Medieval manuscripts illuminate Pitt-Greensburg course on the history of books Jeff Himler Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 7:01 a.m. | Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 7:01 a.m. Go Ad-Free Today!

These six books carry a considerable weight of scholarship, which also amounts to a 15kg load over nearly half a metre of bookshelf. Three are catalogues and represent the collaborative effort of ...

Illuminated manuscripts - handwritten books with illustrations and decorations painted in vibrant colors and gold - were among the most valuable items owned by renaissance kings and princes.

A film from the Getty Museum introduces viewers to the beautiful handwritten books known as illuminated manuscripts For more on these marvels of the written word, you won't go wrong with ...

Lavish illuminated art will shine again at a ... Pocket-sized piety: At a Montreal exhibit, medieval manuscripts speak volumes about ... The pictures are from medieval devotional books, ...

There are four original manuscripts containing poetry in Old English—the now-defunct language of the medieval Anglo-Saxons—that have survived to the present day. No more, no less. They are ...

Flecks of gold and vibrant swirls of royal blue grace the pages of illuminated royal manuscripts at the British Library in London, which will shortly go on show to the public.

The team looked at medieval works in Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, and Irish and concluded that only about 9 percent of medieval manuscripts survived.

These six books carry a considerable weight of scholarship, which also amounts to a 15kg load over nearly half a metre of bookshelf. Three are catalogues and represent the collaborative effort of ...