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Author : Peter Voorhoeve
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Chester Beatty Library written by Peter Voorhoeve and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chester Beatty Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mughal and Other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library written by Chester Beatty Library and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chester Beatty Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chinese Jade Books in the Chester Beatty Library written by Chester Beatty Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James M Robinson
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227903501
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Bodmer Papyri written by James M Robinson and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted author James Robinson with tracking down the place where the Nag Hammadi Codices had been discovered. Priests whom the author interviewed in the region told Robinson that the codices had once been in the possession of a priest in the town of Dishna, a bit further upstream than Nag Hammadi itself. Robinson found that this priest had not had the Nag Hammadi Codices but rather the Bodmer Papyri. For Dishna is where the monastery headquarters of the first monastic order was located. The Bodmer Papyri discovery consisted of all that was left of the library of the Pachomian monastic order: Coptic letters of Pachomius and very early Greek copies of Luke and John, perhaps donated when Athanasius was in hiding at the monastery. These treasures were preserved in a jar hidden in the mountain where monks were buried. This book traces the story of the Bodmer Papyri from beginning to end.
Author : Kristen Collins
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606069284
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Lumen written by Kristen Collins and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sumptuously illustrated with dazzling objects, this publication explores the ways art and science worked hand in hand in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Through the manipulation of materials, such as gold, crystal, and glass, medieval artists created dazzling light-filled environments, evoking, in the everyday world, the layered realms of the divine. While contemporary society separates science and spirituality, the medieval world harnessed the science of light to better perceive and understand the sacred. From 800 to 1600, the study of astronomy, geometry, and optics emerged as a framework that was utilized by theologians and artists to comprehend both the sacred realm and the natural world. Through essays written by contributors from the fields of art history, the history of science, and neuroscience, and with more than two hundred illustrations, including glimmering golden reliquaries, illuminated manuscripts, rock crystal vessels, astronomical instruments, and more, Lumen cuts across religious, political, and geographic boundaries to reveal the ways medieval Christian, Jewish, and Islamic artists, theologians, and thinkers studied light. To convey the sense of wonder created by moving light on precious materials, a number of contemporary artworks are placed in dialogue with historic objects.
Author : Jennifer Swartwood-Walker
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ISBN 13 : 9781733576871
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (768 download)
Download or read book The Jade Book written by Jennifer Swartwood-Walker and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodore Cressy Skeat
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Papyri from Panopolis in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin written by Theodore Cressy Skeat and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfons Wouters
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Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Chester Beatty Codex AC 1499 written by Alfons Wouters and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Peeters 1988)
Author : Brent Nongbri
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300240988
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book God's Library written by Brent Nongbri and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative book from a highly original scholar, challenging much of what we know about early Christian manuscripts In this bold and groundbreaking book, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While biblical scholars have expended much effort in their study of the texts contained within our earliest Christian manuscripts, there has been a surprising lack of interest in thinking about these books as material objects with individual, unique histories. We have too often ignored the ways that the antiquities market obscures our knowledge of the origins of these manuscripts. Through painstaking archival research and detailed studies of our most important collections of early Christian manuscripts, Nongbri vividly shows how the earliest Christian books are more than just carriers of texts or samples of handwriting. They are three-dimensional archaeological artifacts with fascinating stories to tell, if we’re willing to listen.
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Arabic Printed Books in the British Museum: A-Z. 1894-1901 written by British Museum. Dept. of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Alfred Chester Beatty
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Some Oriental Bindings in the Chester Beatty Library written by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodore Cressy Skeat
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004139206
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Collected Biblical Writings of T.C. Skeat written by Theodore Cressy Skeat and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of a collection of papyrologist T.C. Skeat's articles related to the production of New Testament manuscripts and to textual criticism. J.K. Elliott introduces the essays and assesses Skeat's importance in these fields.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Ellis-Gorman
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 152678954X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Medieval Crossbow written by Stuart Ellis-Gorman and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth, illustrated history and technical study of this iconic weapon of the Middle Ages. The crossbow is an iconic weapon of the Middle Ages and, alongside the longbow, one of the most effective ranged weapons of the pre-gunpowder era. Unfortunately, despite its general fame it has been decades since an in-depth history of the medieval crossbow has been published, which is why Stuart Ellis-Gorman’s detailed, accessible, and highly illustrated study is so valuable. The Medieval Crossbow approaches the history of the crossbow from two directions. The first is a technical study of the design and construction of the medieval crossbow, the many different kinds of crossbows used during the Middle Ages, and finally a consideration of the relationship between crossbows and art. The second half of the book explores the history of the crossbow, from its origins in ancient China to its decline in sixteenth-century Europe. Along the way it explores the challenges in deciphering the crossbow’s early medieval history as well as its prominence in warfare and sport shooting in the High and Later Middle Ages. This fascinating book brings together the work of a wide range of accomplished crossbow scholars and incorporates the author’s own original research to create an account of the medieval crossbow that will appeal to anyone looking to gain an insight into one of the most important weapons of the Middle Ages.
Author : Charles Dexter Allen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Book-plates written by Charles Dexter Allen and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marina Rustow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691189528
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Lost Archive written by Marina Rustow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentation The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909–1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer. Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper’s westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region’s administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology. Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly.
Author : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Coptic Apocrypha in the Dialect of Upper Egypt written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
