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Author : Caedmon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1941-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231515952
The Junius Manuscript
Author : Thomas H. Ohlgren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1067450989
Author : Christopher De Hamel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : 1851244689
Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What precisely is parchment? How were medieval manuscripts designed and executed? What were the inks and pigments, and how were they applied? This book looks at the work of scribes, illuminators and book binders. 0Based principally on examples in the Bodleian Library, this lavishly illustrated account tells the story of manuscript production from the early Middle Ages through to the high Renaissance. Each stage of production is described in detail, from the preparation of the parchment, pens, paints and inks to the writing of the scripts and the final decoration and illumination of the manuscript. This book also explains the role of the stationer or bookshop, often to be found near cathedral and market squares, in the commissioning of manuscripts, and it cites examples of specific scribes and illuminators who can be identified through their work as professional lay artisans.0Christopher de Hamel's text is accompanied by a glossary of key technical terms relating to manuscripts and illumination, providing an invaluable introduction for anyone interested in studying medieval manuscripts today.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN : 019817151X
Author : Mark Cruse
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843842804
Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 is one of the most famous and most sumptuous illuminated manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages. Completed in 1344 in Tournai, in what is now Belgium, the manuscript preserves the fullest version of the interpolated Old French Roman d'Alexandre (Romance of Alexander the Great), and some of the most vivid illustrations of any medieval romance, ranking amongst the greatest achievements of the illuminator's art, its borders in particular offering a panorama of medieval society and imagination. A celebration of courtliness, a commemoration of urban chivalry, a mirror for the prince instructing in the arts of rule, and a meditation on crusade, it manifests the extraordinary richness and creativity of late medieval manuscript culture. This study examines the manuscript as a monumental expression of the beliefs and social practices of its day, placing it in its historical and artistic context; it also analyzes its later reception in England, where the addition of a Middle English Alexander poem and of Marco Polo's Voyages reflects changing concepts of language, historiography, and geography. Mark Cruse is Assistant Professor of French, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University.
Author : Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Bodleian Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Design
ISBN : 1851244751
Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did scribes choose to arrange the words and images on the page in each manuscript? How did they preserve, clarify and illustrate writing in English? What visual guides were given to early readers of English in how to understand or use their books?'Designing English' is an overview of eight centuries of graphic design in manuscripts and inscriptions from the Anglo-Saxon to the early Tudor periods. Working beyond the traditions established for Latin, scribes of English needed to be more inventive, so that each book was an opportunity for redesigning. 'Designing English' focuses on the craft, agency and intentions of scribes, painters and engravers in the practical processes of making pages and artefacts. It weighs up the balance of ingenuity and copying, practicality and imagination in their work. It surveys bilingual books, format, ordinatio, decoration and reading aloud, as well as inscriptions on objects, monuments and buildings.With over ninety illustrations, drawn especially from the holdings of the Bodleian Library in Old English and Middle English, 'Designing English' gives a comprehensive overview of English books and other material texts across the Middle Ages.
Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:878860140
Author : Peter Kidd,Bodleian Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN : 1851240594
"The 24 medieval manuscripts in the Buchanan collection were presented to the Bodleian in two instalments, in 1939 and 1941, by Mrs. Emily Octavia Buchanan, in accordance with the wishes of her late husband, Thomas Ryburn Buchanan. The Keeper of Western Manuscripts' letter of thanks referred to 'this munificent benefaction ... the most remarkable and valuable accession to our illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages ... for many years'. The collection, with its preponderance of late medieval devotional books from France, the Netherlands and renaissance Italy, is typical of the small private libraries of later 19th-century English amateur collectors. What makes it remarkable is the inclusion of manuscripts notable for their early and fine bindings, their humanistic texts and their provenance. Mrs. Buchanan's gift also included later manuscripts, for the most part notable for their bindings."--
Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Design
ISBN : UOM:39015028544552
Author : Bodleian Library,Otto Pächt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN : UOM:39015014457025
Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher : Postcards from
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1851244131
The Bodleian Library is home to some of the finest examples of illuminated letters. Now, with An Illuminated Alphabet, readers young and old can enjoy a wide selection of these extraordinary letters in twenty-six pull-out postcards--one for each letter of the alphabet. Each postcard features one illuminated letter from a book or manuscript in the Bodleian Library's collection. From large gold-leaf initials in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts to hand-painted examples from early printed books, An Illuminated Alphabet offers an intriguing new way to enjoy the many treasures in the collection of the Bodleian Library. Whether you're an art lover, bibliophile, or one of the Library's more than one million visitors each year, this most beautiful of alphabet books is sure to become a favorite.
Author : Koert van der Horst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990-09-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521401062
In the tradition established by Otto Pacht and J. J. G. Alexander with their catalogues of illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the present publication presents all the vital information on the miniatures, marginalia and other decorations in the manuscripts of one collection. Thanks to the homogeneous nature of the Utrecht University Library's collection, this volume also serves as a much-needed study of manuscript illumination in the Northern Netherlands. Of the 181 manuscripts dealt with here, 132 are from that area. Approximately half of these are from Utrecht, the most important centre of book production in the region during the Middle Ages. A uniquely valuable feature of this publication is the large number of illustrations, most in actual size. All miniatures with identifiable subjects are illustrated, along with a choice of the minor decorations. The extensive entries are supplemented with eight indexes. Special emphasis is laid on iconography, which is indexed both by subject matter and Iconclass number.
Author : Daniela Mairhofer
Publisher : Bodleian Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Carolingians
ISBN : 1851244190
The Bodleian Library possesses a significant collection of Latin medieval manuscripts from Germany, most of them acquired and donated by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s. They are precious survivals from the period of the Thirty Years War. Their significance arises not just from the number of individual manuscripts but from the fact that they represent substantial portions of the libraries of ecclesiastical houses in Wurzburg, Mainz, and Eberbach. This book presents a detailed description of the fifty-six manuscripts from Wurzburg in the Bodleian, most of them from the cathedral chapter (the Domstift St. Kilian). The majority date from the ninth century, and are extremely important from a textual and palaeographical point of view: they constitute the most important single library of Carolingian manuscripts in the British Isles. Wurzburg was one of the leading Anglo-Saxon foundations on the continent of Europe, planting cultural roots which are manifested in almost every aspect of the manuscripts themselves. The catalogue provides authoritative and superbly detailed descriptions of these manuscripts in all their aspects, especially their texts there are many important early copies of the texts of the Church Fathers and their scripts, some of whose forms are unique to Wurzburg. Detailed attention is also paid to the physical characteristics of the manuscripts, their decoration, binding and provenance. Each of the manuscripts is illustrated. "
Author : D. M. Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Design
ISBN : 1841861014
Illuminated manuscripts are among the world's greatest artistic masterpieces. Many of them survive, allowing us to appreciate their radiance and the skill of the men who created them. This book examines the exquisite decorative techniques which captured some of the most important chronicles of history.
Author : Lucy Freeman Sandler
Publisher : Pindar Press
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781915837240
The author is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History at New York University , Institute of Fine Arts, and a leading authority on English medieval manuscript illumination. This volume bring together twenty-six of Professor Sandler's studies, focusing on illustrated manuscripts produced in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly on the illuminated psalters. The marginal illustrations in these psalters are a topic of particular interest, and there are a number of iconographic studies derived from this material. A separate section deals with the illustrated encyclopedias of the period, particularly the Omne bonum.