Author: British Museum (Natural History)Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History).
Author: British Museum (Natural History)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Pre-1500 Western Manuscript Books at the Newberry Library
Author: Paul SaengerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226733500
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Newberry Library in Chicago possesses one of the most distinguished collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in North America. Based on two major private collections of the late nineteenth century—those of Henry Probasco and Edward E. Ayer—and scrupulously added to in this century, the holdings include late medieval bibles and breviaries, books of hours and books of homilies, and seminal texts on astronomy. Some of the books, such as those from the libraries of Philip the Good and Anne of Brittany, are beautifully illuminated. But the collection also includes an unusual array of "typical" medieval books, chosen not for their beauty but for their paleographical, codicological, and textual interest. Such codices include an eleventh-century Carthusian monk, and numerous books of hours adapted for feminine use. Paul Saenger has painstakingly identified the text, illumination, physical structure, and provenance for each of the more than 200 books in the collection to provide an exemplary guide to literate culture in the late Middle Ages. This catalogue, carefully researched and handsomely illustrated, will be an invaluable resource for historians, art historians, paleographers, bibliographers, and collectors.
Bat Books
Author: J. P. GumbertPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This work represents an important contribution to the history of medieval books, providing full scholarly description and discussion of an otherwise very little known category of written artefact in quasi-book form, but one that the 60-odd identified examples suggest was relatively common. This volume will be of interest not only to medieval book-historians and codicologists but also to historians of medieval science and of the liturgy, and of medieval written culture and cultural practice more broadly. Although a large proportion of the volume takes the form of a catalogue, the information and explanatory material presented in the introduction to the catalogue as a whole and to each of the sections into which the catalogue is divided give the volume the coherence and value of a historical and codicological survey of this form of artefact, the kind of texts they contained, and how and by whom they were made and used. The way in which the catalogue is structured in chronological and thematic sections, each with their own introduction, also contributes to enhance this aspect of the volume.
Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University: Marston manuscripts
Author: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University
Author: Cornelius G. ButtimerPublisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268201005
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The first full account of North America’s largest collection of traditional Irish-language manuscripts. Harvard University has the largest collection of Irish-language codices in North America, held in Houghton Library, its rare book repository. The manuscripts are a part of the age-old heritage of Irish book production, dating to the early Middle Ages. Handwritten works in Houghton contain versions of medieval poetry and sagas, recopied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to which period most of the library’s documents belong. Contemporary writings from that time, as well as ones by the post-Famine Irish immigrant community in the United States, are included. This catalogue describes the collection in full for the first time and will be an invaluable aid to research on Irish and Irish American cultural and literary output. The author’s introduction examines how the collection was formed. This untold story is an important chapter in America’s intellectual history, reflecting a phase of unprecedented expansion in Harvard University’s scholarship and teaching during the early twentieth century when the institution’s program of studies began to accommodate an increasing range of European languages and literatures and their sources. This indispensable guide to a major repository’s records of the Irish past, and of America’s Irish diaspora, will interest specialists in early and post-medieval codices. It should prove of relevance as well to scholars and students of comparative literature, cultural studies, and Irish and Irish American history.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of ManuscriptsPublisher: London : G. Eyre and A. Strachan
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Catalogue of Chinese Printed Books, Manuscripts and Drawings in the Library of the British Museum
Author: Robert Kennaway DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographies, National
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A Catalogue of Valuable New and Second-hand Books
Author: Willis and SotheranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and ManuscriptsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Autographs and Drawings
Author: Denham, London, firm, booksellersPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description