#the images are slightly butchered as they're photos I took of my own copy

[english-history-trip]

Some of the beautiful illustrations by S.D. Schindler from Brother Hugo and the Bear by Katy Beebe.

The book is based on two real medieval figures: Hugo, a scribe who added a self-portrait (pictured above) to the end of his copy of Jerome's Commentaries on Isaiah, and a bear who appears in a letter from the abbot of Cluny Abbey to a neighboring abbot asking to borrow a copy of The Letters of St. Augustine, "for a large part of ours has been accidentally eaten by a bear."

#the images are slightly butchered as they're photos I took of my own copy #manuscript #art #the debate now is whether I actually give it to my niece #I thought my oxord professor would enjoy this so I messaged him about it #'ah yes the author is my good friend and we did our doctorates together' CMON MAN #I bet he knows the bear