A Descriptive Catalogue Of The Medieval Manuscripts Of Merton College Oxford

Author : Rodney M. Thomson,Nigel Guy Wilson
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124156337

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Merton College, Oxford by Rodney M. Thomson,Nigel Guy Wilson Pdf

Descriptive catalogue provides a crucial guide to one of the most important repositories of medieval manuscrips. Merton College, Oxford, one of the oldest colleges in the University, was founded in 1264. Its library contains some 328 complete medieval manuscript books (plus several hundred fragments in, or extracted from, the bindings of early printed books), dating from the ninth to the late fifteenth century. Most of them came to the College before the Reformation, and are the remains of its medieval collection, part of which was chained in the library, part in circulation amongst the Fellowship. Together with the College's surviving medieval archive, which includes no fewer than twenty-three book-lists, this material provides an important window on intellectual life at the University of Oxford between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, and on the manufacture, acquisition and use of the books that supported it. This first catalogue of the medieval manuscripts since 1852 offers full and detailed descriptions of each item, supported by a colour frontispiece, 50 colour plates, and 107 black and white plates. Its introduction provides the first detailed history of Merton's medieval library, including an account of the building anddesign of the College's 'Old Library', built in the 1370s, western Europe's oldest library room still in use today; and the volume is completed with four appendices (including a comprehensive set of extracts from the College's medieval account rolls referring to its books and library) and two indexes. RODNEY M. THOMSON is Professor of History and Honorary Research Associate in the School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania.

Author : Andrew G. Watson,All Souls College (University of Oxford). Library
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040136692

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of All Souls College, Oxford by Andrew G. Watson,All Souls College (University of Oxford). Library Pdf

This catalogue, the first in 150 years, describes 112 manuscript books and over 200 fragments, including about 95 books that have been at All Souls since the fifteenth century. They and later acquisitions contain material that will interest historians, literary, linguistic, liturgical students, and historians of science, medicine and law.

Author : Andrew G. Watson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028489339

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Exeter College, Oxford by Andrew G. Watson Pdf

Founded in 1314, Exeter College, Oxford, still holds over 70 copies of its medieval manuscripts, as well as some that were acquired later. Based on close examination of the manuscripts, this detailed and handsomely illustrated catalogue replaces one that was published in 1852.

Author : Keble College. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015002134081

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The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College, Oxford by Keble College. Library Pdf

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Author : Ralph Hanna,Jeremy Griffiths
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Manuscripts, Medieval
ISBN : UOM:39015055576105

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford by Ralph Hanna,Jeremy Griffiths Pdf

St John's College owns one of the largest collegiate collections of medieval manuscripts in Oxford, ranging from the early eleventh century to the early sixteenth century. This a detailed and excellent catalogue of a valuable collection, compiled on up-to-date principles. It replaces the monumental work of Henry O. Coxe (1852), and uses materials assembled by the late Jeremy J. Griffiths.

Author : St. John's College (University of Oxford). Library,Emilie Savage-Smith,G. J. H. van Gelder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199201951

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A Descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford by St. John's College (University of Oxford). Library,Emilie Savage-Smith,G. J. H. van Gelder Pdf

The collection of 41 treatises in 26 Oriental manuscripts now at St John's College, Oxford, reflect the varying ways in which Europeans have sought to make themselves familiar with the cultures of the East. Acquired between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, most are Arabic or Persian, but there are also Syriac, Hebrew, Turkish, Ethiopic, and Gujarati items. No mere catalogue, it includes an essay by Geert Jan van Gelder, the present Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford on the Arabic poetry that owners over the years jotted down on the margins, and is lavishly illustrated with 37 examples of calligraphy, diagrams, and illuminations.The catalogue provides a detailed description of every item within each manuscript. Most of the manuscript volumes were acquired through the donation of Archbishop William Laud (d. 1645), founder of the Chair of Arabic which bears his name. Several of his volumes were acquired from the traveller and adventurer Sir Kenelm Digby (d.1665), who bought them in Amsterdam, possibly on Laud's behalf. They are an interestingly varied collection, including Qur'ans and Arabic and Persian treatises on astronomical, mathematical, and military subjects. A bi-lingual Hebrew-Latin manuscript, as well as Arabic astronomical tables, came through the donation of Edward Bernard, Savilian Professor of Astronomy from 1673 to 1691. Six more manuscripts were given to the College in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including an Ottoman Turkish letter, a Gujarati merchant's map, and two Hebrew thirteenth-century deeds of conveyance collected by the antiquary John Pointer (d. 1754), one-time chaplain of Merton College, Oxford.

Author : Rodney M. Thomson
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Reference
ISBN : 184384284X

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford by Rodney M. Thomson Pdf

"Published for Corpus Christi College, Oxford."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN : 0901420638

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The Medieval Manuscripts of Trinity College, Oxford by Anonim Pdf

Author : Keble College Oxford. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:432392291

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The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College Oxford by Keble College Oxford. Library Pdf

Author : Peter Kidd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN : 0901420603

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of the Queen's College, Oxford by Peter Kidd Pdf

Author : Antonella Brita,Janina Karolewski,Matthieu Husson,Laure Miolo,Hanna Wimmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783111343556

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Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences by Antonella Brita,Janina Karolewski,Matthieu Husson,Laure Miolo,Hanna Wimmer Pdf

Throughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most cultures today. By focusing on the role manuscripts have in different kinds of performances, this volume contributes to the evolving field of investigating written artefacts and their functions. The collected essays regard manuscripts as points of intersection where textual, material, and performative aspects converge. The contributors analyse manuscripts in their forms and functions as well as their positioning in the performances for which they were made. These aspects unfold across the volume's three sections, examining how manuscripts are (1) used backstage, for preparing and giving instructions for performances; (2) taken onstage, contributing to the enactment of performances; and (3) performers in their own right, producing an effect on the audience. The diversified, interdisciplinary, and innovative methodologies of the included papers carry great potential to expand the traditional approaches of manuscript studies and find application outside the contributors' respective fields.

Author : Helmut Gneuss,Michael Lapidge
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442648234

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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts by Helmut Gneuss,Michael Lapidge Pdf

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts is the first publication to list every surviving manuscript or manuscript fragment written in Anglo-Saxon England between the seventh and the eleventh centuries or imported into the country during that time. Each of the 1,291 entries in Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge's Bibliographical Handlist not only details the origins, contents, current location, script, and decoration of the manuscript, but also provides bibliographic entries that list facsimiles, editions, linguistic analyses, and general studies relevant to that manuscript. A general bibliography, designed to provide full details of author-date references cited in the individual entries, includes more than 4,000 items. Compiled by two of the field's greatest living scholars, the Gneuss-Lapidge Bibliographical Handlist stands to become the most important single-volume research tool to appear in the field since Greenfield and Robinson's Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature. Their achievement in the present book will endure for many decades and serve as a catalyst for new research across several disciplines.

Author : Andrew Fear,Jamie Wood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004415454

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A Companion to Isidore of Seville by Andrew Fear,Jamie Wood Pdf

A standard work in nineteen chapters from leading international scholars on bishop Isidore of Seville (d. 636), addressing the contexts in which the seventh-century bishop lived and worked, exploring his key works and activities, and finally considering his later reception.

Author : Monika E. Müller
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781443861038

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The Use of Models in Medieval Book Painting by Monika E. Müller Pdf

Until recently, the phenomenon of copying in medieval book painting has been considered mainly in terms of the reconstruction of pictorial sources used for the composition or iconography of miniatures, initials, or decorative elements. Although historic sources only rarely mention the circumstances of manuscripts’ production, one particular widely-accepted hypothesis has prevailed until now, according to which artists used model drawings or sketch books with the aim of facilitating the production of copies and the creation of new picture cycles. However, it is no longer sufficient to regard medieval book painting in its diachronic dimension only through these lenses. Rather, one should consider Robert W. Scheller’s critique that “When using the model hypothesis one must always be mindful of other factors which are known to have played a part in the transmission of art in the Middle Ages”. The contributions of this volume deal with these issues by focusing on book painting between the 10th and 16th centuries.

Author : David King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780197262641

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The Medieval Stained Glass of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich by David King Pdf

"The medieval stained glass of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, is the most important collection in a country rich in this medium. The glass is of exceptional quality and was painted in the city. It reflects the personal, religious and political interests in Norwich's urban elite, who were worshipping in the leading parish church of one of England's largest cities." "This illustrated volume reconstructs the glazing of much of the eastern arm of the church using extensive documentary and antiquarian evidence. The windows provide opportunities for the discussion of narrative, display and audience, and the glass is set in a local and national stylistic context. There is biographical information relating to all known Norwich glaziers from 1400 to the Reformation; this will constitute a invaluable resource for stained glass studies in the future. The reader will also find details of the documentary evidence for the furnishing and liturgy of St Peter Mancroft; transcripts of all the documents relating to the church's medieval glazing; and descriptions of panels from Mancroft now in other collections."--BOOK JACKET.