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The Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University was founded in 1917 by Professor Charles Rufus Morey.

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Index on the go! This weekend Art History Specialist Jessica Savage and Index student worker Brooke Jurgenson consulted the Index while visiting the exhibition "Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life," now on view through January 4th at the Morgan Library and Museum.
A person’s hand holding a mobile phone with an open database record of the Index of Medieval Art displaying the color images of a manuscript, which match an open book on display in a museum glass case. The open book is decorated with figures and scenes, including a ship being built and sailing on waves. Museum label text partly visible in foreground.
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Free registration is now open for "Art and Proof in the Ninth Century" on Dec. 6. Please join us if you can! More info at ima.princeton.edu/conferences/
A manuscript page with a square field of letters, including several geometric shapes.
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Index friends: We have completed cataloging of the print textile records in the database! Read more at ima.princeton.edu/2025/10/07/a...
A photograph of a pair of gloves decorated with roundels and trim, placed flat on a red mount and behind display glass, a work of art above on the wall. In the foreground right, a mobile phone screen shows the same item in the Index of Medieval Art database.
October 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Have a good #IndexHumpDay (Eliezer taking oath, Bible, Amiens, Bib. Mun. MS 108, fol. 13v).
A manuscript page with two large stacked scenes with lines of Latin text above and below them. The upper scene depicts a seated man raising his hand while another man kneels in front of him; the lower one shows a boy riding a camel, accompanies by three more camels.
September 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Interested in learning more about how to use the Index of Medieval Art in your research? Join our free online tutorial on Oct. 7, 2025! Click through to sign up: ima.princeton.edu/.../next-onl....

(Musician, Cantigas de Santa María, RBME, MS B.I.2, fol. 313v).
A man wearing a white cap and playing a red bagpipe with gold pipes, against a patterned red ground.
September 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Have a good #IndexHumpDay
(Mosaic pavement, Church of the Martyrs, Mādabā, Jordan, 550–620).
A mosaic of a man in a patterned robe and pointed hat leading a camel by a rein, all within a landscape with trees.
July 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Have a good #IndexHumpDay
(9th century carving on the back of a sixth-century consular diptych, Musée du Louvre, Paris)
An ivory plaque careved with human, animal, and mythological figures, including centaurs, sirens, satyrs, an elephant, and a camel.
July 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Have a good #IndexHumpDay! (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 88, fol. 16r.
A detail of a manuscript page with a red rectangle containing a line drawing of a camel walking to the right on a green background. Writing can be seen around the border of the image, and some of the illustration on the next page is visible through a small hole near the camel's forward leg.
July 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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A classic for this #IndexHumpDay
(Detail from the Bayeux Embroidery, Normandy, 1066–1083)
An embroidered textile with images of men riding horses, some of them pointing to an inscription, and upper and lower borders containing a variet of animals, including birds and camels.
June 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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It is #IndexHumpDay all right
A manuscript page with a framed image of a man with a bow, looking backward as he rides on a camel galloping to the right. There is Latin text above and below the frame.
May 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Keep on going, it's #IndexHumpDay!
(Camel, manuscript detail, Ashmole Bestiary, Oxford, Bodleian Lib., MS Ashmole1511, fol. 31v.)
A detail of a manuscript page depicting a nude man riding a camel, against a gold ground. Latin text is found at the left and upper margin of the image.
April 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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This #IndexHumpDay, we thank Erik Gustafson for sharing this amazing medieval camel!
Set in an outdoor space, a trapezoidal architectural block carved with a figure of a camel followed by a male figure holding its tail in one hand and a whip in the other.
April 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Stepping forward with determination on this #IndexHumpDay
(Northumberland Bestiary, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS. 100, folio 30r).
A line drawing of a camel, shown in profile against a green frame. There are lines of Latin text above and below it.
April 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Lots of luck on this #IndexHumpDay
(London, British Library, Harley 4751, folio 24r)
A detail of a manuscript page depicting a camel facing to the right, against a field of nested gold, blue, and red rectangles.
April 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Someone is quite surprised to learn that it's #IndexHumpDay already!

L’Image du Monde / Bestiaire of Pierre de Beauvais (Bibliothèque Universitaire Historique de Médecine, MS H. 437), folio 105r, 14th century.
Detail of a manuscript page with two simply framed images of a camel and a dromedary leaping against a red ground. The camel has its mouth open.
April 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Big news at the Index! ima.princeton.edu/2025/04/01/i...
A manuscript detail with a leafy red letter B on a blue field. inside the letter is a robed, haloed figure with three faces; he holds a book and raises his right hand.
April 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Hugs to all our medievalist friends on International Hug a Medievalist Day! (King Cepheus, British Library MS Arundel 66 f.34)
A detail of a medieval manuscript depicting a man in a red tunic opening his arms wide, before a patterned background and a starry sky. He is flanked by two scrolls with Gothic writing.
March 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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It's #IndexHumpDay again! Stay safe from griffins if you can

(Rutland Psalter, London, British Library, Additional MS 62925, folio 14v, c1260)
March 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Have a good #IndexHumpDay!

(Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders, 12th–early 13th c, probably Iran or Iraq; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1964, no. 64.59).
A turquoise-colored ceramic figurine of a camel carrying a house-shaped structure on its back.
March 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Bactrian camel, MS. 61, folio 27r, 13th century.
Saint John’s College Library, Saint John’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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A painting of a camel against a rose-colored ground with stars.
March 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Another #IndexHumpDay. Let's do our best to make it a good one.

(Bowl with camel caravan, late 12th-early 13th century [Seljuq?], 48.1054. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
A round ceramic plate with a saddled camel in the center, surrounded by a band of camels and palm trees framed by bands of abstract ornament.
March 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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It's #IndexHumpDay!

(Joseph, Sold to Ishmaelites, Prayer Book of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, Ms. Ludwig IX 19, fol. 94, 1525 – 1530, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California)
A manuscript page with a large block of red and black text, including red and blue initials and an ornate gold letter H on a green groud. Surrounding the text is a landscape with trees and hills in which a group of male figures beside a well present a captive to a turbaned man while another waits with pack camels.
February 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Stay the course like this camel on #IndexHumpDay
A manuscript detail showing a smiling camel facing to the right, in front of an ornamental red and gold band.
February 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Index friends, please enjoy our latest Guestbook interview with Prof. Herbert Kessler here: ima.princeton.edu/.../index-gu...
A detail of a lined notebook containing multiple signatures in various hands, with one signature line highlighted.
February 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Index users, please join us for an online tutorial on using the Index of Medieval Art database, March 25 at 12 noon Eastern/New York time. A free registration link is found here: ima.princeton.edu/.../next-onl...
A painted panel with three arches on top depicting a veiled woman, with her outstretched arms grasping her opened mantle, also held by a pair of angels holding flowers. Beneath the mantle, two groups of kneeling male and female figures, some wearing religious clothing and some crowned.
February 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM