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You need not be a history buff to delight in ‘The Manuscripts Club’ Christopher de Hamel tours illuminated manuscripts with scholarly authority, highly engaging prose and magnificent art ...

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 Ridgefield man is collaborating with a team of academics to learn more about history and music after discovering Medieval musical manuscripts that are 800 years old. Hundreds of books surround ...

Accompanying the 17 manuscripts, which range from poems and letters to religious texts, are more than 100 objects gathered from NMI’s collection. St Gallen was always conscious of the fact it ...

In the library museum, which has glass cabinets full of illuminated books from the Ottoman Empire and the Caucasus, as well as many from Bosnia’s medieval kingdom, I was told about a film that ...

Jean Pucelle, Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, 1320s. Lengthy projects. Labor-intensive tools. Delicate detail work. Careful preparation. And, after all that time, only the minimum apparent contribution to ...

They experienced a brief revival, however, in medieval manuscripts towards the end of the 15th century. And they haven’t completely disappeared from the common imagination.

At Least 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts Were Copied by Women. Story by Tibi Puiu • 1w. ... The trend coincided with a rise in vernacular manuscripts — books written in local languages rather ...

MEDIEVAL scribes filled vo­lumes called bestiaries with illustrations and descriptions of fantastic creatures. The manuscripts containing representations of these animals also depended on a ...

There are lots of medieval manuscripts that feature, for example, illuminations (small images) of nuns with cats, and cats frequently appear as doodles in the margins of Books of Hours.