![]() ![]() Thanks to this magical substance, those creatures come to life and an epic battle ensues. They fight by drawing Beasts with the Living Ink. Inkulinati are a legendary group who battle one another on the pages of medieval manuscripts. You’ll see sword-wielding rabbits, dogs with spears, trumpets lodged in bottoms, human-eating snails, and more. Take your turn in Inkulinati duels filled with unexpected tactical depth (and humour).Įmbark on an ever-changing journey, build your own bestiary, defeat medieval superstars and collect perks to unleash special powers.īecome a master of the Living Ink, grab your quill and build your unique strategy time after time so that you can be named the greatest Inkulinati of all time! INKULINATI IS INSPIRED BY REAL-LIFE MEDIEVAL MARGINALIAħ00 years in the making, finally these bizarre art pieces can come alive in a video game and show that medieval people also had their “memes” and that they laughed from the same silly things that we do today. Rather, their copying habits are highly sophisticated and provide an example of how, in this case, 15th-century scribes played a role in shaping the reception of literary texts by their contemporary audiences.Inkulinati is an ink-based strategy game straight from medieval manuscripts, where a rabbit’s bum can be deadlier than a dog’s sword. Marginaliaĭoodling in medieval books also brings us into the world of play as readers and scribes then, as now, surrendered themselves to the urge to interrupt empty spaces on the page.ĭoodles in the margins – properly known as marginalia – offer the reader some respite from the labours associated with concentrated reading, but also tell us something about how readers reacted to and engaged with the literary world on the page.įor example, although Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur contains relatively few marginalia compared with other medieval manuscripts (80 throughout the 473 surviving folios, by my count), they often mirror the action happening in the narrative in unique ways and demonstrate that the scribes weren’t merely mechanical copiers. Pen trials such as these show that scribes were not just passive processors of the text, but active participants in making the text. This scribe was obviously not enjoying their work. ![]() Thus, let this composition be ended here. In Aelfric’s 11th-century Old English De termporibus anni, a concise handbook of natural science, the scribe finishes with: Sometimes, though, the scribes were a little bit bolder and wrote more emotively about their work. The scribe has written the Latin words “ Probatio Penne”, which means “pen test”. ![]() vi, which is currently held in the British Library in London. ![]() We see this in a manuscript catalogued as Cotton Vespasian D. These types of doodles – an odd name here and there, modest works of art or even a line of music – are important because they give us a rare glimpse into the real day-to-day life of these medieval scribes and what they really thought about the books they were scribing. Now, though, with modern technology, medievalists can uncover all sorts of messages that lie behind the pages of these ancient books. When we see images of scribes (people who made written copies of documents) writing, they are often depicted with a pen and knife in hand.ĭrawings in the Book of Hours. The origins of doodling in the Middle Ages are hard to pinpoint, but they probably started with pen trials. Given the skills and specialisation required for writing in the Middle Ages – the training, level of literacy, access to materials, for example – doodles in manuscripts were rarely thoughtless or accidental. It was commonplace to write in margins, underline and annotate, use blank spaces for recipes and handwriting practice, and even colour in images. Usually found in the flyleaves or margins, doodles can often give medievalists (specialists in medieval history and culture) important insights into how people in earlier centuries understood and reacted to the narrative on the page. Scribbling haphazard words, squiggly lines and mini-drawings, however, is a much older practice and its presence in books tells us a lot about how people engaged with literature in the past.Īlthough you wouldn’t dare doodle on a medieval manuscript today, squiggly lines (sometimes resembling fish or even elongated people), mini-drawings (a knight fighting a snail, for instance), and random objects appear quite often in medieval books. To “doodle” means to draw or scrawl aimlessly, and the history of the word goes back to the early 20th century. ![]()
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