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Facsimile Editions Greek and Latin Aldus began his professional career as a teacher, not as a printer, and as such saw a need for the publication of the Greek and Latin classical authors, whose works figured high in the Renaissance humanist agenda. While many of these works--particularly those of Latin authors and translations of those by Greek authors--had been published by the end of the fifteenth century, a large number had not yet seen print. This lack was especially acute in the case of Greek authors, and when Aldus decided to begin a printing business these authors were the ones he emphasized. His development of greek and italic fonts and the octavo format point toward a carefully planned program for the dissemination of the ancient classics. Under Aldus's program, works of numerous Greek and Latin authors were published for the first time, and works by others appeared in better editions than had previously been available. 12.

Hypertext Book of Hours - Introduction The calendar used in Europe during the Middle Ages followed a system developed originally by the ancient Romans. In the Roman system, the year was divided into twelve months, as it is in the modern calendar, but the days of the months were not numbered consecutively as they are today. Instead, three key days were identified by name: Kalends (the 1st), Ides (the 13th or 15th, depending on the month), and None (the ninth day before Ides). All other days were related to these two, by saying, for example, "today is the second day before the Ides of March." One important difference between the Roman system and the one employed during the Middle Ages was that medieval Europeans superimposed on the Roman calendar a list of the Christian feast days. The twenty-fifth day in the month of December, for example, was equated with the Feast of Christ's Nativity ("Christmas"), the fourteenth of February was called "St.

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: About Us The Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts (2006-2013). In 2013 active development on the CDMMSS ceased, and in 2015 the site was retired. This site was designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web. As electronic resources continue to permeate scholarship, the challenge of keeping abreast with new developments becomes ever more pressing. The Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts seeks to provide a technological solution to a simple and rather delightful “problem”: the breathtaking increase in the number of medieval manuscripts available on the web in their entirety, but in a bewildering range of venues and formats. Digitizing medieval manuscripts and releasing the images on the web has a long history, but the number of digitized manuscripts rises swiftly as the cost of high-quality digital images decreases, and the expertise needed to create easily navigable web sites becomes more common.

Book of hours Book of hours, Paris c. 1410. Miniature of the Annunciation, with the start of Matins in the Little Office, the beginning of the texts after the calendar in the usual arrangement. Books of hours were usually written in Latin (the Latin name for them is horae), although there are many entirely or partially written in vernacular European languages, especially Dutch. The English term primer is usually now reserved for those books written in English. The typical book of hours is an abbreviated form of the breviary which contained the Divine Office recited in monasteries. History[edit] Even this level of decoration was more rich than that of most books, though less than the lavish amounts of illumination in luxury books, which are those most often seen reproduced. The book of hours has its ultimate origin in the Psalter, which monks and nuns were required to recite. Many books of hours were made for women. Decorations[edit] The luxury book of hours[edit] Gallery[edit] Selected examples[edit]

Glasgow Medieval manuscripts Middle English Literature: Medical manuscripts: University of Malaga website. NB. you need to register to use this website, then click on the appropriately numbered volume on the image of the bookshelf. Religious texts: Other manuscripts Papyrus fragments Greek Papyrus Fragments from Oxyrhynchus (University of Glasgow Special Collections website) Early printed books Emblem books Many digitised early printed books (including some examples supplied from the University of Glasgow) are available via Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) - you can access these directly by searching for authors/titles using the library's quicksearch. Other printed material Photographs Images from many of our books may be explored in our virtual exhibitions.

Book of Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary Description This book of hours was written in Paris in the mid-15th century. Books of hours are devotional books for lay persons wishing to have a prayer schedule parallel to that of monastic communities, with prayers appointed for different times of the day. Language Title in Original Language Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae Place Europe > France > Paris Time Period Topic Religion > Christian practice & observance > Devotional literature Additional Subjects Type of Item Manuscripts Physical Description 212 leaves : illustrations ; 12 x 9 x 4.5 centimeters Collection HMML Rare Books Institution Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

Harvard The Houghton Library’s distinguished collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts represents a significant resource for the study of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Western Europe. Assembled through gifts and purchase over the past two centuries, this collection includes works in Latin, Greek, and most of the vernacular languages of Europe that are the primary sources for the study of the literature, art, history, music, philosophy, and theology of the periods. This Web site provides strategies for searching Houghton's medieval manuscripts as well as links to bibliographies related to these materials that were compiled by the Library. Permission to publish from any manuscript is granted at the discretion of the Curator.

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: About Us Education BA in English, University of California, BerkeleyM.Phil and D.Phil, English Language and Literature, 1100-1500 University of Oxford, 2005 Interests I work on Old English, Middle English, Latin, and Anglo-Norman Literature, particularly lesser-known texts sitting at the blurry intersections of historiography, hagiography, and romance. My research focuses on the material and ideological processes of textual composition, transmission, and circulation in medieval England. Paleography, codicology, and philology ground my investigations of translation, redaction, revision, and list-making. Selected Works “The Auchinleck Manuscript,” in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature, ed. “Encountering the Dartmouth Brut in the Midst of History,” in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures 3:2 (2014), 323- 330. “The Archive,” in Medievalism: Key Critical Terms, ed. Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England.