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CMEMS Mission
Stanford CMEMS is a multidisciplinary community working together to produce new perspectives on medieval and early modern studies. The mission of CMEMS is to promote innovative research and foster a lively dialogue among faculty, students, librarians, and research affiliates, to rethink the nature of the field across time, space, and disciplinary boundaries, and to explore the significance of these earlier periods for our understanding of today's world.
Spotlight
ANNUNCIATION
Fra Angelico, c. 1440, San Marco Museum, Florence.
HOURS OF CATHERINE OF CLEVES
Meester van Catharina van Kleef, c. 1440, Morgan Library and Museum.
PYTHON
from Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium, Lower Rhineland, c. 1760, Yale Beinicke Library
DECAMERON
Boccaccio (Leonardo Salviati's expurgated edition), 1588, Bibliothèque de Toulouse
ANATOMICAL DRAWING
from Ibn Ilyās, Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad, Tashrīh-i Mansūrī (Mansūr’s Anatomy), c. 1384, Yale University Library
DE ARTE MAGNETICA
Athanasius Kircher, Rome, 1641, Yale Beinecke Library
CREATION OF FISH AND BIRDS
Mosaic in the Cathedral at Monreale (Sicily), 12th C, photo courtesy of Michael Wyatt
THE SECOND FOOLISH VIRGIN
Martin Schongauer, 15th C, Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
VIEWS OF ADEN, MOMBAZA, QUILOA AND CEFALA
Cologne, 1572, Stanford University Libraries
MINIATURE OF ST. JEROME
Book of Hours and Psalter, Bruges, [1450?], Stanford Special Collections
BROADSHEET OF A DECREE BY ELIZABETH I
Published immediately following the Essex Rebellion, London, 1600, Stanford Special Collections
BIRD OF PARADISE AND LIZARD
Johannes Teyler, Netherlands, 17th C., Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
VIEW OF STRASBOURG
Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, Stanford Special Collections
CERAMIC BOWL
Mexico, 14th-15th C, Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
BUDDHA SHAKYAMANI
China, 16th C, Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL'S SIGNATURE
from a page of Messiah, 'Who shall abide the day of his coming', [date and provenance?]
CELESTIAL MAP SHOWING THE COMET OF 1742
Matthaeus Seutter, Augsburg, 1742, Yale Beinecke Library
TOKALDO NARABINI SAIGOKU DOCHU EZO
MIno Komaki, 1687, East Asian Library, UC Berkeley
MOSTEIRO DOS JERÓNIMOS
Belém, Portugal,1515-1521, photo courtesy of Laura Méndez Barletta
KORAN
13th C, courtesy of Yale Beinecke Library
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