloves decorated with roundels and trim, placed flat on a red mount and behind display glass, a work of art above on the wall. In the foreground right, a mobile phone screen shows the same item in the Index of Medieval Art database.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Have a good #IndexHumpDay (Eliezer taking oath, Bible, Amiens, Bib. Mun. MS 108, fol. 13v).

A manuscript page with two large stacked scenes with lines of Latin text above and below them. The upper scene depicts a seated man raising his hand while another man kneels in front of him; the lower one shows a boy riding a camel, accompanies by three more camels.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Interested in learning more about how to use the Index of Medieval Art in your research? Join our free online tutorial on Oct. 7, 2025! Click through to sign up: ima.princeton.edu/.../next-onl.... (Musician, Cantigas de Santa María, RBME, MS B.I.2, fol. 313v).

A man wearing a white cap and playing a red bagpipe with gold pipes, against a patterned red ground.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Have a good #IndexHumpDay (Mosaic pavement, Church of the Martyrs, Mādabā, Jordan, 550–620).

A mosaic of a man in a patterned robe and pointed hat leading a camel by a rein, all within a landscape with trees.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Have a good #IndexHumpDay (9th century carving on the back of a sixth-century consular diptych, Musée du Louvre, Paris)

An ivory plaque careved with human, animal, and mythological figures, including centaurs, sirens, satyrs, an elephant, and a camel.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Have a good #IndexHumpDay! (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 88, fol. 16r.

A detail of a manuscript page with a red rectangle containing a line drawing of a camel walking to the right on a green background. Writing can be seen around the border of the image, and some of the illustration on the next page is visible through a small hole near the camel's forward leg.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A classic for this #IndexHumpDay (Detail from the Bayeux Embroidery, Normandy, 1066–1083)

An embroidered textile with images of men riding horses, some of them pointing to an inscription, and upper and lower borders containing a variet of animals, including birds and camels.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Keep on going, it's #IndexHumpDay! (Camel, manuscript detail, Ashmole Bestiary, Oxford, Bodleian Lib., MS Ashmole1511, fol. 31v.)

A detail of a manuscript page depicting a nude man riding a camel, against a gold ground. Latin text is found at the left and upper margin of the image.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This #IndexHumpDay, we thank Erik Gustafson for sharing this amazing medieval camel!

Set in an outdoor space, a trapezoidal architectural block carved with a figure of a camel followed by a male figure holding its tail in one hand and a whip in the other.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Stepping forward with determination on this #IndexHumpDay (Northumberland Bestiary, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS. 100, folio 30r).

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Lots of luck on this #IndexHumpDay (London, British Library, Harley 4751, folio 24r)

A detail of a manuscript page depicting a camel facing to the right, against a field of nested gold, blue, and red rectangles.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Someone is quite surprised to learn that it's #IndexHumpDay already! L’Image du Monde / Bestiaire of Pierre de Beauvais (Bibliothèque Universitaire Historique de Médecine, MS H. 437), folio 105r, 14th century.

Detail of a manuscript page with two simply framed images of a camel and a dromedary leaping against a red ground. The camel has its mouth open.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Big news at the Index! ima.princeton.edu/2025/04/01/i...

A manuscript detail with a leafy red letter B on a blue field. inside the letter is a robed, haloed figure with three faces; he holds a book and raises his right hand.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Hugs to all our medievalist friends on International Hug a Medievalist Day! (King Cepheus, British Library MS Arundel 66 f.34)

A detail of a medieval manuscript depicting a man in a red tunic opening his arms wide, before a patterned background and a starry sky. He is flanked by two scrolls with Gothic writing.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It's #IndexHumpDay again! Stay safe from griffins if you can (Rutland Psalter, London, British Library, Additional MS 62925, folio 14v, c1260)

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Have a good #IndexHumpDay! (Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders, 12th–early 13th c, probably Iran or Iraq; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1964, no. 64.59).

A turquoise-colored ceramic figurine of a camel carrying a house-shaped structure on its back.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Bactrian camel, MS. 61, folio 27r, 13th century. Saint John’s College Library, Saint John’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. #IndexHumpDay

A painting of a camel against a rose-colored ground with stars.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Another #IndexHumpDay. Let's do our best to make it a good one. (Bowl with camel caravan, late 12th-early 13th century [Seljuq?], 48.1054. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

A round ceramic plate with a saddled camel in the center, surrounded by a band of camels and palm trees framed by bands of abstract ornament.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Index friends, The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes is back online! Ever wonder whose feast day is March 3? If you said Eutropius, Cleonicus and Basiliscus of Pontus, you'd be correct!

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The Index | The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It's #IndexHumpDay! (Joseph, Sold to Ishmaelites, Prayer Book of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, Ms. Ludwig IX 19, fol. 94, 1525 – 1530, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California)

A manuscript page with a large block of red and black text, including red and blue initials and an ornate gold letter H on a green groud. Surrounding the text is a landscape with trees and hills in which a group of male figures beside a well present a captive to a turbaned man while another waits with pack camels.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Index friends, please enjoy our latest Guestbook interview with Prof. Herbert Kessler here: ima.princeton.edu/.../index-gu...

A detail of a lined notebook containing multiple signatures in various hands, with one signature line highlighted.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Index users, please join us for an online tutorial on using the Index of Medieval Art database, March 25 at 12 noon Eastern/New York time. A free registration link is found here: ima.princeton.edu/.../next-onl...

A painted panel with three arches on top depicting a veiled woman, with her outstretched arms grasping her opened mantle, also held by a pair of angels holding flowers. Beneath the mantle, two groups of kneeling male and female figures, some wearing religious clothing and some crowned.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happy #IndexHumpDay! Bactrian camel, earthenware with traces of pigment, Tang dynasty, 7th – 8th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Happy #IndexHumpDay (Votive relief [?], Psyche, goddess of the soul on a camel, 3rd, or 2nd century BC. Musée du Louvre, Paris, Île-de-France, France

A stone relief with a carving of a camel ridden by figure on an elaborate saddle.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Happy #IndexHumpDay to our friends on Bluesky! (Ferial Psalter, M.934, fol. 35r, detail, 1495-1498. Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York, United States).

A manuscript painting in which a camel, an ox, and two birds kneel in front of a group of kneeling figures, all in a landscape with a city in the distance.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Good wishes for the holidays from the Index of Medieval Art! (Personification of Sun or Sol, mosaic pavement, Hammath Tiberias, Synagogue B, panel 2, detail). ima.princeton.edu/2024/12/19/h...

Detail of a mosaic depicting a half figure of man wearing a red chlamys and rayed crown, raising his right hand, and holding a round celestial object in his left hand. The mosaic has a semi-circular border on top and fragmentary bottom edge.

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The Index of Medieval Art @imaprinceton.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

We're still new to Bluesky, so we're a day late with our #IndexHumpDay wishes. Hope it was great all the same! (Book of Hours, Garrett 57, fol. 62v, 1495 – 1505. Princeton University Library)

Three richly dressed men bringing golden objects to a seated woman holding a baby, in front of a building in which are a donkey and an ox. In the backgroun is a group of men with camels and a city in the far distance

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