Author: William M. VoelklePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Spanish Forger
Author: William M. VoelklePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination
Author: John WilliamsPublisher: New York : G. Braziller
ISBN: 9780807608678
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Spanish culture is the result of many civilizations - Visigoth, Jewish, Berber, Arabic - which mingled with the traditions of the Romanized Celtic-Iberian population, once colonized by Carthage. Of special interest among Spain's artistic treasure are the manuscripts produced from the seventh through the eleventh centuries, especially those masterpieces which were decorated in the Mozarabic style (the term given to the Christians who lived in the Iberian Peninsula under Moslem rule). These manuscripts present a strange vision of the world with strong, deep colors that cover the picture with vibrant bands of green, red, yellows and violet, providing the background for monsters, tempests, human figures of every description, - all displaying an incredible virile mysticism, evoking a new ideal, the antithesis of the Classic which was to influence the art of the latter Middle Ages throughout all Europe, but which was anticipated in Spain by nearly two centuries. - Publisher.
Spanish and Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts
Author: Harvard College Library. Department of Printing and Graphic ArtsPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Houghton Library : Harvard College Library
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Nearly all the Spanish and Portuguese books in the Department were collected and given to the Library by the late Philip Hofer, founding Curator of the Department. They reflect his personal taste and his awareness of the historical importance of such a collection - foreword.
Studies on Medieval Liturgical and Legal Manuscripts from Spain and Southern Italy
Author: Roger E. ReynoldsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000949338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Though it may not be immediately obvious why articles on topics from such distantly removed areas of western Europe - the Iberian peninsula and southern Italy - should appear in the same volume (the fourth collection by Roger Reynolds), the materials covered illustrate that they are indeed closely related, both in their differences and their similarities. Both peninsulas had their own indigenous liturgies and music (Old Spanish and Beneventan), distinctive written scripts (Visigothic and Beneventan), and legal and theological traditions, and repeatedly these worked their influence on other areas of western Europe. Although there were frequent attempts by the papacy and secular rulers from the 9th to the 13th century to suppress these distinctive traditions in both areas, elements of these nonetheless survived well into the 16th century and beyond. Despite the differences in these traditions, the articles in this volume also demonstrate through manuscript evidence the continued exchange of the distinctive customs between the Iberian peninsula and southern Italian cultures from the very early Middle Ages through the 12th century.
Paleographic Guide for Spanish Manuscripts, Fifteenth-seventeenth Centuries: Roman Numerals
Author: Salo Kalisher LowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Numerals
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Catalogue of French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Yugoslav and Slavonic Manuscripts
Author: Sir Thomas PhillippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Narrative and Critical History of America: Spanish explorations and settlements in America from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. [c1886
Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Catalogue of the Bound Historical Manuscripts Collected by Jared Sparks; and Now Deposited in the Library of Harvard University
Author: Records of the Spanish Inquisition
Author: Andrew Dickson WhitePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732653609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Records of the Spanish Inquisition by Andrew Dickson White
Narrative and Critical History of America: Spanish Explorations and Settlements in America from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century
Author: Various AuthorsPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465608079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1486
Book Description
BEYOND his birth, of poor and respectable parents, we know nothing positively about the earliest years of Columbus. His father was probably a wool-comber. The boy had the ordinary schooling of his time, and a touch of university life during a few months passed at Pavia; then at fourteen he chose to become a sailor. A seaman’s career in those days implied adventures more or less of a piratical kind. There are intimations, however, that in the intervals of this exciting life he followed the more humanizing occupation of selling books in Genoa, and perhaps got some employment in the making of charts, for he had a deft hand at design. We know his brother Bartholomew was earning his living in this way when Columbus joined him in Lisbon in 1470. Previous to this there seems to be some degree of certainty in connecting him with voyages made by a celebrated admiral of his time bearing the same family name, Colombo; he is also said to have joined the naval expedition of John of Anjou against Naples in 1459. Again, he may have been the companion of another notorious corsair, a nephew of the one already mentioned, as is sometimes maintained; but this sea-rover’s proper name seems to have been more likely Caseneuve, though he was sometimes called Coulon or Colon. Columbus spent the years 1470-1484 in Portugal. It was a time when the air was filled with tales of discovery. The captains of Prince Henry of Portugal had been gradually pushing their ships down the African coast and in some of these voyages Columbus was a participant. To one of his navigators Prince Henry had given the governorship of the Island of Porto Santo, of the Madeira group. To the daughter of this man, Perestrello, Columbus was married; and with his widow Columbus lived, and derived what advantage he could from the papers and charts of the old navigator. There was a tie between his own and his wife’s family in the fact that Perestrello was an Italian, and seems to have been of good family, but to have left little or no inheritance for his daughter beyond some property in Porto Santo, which Columbus went to enjoy. On this island Columbus’ son Diego was born in 1474.