Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries
Author : Neil Ripley Ker
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Manuscripts
ISBN :
Author : Neil Ripley Ker
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Manuscripts
ISBN :
Author : Caedmon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 1941-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231515955
The Junius Manuscript
Author : N. R. Ker
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 1964-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780901050137
A list of surviving medieval books by location with lists of donors and scribes; with a glossary.
Author : Anne Van Arsdall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1136613889
This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Nicolas Barker
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Library resources
ISBN : 9780712304092
In this highly-illustrated account, Nicolas Barker reveals the history of the British Library's treasure house of books and manuscripts. The Library's holdings cover collections spanning almost three millennia, from the establishment of the British Museum, which brought together the libraries of Sir Hans Sloane, Sir Robert Cotton and Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, to the foundation of the British Library in 1973 and to some outstanding acquisitions of the present day.
Author : Howard M. Nixon
Publisher : Oxford [England] ; Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Based on the Lyell Lectures given by Howard Nixon at Oxford in 1979, this lavishly illustrated book traces the decorated binding in England from the earliest surviving example, the St Cuthbert Gospel dating from a little before the end of the seventh century, to the beginning of the Modern Movement in the late 1940s. This books emphasis is on fine binding in leather, with the styles and designs used for its decoration, and with the tools employed to effect these designs. This work is the first to trace comprehensively the development of this English tradition and bring together numerous illustrations of the superb bindings produced over the last eight centuries.
Author : Janet Backhouse
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN :
Illuminated manuscripts are among the richest, most revealing relics of the Western world before the introduction of printing. They are central to our knowledge of social and cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance. Drawing on the British Library's collection of medieval manuscripts, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to this art form, embracing both devotional and secular material.
Author : Rodney M. Thomson
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Grossbritannien
ISBN : 9782503542324
"This is the second of a projected series of four volumes describing manuscripts and fragments in British libraries containing commentaries on the Latin Aristotle. This volume covers the University Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum, and the college libraries of the University of Cambridge. It lists 152 items (including a portfolio of fragments from several original books), dating from the tenth century until c. 1500. While a few of these manuscripts came to Cambridge after the Reformation, the majority were already in use in the medieval University. Not many have been adequately described before, while most of the anonymous commentaries have not been listed anywhere. Four indexes are provided to facilitate searching the main text."--Jaquette (volume 2)
Author : Claire Breay
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 9780712352024
The Anglo-Saxon period stretches from the arrival of Germanic groups on British shores in the early 5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. During these centuries, the English language was used and written down for the first time, pagan populations were converted to Christianity, and the foundations of the kingdom of England were laid. This richly illustrated new book - which accompanies a landmark British Library exhibition - presents Anglo-Saxon England as the home of a highly sophisticated artistic and political culture, deeply connected with its continental neighbours. Leading specialists in early medieval history, literature and culture engage with the unique, original evidence from which we can piece together the story of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, examining outstanding and beautiful objects such as highlights from the Staffordshire hoard and the Sutton Hoo burial. At the heart of the book is the British Library's outstanding collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the richest source of evidence about Old English language and literature, including Beowulf and other poetry; the Lindisfarne Gospels, one of Britain's greatest artistic and religious treasures; the St Cuthbert Gospel, the earliest intact European book; and historical manuscripts such as Bede's Ecclesiastical History and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. These national treasures are discussed alongside other, internationally important literary and historical manuscripts held in major collections in Britain and Europe. This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, chart a fascinating and dynamic period in early medieval history, and will bring to life our understanding of these formative centuries.