Author: John Obadiah WestwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria
Author: John Obadiah WestwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria
Author: John Obadiah WestwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Maggs Bros. Catalogues
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
‘a hole worlde of things very memorable’
Author: Martin HenigPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 180327705X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Julian Munby has gained a reputation over half a century in many branches of archaeological and historical knowledge. His lively and warm character and sense of fun has made him many friends who also in some sense feel they are his pupils, and this collection of papers has been assembled as a tribute in honour of his 70th birthday.
Books on Printing, Bibliography, Illuminated Manuscripts & Bookbinding
Author: Maggs BrosSyllabus Series
Author: University of California (System)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Author: Christopher de HamelPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143110802
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.
Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages
Author: Lawrence NeesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009239554
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
This richly illustrated study addresses the essential first steps in the development of the new phenomenon of the illuminated book, which innovatively introduced colourful large letters and ornamental frames as guides for the reader's access to the text. Tracing their surprising origins within late Roman reading practices, Lawrence Nees shows how these decorative features stand as ancestors to features of printed and electronic books we take for granted today, including font choice, word spacing, punctuation and sentence capitalisation. Two hundred photographs, nearly all in colour, illustrate and document the decisive change in design from ancient to medieval books. Featuring an extended discussion of the importance of race and ethnicity in twentieth-century historiography, this book argues that the first steps in the development of this new style of book were taken on the European continent within classical practices of reading and writing, and not as, usually presented, among the non-Roman 'barbarians'.
Catalogue of Books Contained in the Library of the American Bible Society, Embracing Editions of the Holy Scriptures in Various Languages, and Other Biblical and Miscellaneous Works
Author: American Bible SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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