Author: Henry Yates ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Catalogue of ... Illuminated Manuscripts and ... Books, the Property of Henry Yates Thompson ... Which Will be Sold at Auction by Messrs. Stotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Author: Henry Yates ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Second Series of Fifty Manuscripts (nos. 51 to 100) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson
Author: Henry Yates ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A Descriptive Catalogue of Fourteen Illuminated Manuscripts
Author: Henry Yates ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke College, Cambridge and the Fitzwilliam Museum
Author: Kari Anne RandPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843840537
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
`The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES Two very different collections are surveyed in this volume. The manuscripts of Pembroke College, Cambridge are typical of a medieval foundation. Its core of books is a working library of that period, representing the interests andneeds of its Fellows, very often given or bequeathed by them to the College. The collection was substantially enlarged in 1599 through the gift by William Smart of Ipswich of a large number of manuscripts which until the Reformation had belonged to the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds. By contrast the emphasis of the Fitzwilliam Museum collection is to a great extent art historical. At its heart are the manuscripts bequeathed by Lord Fitzwilliam in 1816. These were supplemented throughout the 19th century by a series of gifts and bequests, culminating in 1904 in the largest bequest to date, from Frank McClean, of some 203 manuscripts. In spite of the different character of the two collections, both contain a range of Middle English prose items, among them Chaucer's Boece, a complete Wycliffite sermon cycle and several Paston letters [all from Pembroke], the Anlaby Cartulary, the "Canutus" pestilence tract, the Brut, Lydgate's Serpent of Division and Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ (from the Fitzwilliam). KARI ANNE RAND is Professor of Older English Literature at the University of Oslo.
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Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 2634
Book Description
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Author: John Rylands University Library of ManchesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & HodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Author: Christopher de HamelPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698163389
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts. Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize. A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Gift Guide Pick! Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and about the modern world, too. In so doing, de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, and collectors. He traces the elaborate journeys that these exceptionally precious artifacts have made through time and shows us how they have been copied, how they have been embroiled in politics, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and as symbols of national identity, and who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell). From the earliest book in medieval England to the incomparable Book of Kells to the oldest manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, these encounters tell a narrative of intellectual culture and art over the course of a millennium. Two of the manuscripts visited are now in libraries of North America, the Morgan Library in New York and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts allows us to experience some of the greatest works of art in our culture to give us a different perspective on history and on how we come by knowledge.