Publication on illustrations of animals in ‘Sextus Placitus’

Title: Fellowship 
Who: Esther Mulders
Where: University of Amsterdam
When: 2021

In 2021 Esther Mulders (UvA, Department of Art History) was appointed fellow on behalf of Stichting Art, Books and Collections at the department of Book Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
Here, she teaches the seminar Manuscripts and Miniatures and several classes on decoration and illustration of medieval manuscripts. The fellowship, which has been extended to 2022, will result in a publication on illustrations of animals in ‘Sextus Placitus’. This is a medical treatise, Liber medicinae ex animalibus, a tenth-century manuscript, now in Den Haag, Huis van het boek, MMW 10 D 7.