From the post:
Welcome to the sixteenth instalment of our popular Guess the Manuscript series. The rules are simple: we post an image of part of a manuscript that is on the British Library’s Digitised Manuscripts site, you guess which one it’s taken from!
Are you as surprised as we are to find an umbrella in a medieval manuscript? The manuscript from which this image was taken will feature in a blogpost in the near future.
In the meantime, answers or guesses please in the comments below, or via Twitter @BLMedieval.
Caution! The Medieval Period lasted from five hundred (500) C.E. until fifteen hundred (1500) C.E. Google NGrams records the first use of “umbrella” at or around sixteen-sixty (1660). Is this an “umbrella” or something else?
Using Google’s reverse image search found only repostings of the image search challenge, no similar images. Not sure that helps but was worth a try.
On the bright side, there are only two hundred and fifty-seven (257) manuscripts in the digitized collection dated between five hundred (500) C.E. until fifteen hundred (1500) C.E.
What stories or information can be found in those volumes that might be accompanied by such an image? Need to create a list of the classes of those manuscripts.
Suggestions? Is there an image processor in the house?
Enjoy!