Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts
Author: Purcell Manuscripts
Author: Robert ShayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521028110
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Few details are known about the life of Henry Purcell. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the most obvious documentary evidence of Purcell's career - the music manuscripts of his own hand and those copied by his colleagues. Robert Shay and Robert Thompson offer a richly illustrated study of Purcell's sources, examining in detail the physical features of the manuscripts as well as their musical content. Their survey sheds light on the chronology of composition and copying of Purcell's works and reassesses the place of extant autographs in his musical development. Major sources are fully catalogued, providing information about the context in which Purcell's music was collected and performed, and his handwriting is more closely examined than ever before. The book represents a significant reference tool for scholars, applying a forensic approach that greatly enriches our knowledge of the composer and the music of his time.
Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters
Author: Emil J. PolakPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004099159
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Betr. Manuskripte der Universitätsbibliothek Basel, S. 193-215.
The Clement Bible at the Medieval Courts of Naples and Avignon
Author: CathleenA. FleckPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351545531
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
As a 'biography' of the fourteenth-century illustrated Bible of Clement VII, an opposition pope in Avignon from 1378-94, this social history traces the Bible's production in Naples (c. 1330) through its changing ownership and meaning in Avignon (c. 1340-1405) to its presentation as a gift to Alfonso, King of Aragon (c. 1424). The author's novel approach, based on solid art historical and anthropological methodologies, allows her to assess the object's evolving significance and the use of such a Bible to enhance the power and prestige of its princely and papal owners. Through archival sources, the author pinpoints the physical location and privileged treatment of the Clement Bible over a century. The author considers how the Bible's contexts in the collection of a bishop, several popes, and a king demonstrate the value of the Bible as an exchange commodity. The Bible was undoubtedly valued for the aesthetic quality of its 200+ luxurious images. Additionally, the author argues that its iconography, especially Jerusalem and visionary scenes, augments its worth as a reflection of contemporary political and religious issues. Its images offered biblical precedents, its style represented associations with certain artists and regions in Italy, and its past provided links to important collections. Fleck's examination of the art production around the Bible in Naples and Avignon further illuminates the manuscript's role as a reflection of the court cultures in those cities. Adding to recent art historical scholarship focusing on the taste and signature styles in late medieval and Renaissance courts, this study provides new information about workshop practices and techniques. In these two court cities, the author analyzes styles associated with different artists, different patrons, and even with different rooms of the rulers' palaces, offering new findings relevant to current scholarship, not only in art history but also in court and collection studies.
Reimagining Jerusalem’s Architectural Identities in the Later Middle Ages
Author: Cathleen A. FleckPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004525890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This book explores several fascinating medieval Christian and Islamic artworks that represent and reimagine Jerusalem’s architecture as religious and political instruments to express power, entice visitors, console the devoted, offer spiritual guidance, and convey the city’s mythical history.
The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts: Descriptions
Author: British Library. Department of ManuscriptsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
Author: Richard GamesonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052178218X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
26 expert contributions to this volumes discuss the manuscript book from a variety of angles: as physical object (manufacture, format, writing, and decoration), its purpose and readership, and as a vehicle for particular types of text (history, sermons, medical treatises, law and administration, music).
Manuscript Listings for the Authors of Classical and Late Antiquity
Author: Robert Edward SinkewiczPublisher: Greek Index Project
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Accompanied by 6 microfiches inserted into pocket.
The Secret of Secrets
Author: Steven J. WilliamsPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A compelling study of a "best-seller" from the Middle Ages
Walford's Concise Guide to Reference Material
Author: Albert John WalfordPublisher: Library Association Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This is a shortened version of the three volume Walford's Guide to Reference Material, 5th edition: Volume 1, Science and Technology (1989), Volume 2, Social and historical sciences, philosophy and religion (1990), and Volume 3, Generalia, language and literature, the arts (1991). There are more than 3,000 entries, forming an updated compilation of what are considered to be the basic items in the main volumes, plus some more recent material up to April 1992.