Download or read book Manuscript leaf from a Breviary verses from Psalms 50 55 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaf from a Breviary. 33 lines of Latin text, double columns; includes verses from Psalms 50-55, with a four line illuminated initial extending along much of the margin in red and blue terminating with an owl, four two-line illuminated initials alternating in dark blue with delicate red penwork and red with delicate blue penwork all extending into the margins; may one-line illuminated initials in red.
Download or read book Manuscript leaf from a Breviary written by and published by . This book was released on 1450 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaf from a Breviary. 21 lines of ruled Latin text in Gothic rotunda. Sixteen one-line initials decorated alrternately in burnished gold and blue. The first blue initial R begins Psalm 71. Recto has eight initials and eight are on verso, which is faded somewhat. This exemplifies a beautiful layout of text and decoration.
Download or read book Manuscript leaf from a Breviary verses from 1 Corinthians 13 and Genesis 12 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaf from a Breviary. 33 lines of Latin text, double columns; 10 multi-ilne initials alternating darke blue with delicate red penwork and red with delicate blue penwork, extending into the margins. Includes verses from 1 Corinthians 13 and Genesis 12, with a red and blue peacock in the left margin, recto.
Download or read book Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum Xylographica and books printed with types at Mainz Strassburg Bamberg and Cologne written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University MSS 251 500 written by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spitz Master written by Gregory Clark and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clark examines the book of hours in the context of medieval culture, the book trade in Paris, and the role of Paris as an international center of illumination. 64 illustrations, 40 in color.
Download or read book Masterpieces of the J Paul Getty Museum Illuminated Manuscripts written by Thomas Kren and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Getty Museum’s collection of illuminated manuscripts, featured in this book, comprises masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance art. Dating from the tenth to the sixteenth century, they were produced in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, England, Spain, Poland, and the eastern Mediterranean. Among the highlights are four Ottonian manuscripts, Romanesque treasures from Germany, Italy, and France, an English Gothic Apocalypse, and late medieval manuscripts painted by such masters as Jean Fouquet, Girolamo da Cremona, Simon Marmion, and Joris Hoefnagel. Included are glistening liturgical books, intimate and touching devotional books for private use, books of the Bible, lively histories by Giovanni Boccaccio and Jean Froissart, and a breathtaking Model Book of Calligraphy.
Download or read book Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by London : Trustees of the British Museum. This book was released on 1963 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kyng Alisaunder written by G. V. Smithers and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Psalter written by Matthew Britt and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Xylographica and books printed with types at Mainz Strassburg Bamberg and Cologne written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library written by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Isabella Breviary written by Janet Backhouse and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Breviary of Queen Isabella of Castile is one of the most splendid of Flemish illuminated manuscripts, notable for the verve and originality of its miniatures. This is the first time it has been the subject of a substantial separate publication, providing comprehensive coverage of its contents and decoration. The manuscript was presented to Isabella by Francisco de Rojas, apparently to mark the occasion of the double marriage of her son and daughter to the children of Maximilian, King of the Romans, and his first wife, Mary of Burgundy. De Rojas had acted for Isabella and her husband, King Ferdinand of Aragon, throughout the marriage negotiations, which were concluded in 1495. Isabella had a strong interest in Flemish art and this sumptuous devotional book must have been much to her taste. Breviaries, normally produced for the use of the clergy, are much less common than books of hours. They contain a larger and more varied body of texts, affording their artists a wider range of subject matter and extensive decorative opportunities. In the case of the Isabella Breviary, no effort was spared to produce an illustrative scheme on a grand scale. Two outstanding workshops of the day are represented. The greater part of the manuscript is due to the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook, whose contribution includes a number of unusual Old Testament subjects. Many of the illustrations of saints are by the Master of James IV of Scotland. In addition there are four magnificent miniatures closely related to (and possibly in the hand of) Gerard David.
Download or read book Piety in Pieces written by Kathryn M. Rudy and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts. These activities accelerated in the fifteenth century. Most manuscripts made before 1390 were bespoke and made for a particular client, but those made after 1390 (especially books of hours) were increasingly made for an open market, in which the producer was not in direct contact with the buyer. Increased efficiency led to more generic products, which owners were motivated to personalise. It also led to more blank parchment in the book, for example, the backs of inserted miniatures and the blanks ends of textual components. Book buyers of the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century still held onto the old connotations of manuscripts—that they were custom-made luxury items—even when the production had become impersonal. Owners consequently purchased books made for an open market and then personalised them, filling in the blank spaces, and even adding more components later. This would give them an affordable product, but one that still smacked of luxury and met their individual needs. They kept older books in circulation by amending them, attached items to generic books to make them more relevant and valuable, and added new prayers with escalating indulgences as the culture of salvation shifted. Rudy considers ways in which book owners adjusted the contents of their books from the simplest (add a marginal note, sew in a curtain) to the most complex (take the book apart, embellish the components with painted decoration, add more quires of parchment). By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. This study explores the intersection of codicology and human desire. Rudy shows how increased modularisation of book making led to more standardisation but also to more opportunities for personalisation. She asks: What properties did parchment manuscripts have that printed books lacked? What are the interrelationships among technology, efficiency, skill loss and standardisation?
Download or read book The Last Flowering written by John Plummer and published by New York : Pierpont Morgan Library : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery Belgium 1250 1530 2 v written by Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second of four volumes that will catalog these holdings at the Walters, the curator of the collection describes in detail 113 manuscripts produced in France from the 1420s to 1540.
Download or read book Treasures from UCL written by Gillian Furlong and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UCL has one of the foremost university Special Collections in the UK. It is a treasure trove of national and international importance, comprising over a million items dating from the 4th-century AD to the present day. Treasures from UCL draws together detailed descriptions and images of 70 of the most prized items. Between the magnificent illuminated Latin Bible of the 13th-century and the personal items of one of the 20th-century’s greatest writers, George Orwell, the many highlights of this remarkable collection will delight and intrigue anyone who picks up this book.
