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Saw this less than 10 minutes after seeing the paperback book "Dialogues with the devil". It was on it's sides. How old?
This manuscript, illustrated with 155 marginal paintings, is one the few surviving “marginal psalters,” in which images provide a pictorial commentary on the Biblical text. Other examples include the Khludov Psalter (ca. 850 CE, Moscow, State Historical Museum, Muz. 129), the Barberini Psalter (ca. 1050 CE, Vat. Barb. Gr. 372), the Theodore Psalter (1066 CE, London, British Library, Add. Ms. 19,352), and a Cyrillic psalter made in Kiev (1397 CE, Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, cod. OLDP, F6). The Walters' psalter was apparently copied from the same eleventh-century model as the Saint Petersburg manuscript, as the iconography of the two is very similar.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
For this PUSH I was paired with the inspirational, comical, and kind of (I say this with affection) mad genius, Hydrophobic Peacock. I knew he could knock out any challenge I threw at him, but I was also nervous of what he'd throw back at me! :)
His words: "Here's what I'd like you to do: a night shot, but make it yours, with your sense of light and color and bokeh and fun. Maybe light lines from cars or planes? Maybe light writing? Own the night!"
Did I own the night, or at least the light?!
I really want to make this poem, I love it's rhythm and I love how proud Bilbo is about him writing it! It just has a wonderful restrained majesty about it that is sooo Aragorn!
Hoping the lay-out is well balanced. You've no idea what I've gone through as an entirely visual person with appalling maths to put this thing together! After fiddling around I ended up printing out each line on a graph my son made up for me on the computer and then printing it, cutting it out and sticking it onto an enormous sheet of graph paper I stuck together...mostly by eye. Goodness knows when I'll get the courage to even attempt this :)
day 134::365
read more about this photo and others @ my 365 blog the elegance of words
kinda cool on black; texture courtesy of irisb477
I’ve been tagged by the talented and artistic ewixx, so here’s a little bit about me that you may not know:
~Growing up, I wanted to be a writer, and in high school, I was convinced I would be a writer. In college, I majored in English and creative writing. But I learned that fiction and poetry writing wasn’t my life’s gift. So now, I write a lot. Just not in that way.
~I love words. I love reading. I love books. I have the best job in the world – a librarian.
~I have sisters who are twins. Twins have a special magical twin thing which baffled me a bit growing up. At night, while they were sleeping, they spoke in a strange twin language to each other. I didn’t like to sleep in the same room with them.
~I should have been born in 19th century England. And lived on the moors.
~I believe that toys have an inner life.
~I am surrounded by the sea on all sides.
~I am addicted to earrings.
~As my children get older, they get better and better. I like them a lot.
~I miss my father.
~Nicknames past and present (promise not to laugh): Lucy Ricardo, Red, Spooky, Luce, Mona Lisa, the Cucumber Kid, Boss, Lucy Loo, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
OK – enough about me. (Well, if you're dying to read 10 more things about me, click here.)
I’ve tagged a few people over on the right – now it’s your turn!
Permit from the Board of Health at Honolulu issued to Robert Louis Stevenson to visit the leper settlement at Molokai, dated May 20, 1889.
Penn Libraries call number: EC85 St485 890f
Description: Sample page of a book printed in English Braille titled "Extracts from the Imitation of Christ, by Thomas A Kempis. Embossed in the Braille Type by the British & Foreign Blind Association, For Promoting the Education and Employment of the Blind, 33, Cambridge Square, London." Thin hardcover volume with red marbled paper on the cover.
Date: 1886
Format: text
Digital Identifier: EBIMG_2508
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
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
Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian
And when you might think I was bored on that ship photographing all those silly signs...I was. To me nothing in the world is so boring as being on a ship for longer than an hour. There is land in sight for some minutes, even seagulls stop following after an hour or two, There's a cinema and the only movie I wanted to see was broken, there's a band, but it stops singing at 12am, there's a beautiful bar, closing at 12:30am, the time a normal bar makes most money, sleeping is impossible on a moving ship, my friends sleeping like an ox within a second, outside is rain and darkness...BOOOORING from start to finish...
So I hope you like these silly signs ;-)
Established heading: Schirlentz, Nickel
Printer in Wittenberg, died after 1523
Penn Libraries call number: GC5 D7828 524c
Montblanc Moctezuma Review on YouTube:
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The Montblanc Patron of Art Homage to Moctezuma I.
The Limited Edition collection honours the remarkable artistic and architectural achievements of Aztec culture, and the influence of one of its great leaders, Moctezuma I.
Every spring since 1992, Montblanc introduces the Patron of Art pen collection which pays tribute to those who exemplify the importance of art patronage throughout the world. The stellar names include Peggy Guggenheim, Pope Julius II and the latest being Roman emperor Publius Aelius Hadrianus. The Homage to Hadrian pen collection features gold-coated cones and cap tops, a reflection of the Roman buildings commissioned by Hadrian. This year’s Patron of Art Homage to Moctezuma I continues to be a fantastic example of Montblanc’s expertise in pen making.
Moctezuma I (1398-1469) also known as Moctezuma Ilhuicamina was the second Aztec emperor and fifth king of Tenochtitlan, ruling from 1440 to 1469. Under his reign, Tenochtitlan, which is now the center of Mexico City, blossomed thanks to social, economical and political reforms. The limited edition designs are released as part of the Patron of Art Homage that honours the remarkable artistic and architectural achievements of Moctezuma I. To coincide with the release of the Patron of Art Homage to Moctezuma I Limited Editions, Montblanc is introducing a fine stationery notebook in red calfskin Saffiano leather embossed with traditional Aztec motifs.
The latest Montblanc Patron of the Art Limited Edition 2020 collection is their Ode to Moctezuma 1 the ruler, who has shaped the image of Aztec culture and remains a great inspiration to write our own legacy. I really hope that the glyphs that are on the side of the fountain pen were chosen for their content and not just for an artistic flair. Contacting a Mayan scholar such as Floyd G Lounsbury would have upgraded their end product. I will try to locate and contact his colleagues to spread the word as they should have sufficiently deep pockets to drop the penny. Limited to 87 pieces.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Lounsbury
Beginning in 1938 with his contributions to the Green Bay, Wisconsin-based Oneida Language and Folklore Project, while he was still an undergraduate, Floyd Lounsbury sustained a lifelong interest in indigenous languages—especially those, such as Oneida and Cherokee, in the Iroquoian family. His doctoral dissertation, published in 1953 as Oneida Verb Morphology, remains to this day the scholar’s bible for the basic structure and terminology of Iroquoian languages.
Iroquoian linguistics was not, however, Lounsbury’s only academic focus. He worked in acoustic phonetics and speech recognition; he refined new ways to teach linguistics, particularly with respect to field methods; he critiqued lexicostatistics and glottochronology; he wrote on the psychology of language; and he published on the history of anthropology. He was one of the most sought-after and influential anthropological linguists of his time.
Born and raised in Wisconsin farming communities, Lounsbury enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1932. He took nearly a decade to complete his undergraduate program because of the Great Depression’s economic necessities, but the extended period also allowed him to come in contact with a wide array of linguists and anthropologists and to adopt a thoughtful and measured approach to undergraduate education. Lounsbury majored in mathematics but also studied languages—primarily German but also Latin, Greek, Scandinavian languages, and Old Irish—along with phonetics, phonology, philology, and emerging theories of structuralist linguistics. After receiving his Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University in 1949, Lounsbury accepted an appointment to its Department of Anthropology and remained at Yale until his retirement in 1979. Whether in classes, conferences, workshops, or personal conversation, Lounsbury’s students and colleagues considered him ever humble, generous, and insightful, with a prodigious memory for detail, a wide-ranging curiosity, and a formidable intellect.
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Fountain Pen Patron of Art Homage to Moctezuma I Limited Edition 4810. USD$13,000.00
Limited to 87 pieces.
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Moctezuma I was crowned ruler of the great Aztec Empire in 1440, thereby ushering in the golden age of the Aztecs. During his reign, he shaped the image of the Aztec state that we are familiar with today – one rich in culture and mythology. The capital city of Tenochtitlán, today’s Mexico City, blossomed under his rule. The Montblanc Patron of Art Homage to Moctezuma I Limited Edition 4810 with champagne-tone gold-coated fittings is dedicated to this supreme ruler of one of the most special cultures in world history. The overall design is inspired by an "atlatl", an Aztec spear-throwing device. The shape of the cone, refined with a hammer finish, is based on an Aztec sacrificial knife with an obsidian blade. The lacquer colors – petrol and carmine red – are inspired by the colors of the royal cloak. Two hieroglyphs decorating the cap symbolize the years of Moctezuma I's reign. The handcrafted Au 750 solid gold nib is adorned with a fine engraving inspired by the Aztec glyph for the city of Tenochtitlán: a three-armed cactus with a royal diadem and two scrolls.
Features
Clip: Champagne-tone gold-coated clip
Barrel: Red lacquered barrel
Cap: Pattern on cap underneath translucent petrol lacquer
NIB: Handcrafted Au 750 / 18 K solid gold, champagne-tone gold-coated nib with special design.
Montblanc Patron of Art Limited Edition 8
This edition, which comprises just eight pieces, is all about the pageantry of Moctezuma I and the Templo Mayor. The pen features an 18-karat champagne-tone gold cap whose elongated shape is set with diamonds, garnets, green tsavorites and multi-coloured sapphires. It is also decorated with a hand engraving of the winged Huitzilopochtli, patron god of the Aztecs.
Three-dimensional engravings of an eagle and cactus represent the foundation myth of the Aztec capital, while the two double-headed snakes symbolize renewal, fertility and luck. The spear-shaped clip is embellished with a triangular-cut green jade, and the cap crown sparkles with a Montblanc diamond. The barrel of the writing instrument is made of dark red jasper, with 18-karat champagne-tone gold inlays.
Montblanc Patron of Art Limited Edition 87 - 2020
This version is limited to just 87 pieces in homage to 1987, the year when the Templo Mayor was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. The Montblanc Patron of Art Limited Edition 87 employs turquoise, which is a familiar stone used in Aztec decoration, and Central American cocobolo wood, a reference to the material used to make the traditional atlatl.
The mosaic is handcrafted, making every one of the pieces in the edition unique. The mother-of-pearl Montblanc emblem is embedded in an engraving of a traditional Aztec sun disc on the cap crown.
The handcrafted 18-karat gold gold nib is engraved with a glyph denoting the heart, a symbol of sacrifice. A further glyph engraved represents the second name of Moctezuma I: Ilhuicamina (meaning, “He who shoots an arrow into the sky.”).
Montblanc Patron of Art Limited Edition 888
The colors of this edition–turquoise and carmine–were used in fashioning royal garments. The sterling silver pen cap is artfully engraved with a traditional Aztec décor, and the lacquered barrel is engraved with a pattern again reminiscent of Moctezuma I’s cloak. It features four lines in 18-karat champagne-tone gold, evoking the directions that radiated from the Templo Mayor, the main temple and the literal center of the Aztec world.
The spear-shaped clip features an engraving of a quetzal’s feather, and it is set with a triangular-cut green jade. The forepart of the writing instrument and the cone are crafted from sterling silver, contrasting with the 18-karat champagne-tone gold fittings and the handcrafted solid gold nib. The Montblanc emblem, made of mother-of-pearl, is embedded in the engraving of an Aztec sun disk.
On. The right: Montblanc 888 Edition estimate C$3-4,000.00 plus tax.
Client: Matt & Leslie - Elizabeth Scott Photography
Stock: 600gsm Cotton Stock
Ink(s): Teal / Gray / Blind
Finishing: Round Cornering / Edge Coloring
Read more about these business cards on our blog: Letterpress Cards for Elizabeth Scott Photography
This letter is dated August 14, 1876. At that time Boggs would have been an instructor at what would become Virginia Tech.
In the early 19th Century Robert Pocock was the first local printer, historian, antiquarian and natural history observer in the town of Gravesend in Kent (UK). He was a major figure in the history of the town. He had a 'museum' of artifacts, collected by himself but also acquired from all over the world. His collections included thousands of local plants in an herbarium which, in 2013, the Robert Pocock Herbarium Project set out to find at the Natural History Museum.
A page from one of the books written by Pocock for children (I assume that it was printed and published by him also). It is claimed that this work is amongst the earliest books published specifically to help children learn to read.
Bronze military diplomas showing that the former soldier had been honorably discharged after his full 30 year term of service. ROman Imperial, 99 AD and 160 AD. Roman-Germanic Museum (Römisch-Germanisches Museum), Köln, Germany. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
A recently acquired fountain len with a 14 carat gold nib. Mentmore was originally a British company, now it is Chinese, probably just a trading name for Chinese Duke pens. This pen is a small object of beauty. Built with a brass body, overlaid with a decorative acrylic finish. I had the medium nib adjusted to give a wetter ink flow. It's quite a large pen, 138mm closed and 122 open without the cap posted. It weighs about 58grams, and for me is too large and heavy with the cap posted.
It fits in my hand and writes very easily with the cap unposted, with a good wet flow of ink. I'm currently using Pelikan 4001 blue-black ink in it, which seems very quick drying. Despite being left-handed, I've yet to smudge my writing using this pen.
The paper is thin white card and the text is from a Latin breviary - clearly, I can make no claims to beautiful handwriting.
I've tried to colour-match the 3 images - the one of the whole pen, cap unposted, is most accurate.
Much to my amazement, a few of you have sent me private emails inquiring if I was doing the Chinese Word Game soon. Over the holidays, I've come up with a new series and some drawings.
Some Chinese words are based on pictograph/ pictogram/ pictogramme, which means the written words, at least at one point in history, resemble the icon, or ideogram, of the word's meaning.
I've drawn a few pictures here, as well as the modern writing of the word derived from the ideogram.
Please guess what the word(s) mean(s).
*** Those who understand Chinese language, please refrain from participating. ***
*** Also, please do not use internet apps to find the answer, that is cheating and defeats the whole idea of the game, don't you think?? ***
THANK YOU!
(:D
Stamp:
Aus der Bibliothek der Hochschule für Philosophie ausgeschieden
Established heading: Hochschule für Philosophie München
Penn Libraries call numbers:
GC55 D4102 600i All images from this book
FC55 C8368 554a 1588 All images from this book
FC55 C8967 570p 1588 All images from this book
21.4.2011: detail from the funerary altar of Q. Fulvius Faustus and Fulvius Priscus, first half of the 1st century AD. From the Via Porta San Sebastiano, Rome. In the Terme di Diocleziano, Museo Nazionale Romano Rome.