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Livro manuscrito em sânscrito.
Nepal
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Handmade rice paper, hand written letters, handpainting too.
Book (traditional) writthe in sänscrit language (Language ancient about 3000 years) telling about Buddha's Life and His Teachings).
Bought in Nepal - it came with me :)))
This stationery is a reproduction of the cross-carpet page of St. Mark, The Lindisfarne Gospels, c. 698 A.D. This little pocket dragon is pretending he can actually create beautiful art.
the entire orginal manuscript for Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle".
Excerpt from a note at the end of the "Quicksilver":
"The manuscript of the Baroque Cycle was written by hand on 100 percent cotton paper, using three different fountain pens: a Waterman Gentleman, a Rotring, and a Jorg Hysek. It was then transcribed, edited, formatted and printed using eMacs and TeX. When it was totally finished, the TeX version of the manuscript was converted to Quark XPress format using an eMacs LISP program written by the author."
I had forgotten that the manuscript was kept here until I came across the display, and my jaw dropped. Neal Stephenson is one of my favorite authors, and this alone was worth almost the entire trip for me, because I am big goddamn nerd.
chinguetti, a medieval trading center founded in the 13th century is now home for some libraries full of ancient manuscripts. here the library of the Fondation Ahmed al Mahmoud
chinguetti, mauritania
africa2007 trip
As a kid reading the titles in the old mans book collection, I never understood why Steinbeck would write about a bit of driftwood.
As an adult I understand the title but why photograph such?
Fuji X-T1, Samyang 12/2.0, 25 secs at f/11, ISO 400
Temple University Library.
The tables and the manuscripts and books created an appealing pattern. Add a wide angle lens to give the perspective. Unfortunately walking around with a camera and taking pictures creates all sorts of questions by security guards and evil eyes of students and staff.
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The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, England (the others are the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum). Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road. The museum is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.[2]
The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of research, specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Darwin. The Natural History Museum Library contains extensive books, journals, manuscripts, and artwork collections linked to the work and research of the scientific departments. Access to the library is by appointment only.
The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons, and ornate architecture — sometimes dubbed a cathedral of nature — both exemplified by the large Diplodocus cast which dominates the vaulted central hall.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_Museum
London Museum Fisheye Architecture
London Museum Fisheye Architecture
Duomo Museum. Illuminated Manuscript. Florence, Italy. Photos available for purchase at Wits End Photography. Follow my blog Traveling at Wits End for ways to create travel adventures everyday.
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Indisputable facts of Tibet.
In 1959 "there were more than a total of 6,259 monasteries with about 592, 558 resident monks and nuns. These religious centres also housed tens and thousands of statues, [and] religious artifacts. When Mao's convoluted Cultural Revolution was over in 1976, "Chinese government was responsible for the destruction of more than 6000 monasteries in Tibet. The contents of these monasteries – religious images and statues – were destroyed or looted, and millions of ancient and priceless manuscripts burnt. The entire Tibetan way of life was fractured.
www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/03/04/independent-tibet-%E...
The ruins of Nyego (Nyemgo) Monastery at the Manasarovar lake`s edge. It once was associated with Atisha, the Indian master who revived Buddhism in 11th century Tibet. Atisha was so overcome with the beauty of this area he stayed for several days making clay offering "tsha tshas". A former Sakyapa retreat.
Er komt een konijn bij de bakker. Hij vraagt: ‘Bakker, heeft u worteltjestaart?’ De bakker schudt zijn hoofd en het konijn gaat naar huis.
De volgende dag staat het konijn weer voor de toonbank van de bakker.
‘Bakker, heeft u worteltjestaart?’
Weer moet de bakker nee verkopen en met hangende oren gaat het konijn naar huis. Maar nu is het de bakker genoeg. Hij besluit worteltjestaart te bakken! Het is een heel werk, zeker omdat de bakker het voor het eerst doet. Maar het lukt !
En ja, hoor, de volgende dag is daar het konijn weer en vraagt: ‘Bakker, heeft u vandaag wel worteltjestaart?’
Hierop zegt de bakker trots en blij: ‘Jazeker! Ik heb worteltjestaart!’
Waarop het konijn zegt: ‘Vies hè?’
Another of this year's Fourth of July celebration using action on the medium telephoto-zoom. It looks like opening pages of an ancient yellowed but well worn manuscript. I've gotten golden veils like that before with zooms. I do like these hand-held telephoto traces. This EXIF reports 200mm but I probably used more zoom range than shows of the red and gold explosions at different times and during different parts of the visible zoom.
I was in the good spot I used last year although I took shelter under a Roger's Grove tree during the heavenly sprinkle. I ran into the same problems with procedures shooting fireworks at night as I did last year. Maybe I'll get it right before long. This year was a chore: I had to buy my fifth for the fourth on the third! What else could go wrong on my long walk to the fourth venue from the Golden Ponds parking.
The most prominent problem is tracking the action when triggering the exposure: the display and eyepiece go blank and alternate tracking strategy is needed. I am coming up with an apparatus that could overcome the problem, I had trouble with accurately tracking the action while using the monopod so I ditched the monopod this year. Why would I need steady? I have conferred with several psychiatrists about the many people with explosive personality defects even though psychiatrists have little to do with the study of science. There is a marked difference between psychiatrist's study of explosive personalities and the study of psychotics like the Koch Brothers and con-servatives. It's a cause and effect study. The Broes have taken major revenge upon my region of Kochistan with a couple days at 102 degreess and idiots from Alabama, on the run from the South, starting forest fires near Nederland. They probably didn't like their mountain retreat camp. The scoflaws were found at the refuge center. Go figure! Don't take a dump where you dance!
I am adding these "action" shots to my stash, all of the fiery kind. Although I still have a pile to clean up, I dumped even more into storage this year. This one was taken at an opportune time that revealed there were multiple eruptions during the 2 1/2 second exposure. The EXIF reports only the start of zooms. Apparently there was good motion and the usual shakes as the fireworks erupted. I remained impressed with how these can appear stable at all at these slow exposures. The colors: I thought of how to react to the mass of colors.
Detail from an old manuscript at the exhibition “From Albrecht Dürer and Thomas à Kempis” at Museum De Fundatie Zwolle, the Netherlands. This book, the Zwolle Bible, is 550 years old.
Highlights from the Exhibition - From the Medieval to the Modern: Reformation, Transformation and Continuity.
Royal Patent, creating James Hamilton Viscount Claneboye, 1622
PRONI Reference: D4216/1/2
Clanmorris Papers
Reproduced with kind permission from Deputy Keeper of the Records, PRONI
This is a hand-written manuscript produced on some type of fine polished animal skin. I own two of them, which I bought very inexpensively years ago. One has a defect at the edge of the page, and this one has some sort of random mark on oneside. I used to do a lot of calligraphy, some with handmade reed pens, so I could appreciate how these scribes worked. Years ago, pages like this were plentiful and not really seen as any type of art form.
Edward Johnston, a calligrapher who was largely responsible for the rebirth of the art during the last century, wrote a lot about the old scribes. He said that "the thing that would have struck us most--even more than the skill, would have been the speed with which he wrote...they didn't seek beauty directly....everything they did was primarily for use and even those gorgeous letters they put in their illuminated manuscripts were primarily for use as book markers. " He went on to point out that despite the utilitarian goal, scribes had a "dream of divine beauty that they were seeking," and thus were able to manifest it in their work.
IMG_1887 Wall in the Old Blind School, Liverpool. To me it looks like musical notation - minims and semi quavers. It's the glue from underneath the old wall surface which has been removed. The texture is remarkable - when i ran my fingers over the marks they "spoke" quite loudly.
The Schuyler Jones Project came to an end a few weeks back. 16948 images. This photograph shows the enormity of the collection, the folders, boxes and slide carousels which held Skyes images.
Pitt Rivers Museum Photographic and Manuscript Collections Oxford.
Continuing to delve into memories of the season.
The leaves around the edges are a direct scan from a flatbed scanner.
The hours of Henri VIII, in Latin -
manuscript illuminated by artist Jean Poyer about 1500
The Morgan Library MS H.8 fol-3r
Labours of the months
themorgan.org/collection/hours-of-henry-viii/10
In 2012 fundamentalist Islamists took over the city of Timbuktu, Mali. Fearing for the safety of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts, some dating from the 11th Century, a group of librarians and preservationists smuggled between 200,000 and 400,000 manuscripts from Timbuktu to the Malian capital of Bamako.
Since that time, the NGO SAVAMA-DCI ("Sauvegarde et Valorization des Manuscripts pour la defense de la Culture Islamique" in French, translated to English as "Association for the Protection and Promotion of Manuscripts and the Defense of Islamic Culture"), has worked to clean, protect, restore, digitize, and eventually translate hundreds of thousands of manuscripts.
This photo shows a worker gently cleaning the dust and other contaminants off one of the ancient manuscripts.
For more information on the group and their work, see my story at stories.fischerfotos.com/preserving-malis-historic-manusc...