Book of Kells Now Free to View Online | Trinity College Library Dublin As part of the general celebration of St Patrick’s Day at Trinity, we would like to announce that the Book of Kells in its entirety is now viewable in the Library’s new Digital Collections online repository, provided by the Library’s Digital Resources and Imaging Services. Direct link to the Book of Kells online The Book of Kells transparencies, originally captured by Faksimile Verlag, Lucerne, Switzerland in 1990, have recently been rescanned using state of the art imaging technology. In addition, we would like to direct you to the new iPad app of the Book of Kells, with added functionality and commentary. For those in Dublin this weekend, entry to the Book of Kells and Old Library Exhibition is free to all this Sunday 17th, in honour of our national saint’s day. Have you seen the new volume on the Book of Kells by Trinity’s Head of Research Collections and Keeper of Manuscripts, Dr Bernard Meehan? Like this: Like Loading...
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Online Library: Die Manessesche Liederhandschrift, 1300-1315 Manesse : "Die Manessesche Liederhandschrift", 1300-1315 Notes on the Manessesche Liederhandschrift Manuscript Note: Permission to present the images in this online library via links was graciously provided by the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Recently, the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg has completed the entire Manesse manuscript containing more than 422 plates. Backgrounder Manessesche Liederhandschrift or the Manessesche song handwriting originated in in the first quarter 14th Century in the area of Zurich. Beside the poems of the minnesaenger also illustrations of the respective singer in job were given, which represents the artist in an environment characterizing him. The miniatures one-eat by four different painters and their assistants were painted. The supplement painters, who created the paintings to approx. 1330 still altogether created 27 miniatures, which are somewhat " more modern " regarding mode and armament. Overview
Media - Hoe onderzoek je een boek zonder het te lezen? Erik Kwakkel is geen alledaagse wetenschapper. Als een echte Sherlock Holmes bestudeert hij middeleeuwse boeken van top tot teen, behalve... door ze te lezen. En toch komt de historicus via zijn methode enorm veel over die boeken te weten. Eveneens is Kwakkel een wetenschapper die actief blogt en tweets in de wereld rondstuurt. Wat zijn onderzoek allemaal aan het licht brengt en wat de voordelen van een 'sociale wetenschapper' zijn komt Kwakkel (Universiteit Leiden) in onze studio uitleggen. Actua: Vrouwenlichaam vaak nog te onbekend bij artsen Volgens het vrouwennetwerk Women inc. weten artsen vaak nog niet genoeg af over het vrouwelijke lichaam. We bellen met vrouwencardiologe Angela Maas (Radbouw UMC), die één van de hoofdauteurs is van de Kennisagenda en vandaag ook een pitch in Den Haag deed. Actua: Goed nieuws voor de eiwitten onder u! Best eiwit, het is bekend dat je leven al jaren de dupe is van de talloze sociale regeltjes waar jij je aan moet houden. En verder...
Mandragore base des manuscrits enluminés Corpus Christi College Oxford - Special Lectures F W Bateson Memorial Lectures The F W Bateson Memorial Lecture was founded by the pupils and friends of F W Bateson (1901-1978). Bateson taught English at Corpus from 1946 to 1969, first as a lecturer and later as a teaching fellow. He was made an Emeritus Fellow of the College on his retirement in 1969. Professor Christopher Cannon, Professor of English at New York University and author of books on Chaucer's language, form and early Middle English literature, delivered the 2016 F W Bateson Memorial Lecture in the MBI Al Jaber Auditorium at 5pm on Monday 8 February. Jenny Uglow OBE, British biographer, critic and publisher delivered the 2015 F W Bateson Memorial Lecture. The lectures are held annually and a full list of previous lectures can be found here. Isaiah Berlin Lectures Isaiah Berlin read Greats (Classics) at Corpus, finding it 'cute', according to his letters. Further information can be found at President's Seminars
Manuscripta Mediaevalia - Startseite Book Culture | medievalbooks What a clever device the book is. It is compact and light, yet contains hundreds of pages that hold an incredible amount of information. Moving forward or backward in the text is as easy as flipping a page, while the book’s square shape and flat bottom facilitates easy shelving. Crucially, to look up information in a book you must have first located the object. 1. Why make things complicated? The manuscript shown in Figs. 1-2 was copied around 1100 and still has its original binding. 2. Writing text on a manuscript’s cover, as seen in Fig. 2, was not easy. The manuscript in Figs. 3-4, which features a parchment label, shows how incredibly effective this practice was: it clearly reads Liber ethymolo[giarum] Isidori, telling the reader that he was about to open Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies. As detailed as these labels are, they exclusively list the titles of the works contained by the manuscript, not the authors’ names. 3. 4. Like this: Like Loading...
Book historian documents bored scribes' scribbles in 1,000-year-old Medieval manuscripts - Home | As It Happens Before Gutenberg invented the printing press, the book business could be a form of torture. Imagine copying out page after page of Fifty Shades of Grey with a quill pen, all day, every day, for the rest of your life. Considering that existence, it's not surprising that Medieval scribes let their attention and pens wander from time to time out of boredom. "I encountered [scribe doodles] almost every day as I read Medieval books," Professor Erik Kwakkel, a book historian at Leiden University in Holland, tells As It Happens host Carol Off. Professor Kwakkel and one of his Medieval tomes (Photo: Screen capture) These 13th and 14th century doodles were also exercises to start the flow of ink on the nibs scribes' quills. "There are locations that are very doodle-friendly, they are empty, blank," Kwakkel says. Some of these doodles were nondescript scribbles or stick men. (Photo courtesy of Erik Kwakkel) "I like the ones that are made by scribes that try to produce a decorated letter," he says.
X-rays reveal 1,300-year-old writings inside later bookbindings | Books Medieval manuscripts that have been hidden from view for centuries could reveal their secrets for the first time, thanks to new technology. Dutch scientists and other academics are using an x-ray technique to read fragments of manuscripts that have been reused as bookbindings and which cannot be deciphered with the naked eye. After the middle ages manuscripts were recycled, with pages pasted inside bindings to strengthen them. Those fragments may be the unique remains of certain works. Dr Erik Kwakkel, a medieval book historian at Leiden University, told the Observer: “It’s really like a treasure trove. Professor Joris Dik, of the Delft University of Technology, described the potential for finding new material with clues to the past as “massive”. Access to such “hidden libraries” has been made possible by macro x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (MA-XRF), which allows pages to be read without removing the bookbinding. Referring to Mocella’s technology, Dik said: “It’s different.
Medieval doodles prove that it's goode to scribble in ye margins | The Independent Medieval scribes got just as bored at work as you do. Hunched over piles of parchment and the heavy books they were tasked with copying, long before Gutenberg and Xerox changed everything, they responded in the same way – by doodling. Stick men, scribbles and 1,000-year-old smiley faces adorn the margins and blank pages of the world's oldest manuscripts. For a book historian in the Netherlands, they represent a portal to a lost time, and are as rich a source of discovery as the texts themselves. Erik Kwakkel, from Leiden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands, says there are two types of medieval doodle: the idle shapes that we all produce; and "pen trials", which scribes used to get their nibs flowing after regular cutting. "This was a time when a book cost as much as a second-hand car today and there was no scrap paper," Kwakkel explains after revealing his latest discovery: a rare medieval bookmark. An example of early doodles kept at Leiden University in the Netherlands
Meet the Man Who Catalogs Medieval Cartoons - Modern Notion Just take a cursory look at the art from medieval times and you’ll be as convinced as I that people living through the Middle Ages were somewhat humorless. Maybe it’s the stylistically placid faces, or the heavily religious overtones, or the fact that someone is always burning a witch, but I’ve often felt that medieval folks really just didn’t get the joke. And yet Erik Kwakkel, a medieval book historian from Leiden University in the Netherlands, sees something more. He seeks out medieval cartoons; signs of humor and personality in ancient stately manuscripts. These scribbles and doodles squeezed into the margins, letters, and back pages of old books have become clues about people who, it seems, were very much like us. Doodles down the left side of a text column Faces wedged inside lettering His cartoon-spying comes as a bonus of his daily work, which involves the study of European book production between the 9th and 16th centuries. read on below... Recommended Medieval pooch
Medieval History, Illuminated: Book Historian Erik Kwakkel Uncovers the Past Through Books | Discover Damaged binding in Leiden University Library shows hidden fragment. Photo by Erik Kwakkel. At Medieval Books, book historian Erik Kwakkel brings the world of medieval manuscripts to life. Erik is a lecturer at Leiden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands, and blogs about this specialized topic in fresh ways. His posts appeal to academics and experts in the field, but also general readers intrigued by his commentary, discoveries, and parallels between medieval and modern times. Here, he talks about a day in the life of a medieval book historian, the benefits of blogging, and getting people excited about history. What does a typical day look like for you? First, I bring the kids to school, and the rest of the day evolves around medieval books. I also teach manuscript courses at Leiden University, and preparing for my classes takes a big chunk out of my day. While I can show on Twitter and my blog what manuscripts look like, I cannot share their smell and feel.
Evolution of the Medieval Book Introduction Among the many innovations that transformed Europe in the Middle Ages, perhaps none was more central than the metamorphosis of the written word. The evolution of writing in this period reached a dramatic climax in the 1450s, when Johann Gutenberg invented moveable metal type—and revolutionized human communication. This exhibition traces the history of the medieval book—its appearance, content, audiences, and forms—from the 9th to the 15th centuries. Lombard Gradual. view image continue reading