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Le monastère de Panayia Hozoviotissa du Xème siècle, est dédié à la Vierge Marie.
Construit à flanc de falaise dans un cadre grandiose, ce monastère doté d’une architecture époustouflante mérite bien les 405 marches pour y accéder.
Deux icônes de la Vierge Marie et d'autres reliques religieuses de la période d'Alexios I Komnenos ont été trouvés au monastère. Des héritages importants tels qu'un manuscrit, des évangiles, des vêtements et des ustensiles ecclésiastiques datant du Xème au XIXème siècle sont également exposés.
The 10th century monastery of Panayia Hozoviotissa, is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Built into a cliffside in a grandiose setting, this architecturally stunning monastery is well worth the 405 steps to reach it.
Two icons of the Virgin Mary and other religious relics from the period of Alexios I Komnenos were found at the monastery. Important heritages such as a manuscript, gospels, vestments and ecclesiastical utensils dating from the 10th to the 19th century are also on display.
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 :)))
Bana (ბანა) is the most unusual Cathedral in the history of Georgian architecture. Built in the historical region of Georgia Lower Tao (now part of Turkey) and is considered a kind of copy of the Armenian temple Zvartnots, built in the VII century. Now it is in a very dilapidated state and even the turn to it from the highway is not marked.
In the middle of the seventh century, a large temple was built here. Under adarnassus II (881-923), the bishopric of ban was founded, and the Cathedral was rebuilt. The chronicler of the XI century Sumbat son of David tells us that the temple was built by the son of David I Kurapalat - Adarnese II and was directly built by Kvirike Baneli, who became the first Bishop of the temple. After his death, he was buried here. Bana was the summer residence of the Georgian kings, as well as their tomb. In the X-XI centuries, under the leadership of Zakariya Baneli, many valuable manuscripts were created in the temple. According to historical sources, the temple was named after the Holy cross.
According to the historian Vakhushti Batonishvili, the power of Bishop Ban extended to Panaskert, Tao, Oltis and the surrounding territories.
The significance of the Ban is indicated by the fact that here the Georgian king Bagrat IV (1027-1072) married the sister of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos III Argyros (968 — 1034) - Ellen. This wedding is depicted on the mural of the temple of Oshki, where the image of the temple of Ban is still preserved. Here in the XV century, was buried king Vakhtang and his wife Situaton.
From the Chronicles of the Russian-Ottoman war of 1877-1878, it becomes clear that on may 20, 1877, the Ottomans left the village of Penek and fortified themselves in Oltis, waiting for additional reinforcements. On may 21, the Ottomans left Oltis. On may 22, the Russian army occupied Oltis and the village of Penek (Bana) without a fight.
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ბანა (თურქ. Penek Kilisesi) — ძელი ჭეშმარიტის (ანუ ძელი ცხოვლის, იგივე წმ. ჯვრის) სახელობის საკათედრო ტაძარი ისტორიულ სამხრეთ საქართველოში — ტაოში. ძეგლი მდებარეობს თურქეთში, ერზურუმის პროვინციის, შენქაიას ილჩეს, სოფელ პენეკში, მდინარე პენეკ-ჩაის მარჯვენა ნაპირზე.
VII საუკუნის შუა წლებში აქ ააშენეს დიდი ტაძარი. ადარნასე II-ის დროს (881-923) დაარსდა ბანის საეპისკოპოსო, ხოლო ტაძარი გადაკეთდა. XI საუკუნის ისტორიკოსი სუმბატ დავითის ძე გვამცნობს, რომ ტაძარი აუგია დავით I კურაპალატის ძეს — ადარნესე II-ს, კვირიკე ბანელის ხელით, რომელიც ბანას პირველი ეპისკოპოსი გამხდარა. გარდაცვალების შემდეგ იქვე დაუკრძალავთ. ბანა ქართველ მეფეთა საზაფხულო სამყოფი და აგრეთვე მეფეთა განსასვენებელიც იყო. X-XI საუკუნეებში ბანაში მოღვაწე ზაქარია ბანელის თაოსნობით ბევრი ძვირფასი ხელნაწერი შეიქმნა. საისტორიო წყაროს მიხედვით, ტაძარი ძელი ცხოველის (ძელისა ჭეშმარიტისა) სახელობის იყო.
ვახუშტი ბატონიშვილის ცნობით, ბანელი ეპისკოპოსის ძალაუფლება ვრცელდებოდა ფანასკერტზე, ტაოზე, ოლთისზე და მათ მომიჯნავე ტერიტორიებზე.
ბანას დიდ ისტორიულ მნიშვნელობაზე მეტყველებს ის ფაქტიც, რომ აქ დაიწერა ჯვარი საქართველოს მეფე ბაგრატ IV-მ (1027-1072 წწ.) ბიზანტიის იმპერატორის რომანოზ III არგირუსის დაზე — ელენეზე. ეს ჯვრისწერა ასახულია ოშკის სამხრეთ მკლავის ფრესკაზე, სადაც ბანას გამოსახულება დღემდე შემორჩენილია. აქვე, XV საუკუნეში დაკრძალეს საქართველოს მეფე ვახტანგი და მისი მეუღლე სითიხათუნი.
1877-1878 წლების რუსეთ-ოსმალეთის ომის ქრონიკებიდან ირკვევა რომ: 1877 წლის 20 მაისს ოსმალებმა დატოვეს სოფელი პენეკი (რუს. Пеньяк — პენიაკი) და გამაგრდნენ ოლთისში დამატებითი ძალების მოლოდინში. 21 მაისს ოსმალებმა ოლთისიც დატოვეს. 22 მაისს რუსეთის არმიამ უბრძოლველად დაიკავა ოლთისიც და სოფელი პენეკიც.
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.
Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves. Palm leaves were used as writing materials in Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia dating back to the 5th century BCE and possibly much earlier.
The palm leaves are first cooked and dried. The writer then uses a stylus to inscribe letters. Natural colourings are applied to the surface so the ink will stick in the grooves. This process is similar to intaglio printing.
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
rather than chocolate, tulips or gin, i bought some old manuscripts in Amsterdam (most are in french)...the earliest date on them is 1629....Rembrandt would have been 23...
that memory stick won't last more than a few months.....
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.
Ancient Pandulipis (Manuscripts) displayed in the Payana Car Museum, Srirangapatna, Karnataka.
Max Muller (1823-1900) has written in his book that " India is the only country of learned people and scholars in this entire world , where the vast wealth of knowledge is preserved in the form of handwritten texts".
Orality - Manuscripts- Print- Electronic
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.
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.
"Magical miniatures", exhibition at the Museum Catharijneconvent Utrecht
see also my blog: pienw.blogspot.nl/2018/03/magische-miniaturen.html
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.
This is The “Carol I” Central University Library (Biblioteca Centrală Universitară)
The Central University Library (Biblioteca Centrală Universitară) is a beautifully ornate building located opposite the Royal Palace in Revolution Square. The building was designed by French architect Paul Gottereau who also designed the Royal Palace and CEC Building.
Central University Library was founded in 1895 as Carol I Library of the University Foundation. It was built on land bought by King Carol I for the "Carol I University Foundation" (Fundația Universitară Carol I).
The building was completed in 1893 and opened 14 March 1895. In 1911 the building was extended by the same architect and the new wing was opened on 9 May 1914.
It began with an initial stock of 3,400 volumes of books and periodicals. The collection grew to 7,264 volumes in 1899, 31,080 volumes in 1914, and 91,000 volumes in 1944. In 1949 (after its reorganisation on 12 July 1948 as the Central Library of Bucharest University), the collection contained 516,916 volumes; in 1960, about a million; and over 2 million in 1970. The current collection of the library holds over 2,4 million volumes from different fields.
The building was heavily damaged during the December 1989 Revolution when over 500000 books along with 3,700 manuscripts, were burnt. In April 1990, the building was repaired and modernized and reopened 20 November 2001.
Fortunately, an appeal made by UNESCO in 1990 led to an outpouring of sympathy, support and book donations from all over the world: 100 000 books were donated by private individuals and associations in Romania plus 800 000 from elsewhere in the world.
Page from Der naturen bloeme, Jacob van Maerlant, Utrecht, c. 1350. Showing the Best of Nature as an early precursor of Wikipedia. For the first time in Dutch in stead of Latin.
This Medieval Page from a manuscript at Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht, Netherlands. The museum is hosting a unique exhibition: Magical Miniatures with many illustrated, beautiful medieval manuscripts.
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From the Achieves, reprocessed, using Photoshop CC 2020.
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Bateman's is a 17th-century house located in Burwash, East Sussex, England. Author Rudyard Kipling lived in Bateman's from 1902 to his death in 1936. His wife left the house to the National Trust on her death in 1939, and it has since been opened to the public. Bateman's is a modest Jacobean Wealden sandstone mansion built in 1634 for a local ironmaster, John Brittan. Six brick columns form a massive central chimneystack above the gabled facades.
Today the rooms are left as they were when the Kipling family lived there. Kipling and his wife created interiors that complemented the 17th-century house. The heart of the house is the book-lined study, at the top of the stairs, where Kipling worked. He sat at a 17th-century walnut refectory table under the window and his writing tools, paperweight, and pipe are still there. Bateman's also reflects Kipling's strong links with the Indian subcontinent. There are oriental rugs in many rooms and the parlour displays Kipling's collection of Indian works of art and artefacts. His bookplate shows a small figure reading on top of an elephant. Exhibition rooms contain manuscripts, letters, and mementoes of Kipling's life and work. When Kipling first went to Bateman's on a house-hunting expedition in 1900 he fell in love with it at first sight. He purchased it in 1902, and made it his home, even paying for a new road to be built to the nearest main road. Kipling wrote some of his finest works here including: "If—", "The Glory of the Garden", and Puck of Pook's Hill, named after the hill visible from the house. The house's setting and the wider local area features in many of his stories in Puck of Pook's Hill (1906). Kipling's poem "The Land" is inspired by the Bateman's estate. Bateman's was also used in the coloured 1966 edition of Tintin, 'The Black Island' as the basis for the residence of Müller, the ex-Nazi antagonist. In the fictionalised adventure, the house is razed to the ground when a burning log from the hearth is used as a weapon during a scuffle. Exterior scenes for the TV film My Boy Jack about the death of Kipling's young son Jack in the First World War and his family's grief were shot at Bateman's. There is a working watermill on the property using the waters of the River Dudwell, supported by volunteers. The mill race drives the waterwheel outside, and this in turn drives the wooden cogwheels on the ground floor inside. These transfer power upstairs to the millstones. One pair of millstones is encased in wood and has a bell to warn the miller when the corn in the hopper runs out. In the grinding process the corn keeps the millstones apart, preventing sparks and a fire risk. The bell has a strap which is held down by a full hopper of corn. When the hopper is nearly empty, the strap is released, thus ringing the bell.
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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.
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Blickling Hall is a stately home which is part of the Blickling estate. It is located in the village of Blickling north of Aylsham in Norfolk, England and has been in the care of the National Trust since 1940. In the 15th century, Blickling was in the possession of Sir John Fastolf of Caister in Norfolk (1380–1459), who made a fortune in the Hundred Years' War, and whose coat of arms is still on display there. Later, the property was in the possession of the Boleyn family, and home to Thomas Boleyn, later Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife Elizabeth between 1499 and 1505. Although the exact birth dates of their children are unknown, historians including Eric Ives are confident that all three surviving children were likely born at Blickling - Mary in about 1500, Anne in about 1501, and George in about 1504. A statue and portrait of Anne may be found at Blickling Estate which carry the inscription, "Anna Bolena hic nata 1507" (Anne Boleyn born here 1507), based on earlier scholarship which assigned Anne a (now thought highly improbable) year of birth of 1507. The house of Blickling seen today was built on the ruins of the old Boleyn property in the reign of James I, by Sir Henry Hobart, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and 1st Baronet, who bought Blickling from Robert Clere in 1616. The architect of Hatfield House, Robert Lyminge, is credited with the design of the current structure. The Lord Chief Justice married Dorothy, the daughter of Sir Robert Bell of Beaupre Hall, Outwell/ Upwell, Norfolk, Speaker of the House of Commons 1572–1576. A grand display of heraldic material is present throughout the estate. During World War II the house was requisitioned and served as the Officers' Mess of nearby RAF Oulton. It was at this time that the house and its estate passed to The National Trust, under the terms of the Country Houses Scheme. RAF servicemen and women were billeted within the grounds in Nissen Huts, whilst RAF Officers were housed within Blickling itself. The National Trust has created the RAF Oulton Museum on site in tribute to the RAF pilots and ground crew who served in the Second World War, and this may be visited for no additional entrance fee. At the end of the war, the house was de-requisitioned. The National Trust again let it to tenants until 1960, when the Trust began the work to restore the house to a style reflecting its history. The house and grounds were opened to the public in 1962 and remain open under the name of "Blickling Estate". The library at Blickling Estate contains one of the most historically significant collections of manuscripts and books in England. The most important manuscript associated with the house is the Blickling Homilies, which is one of the earliest extant examples of English vernacular homiletic writings. The Blickling homilies were first edited and translated in the 19th century by Richard Morris (Early English Text Society os 58, 63 & 73) and there is a more recent edition and translation by Richard J. Kelly (Continuum, 2003). It is said that every year, on the anniversary of her execution, Anne Boleyn's headless ghost arrives at Blickling in a carriage driven by an equally headless coachman. But she hasn't lost her head completely in the afterlife—she carries it along with her during her hauntings. The exterior of the house was used as 'Maryiot Cells' at 'Maiden Worthy' in Buckinghamshire in the hit 1945 film The Wicked Lady. It was voted the most haunted house in Britain in a National Trust survey in October 2007. A house and garden existed at Blickling before the estate was purchased by the Boleyn family in the 1450s, but no records survive to give an indication of their appearance. After Sir Henry Hobart acquired the estate in 1616, he remodelled the gardens to include ponds, wilderness and a parterre. A garden mount– an artificial hill in Blickling's flat landscape, was made to provide views of the new garden. With the accession of Sir John Hobart (later the 1st Earl of Buckingham) in 1698 the garden was expanded to add a new wilderness and the temple was constructed. In the latter half of the 18th century John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckingham, embarked on works that would radically change the appearance of the gardens. All traces of formality were removed, and naturally arranged clumps of trees were planted to create a landscape garden. By the 1780s an orangery had been built to overwinter tender citrus trees. Following the 2nd Earl's death in 1793, his youngest daughter Caroline, Lady Suffield, employed landscape gardener Humphry Repton and his son John Adey Repton to advise on garden matters. John Adey Repton would go on to provide designs for many garden features. The estate was inherited by nine-year-old William Schomberg Robert Kerr, 8th Marquess of Lothian in 1840. He later re-introduced the formality and colour schemes of the parterre. After his death at the age of 38, responsibility for the gardens rested with Lady Lothian and her head gardener Mr Lyon. Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquis of Lothian, inherited the estate in 1930. After disparaging comments in a publication of Country Life, Lothian engaged socialite gardener Norah Lindsay to remodel the gardens. In the parterre she replaced the jumble of minuscule flower beds with four large square beds planted with a mixture of herbaceous plants in graduated and harmonious colours. Other improvements included removal of a line of conifers in the Temple walk, which were replaced with plantings of azaleas.
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Manuscript title: Silver Book of the Land
Manuscript summary: On 86 leaves of parchment, the Silver Book of the Land contains the statutes of the entire region of Appenzell. It is an assemblage of older legal texts; at a later time more recent statutes were added to it. Following the division of the region of Appenzell that took place in 1597, the book became the property of the Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden and remained valid into the 19th century. Rich decorations consisting of miniatures and initials indicate the great importance attributed to this volume.
Origin: Appenzell (Switzerland)
Period: 16th century
Image source: Appenzell, Landesarchiv Appenzell Innerrhoden, E.10.02.01.01: Silver Book of the Land (www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/laai/E-10-02-01-01)
The Crypt,
St. Mary’s Cathedral,
Sydney, Australia.
Architects: Hennessy & Co.
Construction: Kell & Rigby
St Mary’s Cathedral was built between 1865 and 1882, with additions to the Cathedral as late as 2002.
It was re-built to replace the original Cathedral that was gutted by fire.
William Wardell was the architect who designed the Gothic Cathedral.
The main facade was based on the Notre Dame in Paris and the overall design is similar to Lincoln Cathedral in England.
The Crypt
Located below St Marys Cathedral is a magnificent sanctuary known as The Crypt.
The Crypt is the resting place of the deceased Archbishops of Sydney.
One of the features of The Crypt is the beautiful terrazzo and mosaic floors.
The quality of the workmanship is superb, and the materials are of the highest quality, producing work that would be difficult to reproduce in the modern era.
Symbolism plays an important role in the design of the intricate floor.
The floor is dominated by a huge Celtic Cross amidst a mix of complex swirls and geometric shapes.
The Melocco Bros were responsible for the elegant artwork of The Crypt’s floor.
Peter Melocco drew inspiration from The Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript of The Gospels.
The Story of Creation is featured, also the Virgin Mary is depicted symbolically.
The Hardman Bros designed and constructed the fine stained glass windows that adorn the walls.
The Kelly Memorial Chapel Altar features a bas relief made of marble, depicting Jesus Christ’s burial.
The ornate ceiling features some paintings of native flora.
The Polding Altar is made of fine marble, and shows scenes of Jesus’s final days.
The stained glass windows highlight the life of the Virgin Mary.
The slabs placed above the graves of former Catholic leaders are works of art with delicate inscriptions.