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Still from "The Call" animation on the Illuminated Manuscripts DVD.
The Alhambra (Spain) on a lake in Keswick. Stone steps also from the Lake District.
Flowers in a field in the Midwest.
This is an opening shot from a portion of the disc that is loosely based on the journey cycle.
Alexander Grant (1856 - 1942) was a native of Battangorm, Carrbridge, which gave rise to his familiar name - 'Battan'. As a boy he was exposed to what were to become his two great passions - fiddling and fishing. He went on to excel in both areas; as an angler by inventing his own unique fishing rod known as the 'Grant Vibration Rod', and as a fiddler by leading the Highland Strathspey and Reel Society for almost forty years and by becoming an expert in fiddle making techniques. He also invented a unique disc-shaped violin known as a 'Rondello'. An example of Grant's fishing rod, fiddle and Rondello can be seen at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (IMAG).
Grant was a great friend of fellow musician and composer James Scott Skinner (1843-1927), a major figure in the development of Scottish traditional music, often referred to as 'The Strathspey King'. This hand-written manuscript was sent to Grant by Skinner. It is undated but Skinner has added the note 'from J Scott Skinner nearing his 81st birthday' which would make the date around 1924. The music is Skinner's violin solo arrangement for 'Dark Lochnagar' a tune originally composed by Miss Gibson, 1841 (Skinner's note)
Напевно, в житті кожної людини, що мислить або намагається мислити, колись настає мить, коли доводиться палити рукописи – усі численні юнацькі тексти, вірші, пісні та ідеї перебудови світу, що довгі роки уявлялися надзначущими… але залишилися у скриньках та шухлядах.
Ймовірно, це неправильно, адже, знищуючи хоча б найменшу частинку своєї історії, ми втрачаємо цілісність, самототожність, послідовність із собою вчорашнім – обмежуючи себе лише сьогоденням.
Утім, «рукописи не горять», тож, все варте життя залишиться всередині тебе, щоб, можливо, колись дати більш зрілі плоди. А язики полум’я на почорнілому папері нехай стануть тим символом, тією ритуальною складовою, завдяки якій прощання із цифровим минулим набуде справжньої відчутності.
This manuscript was created ca. 1500 in Bruges or Ghent, and was influenced by the Master of the Prayerbooks, the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook, and the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani breviary. It was likely made for a female patron with Franciscan affinity, as suggested by the contents of the calendar. The book is heavily illuminated with nineteen miniatures, marginalia on pages without miniatures, and twenty-four calendar illuminations, the latter including zodiac signs paired with illustrations of the labors of the month. Miniatures show detailed interior spaces with Renaissance architectural elements and proportional figures.
Illustrated manuscript of Khalila and Dimna, two jackals who are the main characters of the stories.
AD 1412
This manuscript was made around 1800 by the “Old Believers,” a group of Russian Christians who dissented from the Russian Orthodox Church and were subsequently persecuted and excommunicated. Because their books were often confiscated and they were forbidden to use printing presses, they continued to write important works such as this one by hand. The manuscript contains the text of the New Testament book of Revelation along with a patristic commentary, which is accompanied by a series of seventy-one striking full-page miniatures.
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This manuscript was created ca. 1500 in Bruges or Ghent, and was influenced by the Master of the Prayerbooks, the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook, and the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani breviary. It was likely made for a female patron with Franciscan affinity, as suggested by the contents of the calendar. The book is heavily illuminated with nineteen miniatures, marginalia on pages without miniatures, and twenty-four calendar illuminations, the latter including zodiac signs paired with illustrations of the labors of the month. Miniatures show detailed interior spaces with Renaissance architectural elements and proportional figures.
Description: Manuscript cookbook of Sarah Smith (Cox) Browne, 1863. Note: Brown is at times spelled with or without the "e" at the end.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Brown Family (Additional papers)
Call Number: 87-M144
Catalog Record: id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/012163425/catalog
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A codex containing two short works on precious stones ascribed to Jamāl al-Dīn al-Tifāshī and Aristotle respectively. The piece attributed to Aristotle, the beginning of which you see here, is likely to be a short paraphrase of or an extract from his Liber mineralium (or Lapidarius). This anonymous copy was penned in 989 AH / 1581 CE.
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Highlights from the Exhibition - From the Medieval to the Modern: Reformation, Transformation and Continuity.
Manuscript Copy of the Rathlin Catechism, 1720
PRONI Reference: D3577/1A
Manuscript version of 'The Rathlin Island' Catechism
Reproduced with kind permission from Deputy Keeper of the Records, PRONI
This manuscript was created ca. 1500 in Bruges or Ghent, and was influenced by the Master of the Prayerbooks, the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook, and the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani breviary. It was likely made for a female patron with Franciscan affinity, as suggested by the contents of the calendar. The book is heavily illuminated with nineteen miniatures, marginalia on pages without miniatures, and twenty-four calendar illuminations, the latter including zodiac signs paired with illustrations of the labors of the month. Miniatures show detailed interior spaces with Renaissance architectural elements and proportional figures.
Produced in London in the 1330s, the manuscript provides a unique insight into the English language and literature that Chaucer and his generation grew up with and were influenced by. It acquired its name from its first known owner, Lord Auchinleck, who discovered the manuscript in 1740 and donated it to the precursor of the National Library in 1744. Auchinleck contains a large collection of Middle English poetry, containing a wide range of genres, the above page being one of eight romances; Reinbroun in particular shows an interest in the supernatural and the fairy world. Transcription ....
JULY
Labors of the month July are generally associated with reaping. The scene usually shows a man with a hand scythe cutting the grain. In some occasions, more than one man is shown and sometimes the sun in the background is used to convey the heat of the month. Even though the main occupation is the reaping, it is not uncommon for the scene to represent grain being stacked into bundles.
Link to the "Labors of the month July" set.
Link to the "Labors of the months" collection.
Manuscript title: Book of Hours
Origin: Nantes ? (France)
Period: 15th century
Image source: Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 33, p. 7r – Book of Hours (www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bge/lat0033/7r)
From the Getty's manuscript collection; I think this may have been part of their "Glory of the Gothic Page" exhibition.
This Book of Hours was completed for Use of Reims ca. 1450-1475 in northeastern France. The book was first owned by Collette, who is portrayed on fol. 76r with the Virgin and Child. An inscription from 1559 on the back pastedown records later ownership by female owner G. Marlot, as well as by her aunt, née Labourgue, wife of the merchant Jean Bourguet, followed by G. Marlot's daughter, Martine Marlot. The amount of female content in the book suggests that the patron, Collette, was very wealthy, as the book derives from a normal workshop program. This Book of Hours contains a heightened amount of prayers to the Virgin, virgins listed in the calendar and litany, as well as the Hours of St. Catherine in a devotional sequence. The manuscript also contains charming marginalia, most famously a garden party scene in which couples play music, and even games such as backgammon, together (fol. 16r).
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