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Illuminated Manuscripts

Books on: (illuminated OR illumination) AND (manuscripts OR books)

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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Book by Michelle P. Brown; British Library, 1991

Subjects:

Books--England--History--400-1400, Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon, Manuscripts, English (Old), Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval And Modern)--Egland

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...a linear style of Late Antique illumination which was to influence the Insular...produced a number of important illuminated manuscripts during the 8th and...C. de Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts 1986 D...
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Illuminated & Calligraphic Manuscripts: An Exhibition Held at the Fogg Art Museum & Houghton Library February 14-April 1, 1955

Book by Harvard University; Harvard College Library, 1955

Subjects:

Calligraphy--Exhibitions, Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...carelessly handled in the previous period, joined the richly illuminated Livres dHeures of the fifteenth and sixteenth century...British Museum, and the Print Room of the Berlin Museum, book illumination was not yet recognized as important to a great art museum...
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Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27-March 13

Book by Walters Art Gallery; Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949

Subjects:

Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...to enjoy these illuminated manuscripts through...examples of medieval illumination are very few...represent medieval illumination in American art...of nearly 800 illuminated manuscripts as...abundance of the illumination, but the sustained...the least of the illuminated initials, all...
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The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library

Book by Janet Backhouse; British Library, 1997

Subjects:

British Library--Catalogs, Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts, Medieval, Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts, Renaissance, Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts--England--London--Catalogs

Collections: Entire Library

The British Library houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of Western illuminated manuscripts in the world. This book offers an anthology in colour chosen from more than two hundred of them. So very comprehensive are the British Library collections that the majority of the most ...
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The British Library houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of Western illuminated manuscripts in the world. This book offers an anthology in colour chosen from more than two hundred of them. So very comprehensive are the British Library collections that the majority of the most significant schools of illumination in medieval Europe can be represented. Furthermore, most of the manuscripts contain dozens, if not hundreds, of images, only visible to those who have the privilege of turning their delicate pages.
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Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts

Book by Patricia Basing; British Library, 1990

Subjects:

Handicraft In Art, Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts, Medieval, Occupations In Art

Collections: Entire Library

A beautiful and informative book, this is a remarkable social history of men and women at work during the Middle Ages.

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Journal Articles on: (illuminated OR illumination) AND (manuscripts OR books)

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Alcuin Blamires and Gail C. Holian, the 'Romance of the Rose' Illuminated: Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales

Journal article by Sylvia Huot; Medium Aevum, Vol. 72, 2003

Subjects:

The 'Romance of the Rose' Illuminated: Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Holian, The Romance of the Rose Illuminated: Manuscripts at the National...Library of Wales houses seven manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose, five...detailed descriptions of all seven manuscripts along with colour reproductions...
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Scribal Whim and Miniature Allocation in the Illustrated Manuscripts of the 'Continuation-Gauvain.'

Journal article by Janet R. Doner; Medium Aevum, Vol. 65, 1996

Subjects:

Illumination of books and manuscripts--History, Manuscripts, Medieval--Illustrations, photographs, etc., Romances--Illustrations, photographs, etc., Scribes--Practice

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...pp. 229--375); and ten in the Manessier (pp. 375-487). The illuminations are spaced in a relatively even manner throughout the manuscript...introduce the Continuation-Perceval with a two-line rubric and illuminated initial, this may just as easily signal a new series of adventures...
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Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts

Journal article by Susan Drury; Folklore, Vol. 116, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...case of herbals. "Although flower decoration in illuminated manuscripts reached its peak in the fifteenth century, the origins...colour or gold leaf. The depiction of flowers in manuscripts reached its peak in the fifteenth century in Italy...
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A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, I: Works before the Canterbury Tales

Journal article by Helen Phillips; Medium Aevum, Vol. 67, 1998

Subjects:

A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, I: Works before the Canterbury Tales (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...moments of profound critical illumination, as when Minnis takes us from...table of facts about individual manuscripts. It is marred by idiosyncrasies...of Chaucers lyrics and their manuscripts: they get just a page and a bit...
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Peter Kidd, Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library

Journal article; Medium Aevum, Vol. 74, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...donor). The descriptions follow, in meticulous detail. This is particularly happy in Kidds copious description of the illumination, but elsewhere almost achieves the level of nuclear power-plant fail-safe (e.g. three different symbols to mark line...

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Magazine Articles on: (illuminated OR illumination) AND (manuscripts OR books)

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Treasures on Earth: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts

Magazine article by Paul Elie; Commonweal, Vol. 121, September 9, 1994

Subjects:

Armenian Church--Art, Christian art and symbolism--Exhibitions, Illumination of books and manuscripts--Exhibitions

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...are many ways to approach "Treasures in Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts," which appeared through early August at the...ignore some of the expert commentary in order to focus on each illuminations essential structure, or iconography. Again and again in...
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Small Wonders: Richard Cork Is Transported into the Miniature Worlds of Renaissance Manuscripts

Magazine article by Richard Cork; New Statesman, Vol. 132, January 12, 2004

Subjects:

Art exhibitions--Criticism and interpretation, Art--Exhibitions, Art--United Kingdom, Book and manuscript illumination--Exhibitions, Illumination of books and manuscripts--Exhibitions, Royal Academy of Arts (London, England)--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...technique required for manuscript illumination. The RA show is prefaced by...that the Burgundians attached to illuminated books. They were enormously proud of...each other to acquire prayer books and secular texts illustrated...
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Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages

Magazine article by Margaret R. Miles; The Christian Century, Vol. 121, July 13, 2004

Subjects:

Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages. by Margaret R. Miles Aristotles...Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages. By Richard E. Rubenstein. Harcourt, 368 pp...
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Everything Is Illuminated

Magazine article by Gordon Houser; The Christian Century, Vol. 119, November 6, 2002

Subjects:

Everything Is Illuminated (Book)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Everything Is Illuminated by Gordon Houser By Jonathan Safran Foer. Houghton...fantastical elements in the history of Trachimbrod, to finally get to the illumination of a truth too dark to fully understand, too awful to look at...
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Boucicaut Master

Magazine article by Diane Mark-Walker, Lisa Vihos; School Arts, Vol. 99, March 2000

Subjects:

Art, Renaissance--High Renaissance, Boucicaut, Master--Works, Europe--15th century, French literature--Art, Illumination of books and manuscripts--Art

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...examining this and other illuminated manuscript pages, its important...paragraphs of text? The elaborate illumination shows the great importance...answers are possible. The illuminated page is made of parchment...to remember that, as the manuscripts illuminator, he was but...Adam and Eve. (Check in art books for works with this subject...

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Newspaper Articles on: (illuminated OR illumination) AND (manuscripts OR books)

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BOOKS: Illumination on the Road to Nowhere; Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman, Faber & Faber, Pounds 12.99. Reviewed by Andrew Cowen

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 18, 2006

Subjects:

Books

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

BOOKS: Illumination on the Road to Nowhere; Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman...impossible to put down until its been read. Superficially slight, the books humanity remains with you long after you have turned the final page.
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The Lyrical Art of Illumination: Gallery's Manuscripts among World's Best

Newspaper article by Bonnie Vanaman; The Washington Times, October 24, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

The lyrical art of illumination: Gallerys manuscripts...features 32 of their illuminated manuscripts and woodcuts...these rare books and illuminated manuscripts, as they...from a time when music manuscripts had notes more closely...
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PAPERBACKS; Books

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 12, 2005

Subjects:

Books

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...an instant Ebenezer. Blythe lobs blunt insults at the usual yuletide targets: TV repeats, novelty jumpers, satsumas. Illuminated snowmen trouble him, especially on council estates, and "shell-suited slappers with snotty kids" get a raw deal, particularly...
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Secrets of the Saucy Psalter; as One of Our Finest Medieval Manuscripts Reveal What's Really Going on between the Sheets

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 26, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...discovered in 2003 in the Earl of Macclesfields library at Shirburn Castle in Oxfordshire, and will now reside with other illuminated works at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. THERE, Dr Stella Panayatova, keeper of manuscripts and rare books, said...
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Persian Pearls: Calligraphy, Books, Other Works Dazzle the Eye at Sackler Exhibit

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, November 3, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...expression of Islams holy scripture, the Koran. Illumination and elaborate Arabic scripts were developed to enhance...points of this exhibition of nearly 100 paintings, manuscripts, drawings and calligraphies on objects as diverse...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: (illuminated OR illumination) AND (manuscripts OR books)

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Illumination , in Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...mid-12th-century work is the Winchester Bible. Before the 14th cent. illuminated manuscripts in the West were nearly always made of vellum...tempera , and the gilt was burnished to a high luster. Lavish illumination was most commonly applied to religious books, including early...
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Typography

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of aesthetic perfection in the exquisite illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages (see illumination , in art). The first European typographers...newspapers, greeting cards, almanacs, and fine books. For a list of notable type designers...
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Romanesque Architecture and Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Formis in S Italy. Manuscript Illumination Manuscript illumination of the Romanesque period was characterized by a vast enlargement...of overall execution and calligraphic quality Romanesque illuminated books often show a certain carelessness and lack of refinement...
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Book Collecting

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...incunabula , of earlier works. At first criteria were more visual than literary: early printing, fancy binding, and colorful illumination. Richard Heber (1773 1833), whose collection of first editions of literature and history filled several houses, was...
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Library

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Some of the finest manuscript illumination was produced in these libraries...cent. were free public access to books (involving elaborate classification...libraries or deposit stations for books in many parts of cities; in the early...

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