The Rothschilds And Their Collections Of Illuminated Manuscripts

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The Rothschilds and Their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : Christopher De Hamel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rothschilds and Their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts written by Christopher De Hamel and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art collections of the Rothschilds were legendary for their extravagance and refinement. This is the first history of the Rothschilds as bibliophiles and, especially, as collectors of medieval illuminated manuscripts. It describes the extraordinary collections of the Rothschilds, and the movement of these supremely important manuscripts across the private libraries of Europe. In 1940 the Rothschilds' collections in Paris were looted by the Nazis, and the tale pursues the fate of the stolen manuscripts, some of them still missing. The inquiry traces literally hundreds of illuminated manuscripts, including some of the world's most famous books, made for the Duc de Berry, Catherine of Cleves, Isabella the Catholic, and many others.

Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : L. M. J. Delaissé
Publisher : Unicorn Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Illuminated Manuscripts written by L. M. J. Delaissé and published by Unicorn Press (UK). This book was released on 1977 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely unknown and unpublished, many of the manuscripts at Waddesdon are among the best products of Flemish, French and Italian workshops of the later Middle Ages. Some are valuable for their texts, others for the richness of their illumination.

The Art of Illumination

Author : Timothy Husband
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588392945
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Illumination written by Timothy Husband and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Codices Illustres. The World's Most Famous Illuminated Manuscripts 400 to 1600

Author : Ingo F. Walther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836572859
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Codices Illustres. The World's Most Famous Illuminated Manuscripts 400 to 1600 written by Ingo F. Walther and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A King's Book of Kings

Author : Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870990284
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book A King's Book of Kings written by Stuart Cary Welch and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1972 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Antipodean Early Modern

Author : Anne Dunlop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789462985209
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Antipodean Early Modern written by Anne Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays showcases extraordinary objects held by Australian collections, revealing a wide range of contemporary art and historical research.

The End and the Beginning

Author : Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924279
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The End and the Beginning written by Hermynia Zur Mühlen and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print

Author : Kathryn M. Rudy
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783745193
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print written by Kathryn M. Rudy and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-07-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of a Netherlandish book of hours made in 1500. Image, Knife, and Gluepot painstakingly reconstructs the process by which this manuscript was created and discusses its significance as a text at the forefront of fifteenth-century book production, when the invention of mechanically-produced images led to the creation of new multimedia objects. Rudy then travels to the nineteenth century to examine the phenomenon of manuscript books being pillaged for their prints and drawings: she has diligently tracked down the dismembered parts of this book of hours for the first time. Image, Knife, and Gluepot also documents Rudy’s twenty-first-century research process, as she hunts through archives while grappling with the logistics and occasionally the limits of academic research. This is a timely volume, focusing on questions of materiality at the forefront of medieval and literary studies. Beautifully illustrated throughout, its use of original material and its striking interdisciplinary approach, combining book and art history, make it a significant academic achievement. Image, Knife, and Gluepot is a valuable text for any scholar in the fields of medieval studies, the history of early books and publishing, cultural history or material culture. Written in Rudy’s inimitable style, it will also be rewarding for any student enrolled in a course on manuscript production, as well as non-specialists interested in the afterlives of manuscripts and prints. The Royal Society of Edinburgh has generously contributed to this Open Access publication. Due to the number and quality of the images in this book, we have provided the option of a more expensive hardback edition, printed on the best quality paper available, in order to present the images as clearly and beautifully as possible. We hope this range of options — the freely available PDF, HTML and XML editions; the economically priced EPUB, MOBI and paperback editions; and the more expensively printed hardback — will satisfy everyone. Furthermore the HTML edition allows readers to magnify the images of the manuscripts displayed in the book.

The Manuscripts Club

Author : Christopher de Hamel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525559426
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Manuscripts Club written by Christopher de Hamel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.

From Gutenberg to Google

Author : Peter L. Shillingsburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139459015
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book From Gutenberg to Google written by Peter L. Shillingsburg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As technologies for electronic texts develop into ever more sophisticated engines for capturing different kinds of information, radical changes are underway in the way we write, transmit and read texts. In this thought-provoking work, Peter Shillingsburg considers the potentials and pitfalls, the enhancements and distortions, the achievements and inadequacies of electronic editions of literary texts. In tracing historical changes in the processes of composition, revision, production, distribution and reception, Shillingsburg reveals what is involved in the task of transferring texts from print to electronic media. He explores the potentials, some yet untapped, for electronic representations of printed works in ways that will make the electronic representation both more accurate and more rich than was ever possible with printed forms. However, he also keeps in mind the possible loss of the book as a material object and the negative consequences of technology.

Scribes and Illuminators

Author : Christopher De Hamel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802077073
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Scribes and Illuminators written by Christopher De Hamel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the work of medieval paper, parchment, and ink makers, scribes, illuminators, binders, and booksellers

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Author : Jessica Brantley
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812298454
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms written by Jessica Brantley and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifacts themselves to open some of the most vital theoretical questions in medieval literary studies. With nearly 200 illustrations, many of them in color, the book offers both a broad survey of the physical forms and cultural histories of manuscripts and a dozen case studies of particularly significant literary witnesses, including the Beowulf manuscript, the St. Albans Psalter, the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, and The Book of Margery Kempe. Practical discussions of parchment, scripts, decoration, illustration, and bindings mix with consideration of such conceptual categories as ownership, authorship, language, miscellaneity, geography, writing, editing, mediation, illustration, and performance—as well as of the status of the literary itself. Each case study includes an essay orienting the reader to particularly productive categories of analysis and a selected bibliography for further research. Because a high-quality digital surrogate exists for each of the selected manuscripts, fully and freely available online, readers can gain access to the artifacts in their entirety, enabling further individual exploration and facilitating the book’s classroom use. Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms aims to inspire a broad group of readers with some of the excitement of literary manuscript studies in the twenty-first century. The interpretative frameworks surrounding each object will assist everyone in thinking through the implications of manuscript culture more generally, not only for the deeper study of the literature of the Middle Ages, but also for a better understanding of book cultures of any era, including our own.

Major Poetry

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Major Poetry written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to Alain Chartier (c.1385-1430)

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004290141
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Alain Chartier (c.1385-1430) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Alain Chartier: Père de l’éloquence française contributors explore the diverse literary production of this influential late-medieval writer, whose concern with personal and political ethics and renovation of poetic form inspired generations of writers, and still resonate with modern readers.

The Rothschild Library

Author : Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 839 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book The Rothschild Library written by Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896

Author : Gustav Philipp Körner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896 written by Gustav Philipp Körner and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Journey Through Jewish Worlds

Author : Elka Deitsch
Publisher : Waanders Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Journey Through Jewish Worlds written by Elka Deitsch and published by Waanders Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique edition shows highlights from one of the world's foremost private collections of Hebrew manuscripts and printed books belonging to the Swiss collector Reneacute; Braginsky, who has spent more than three decades building this amazing collection. Eac