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The Well-laden Ship
  • Language: en

The Well-laden Ship

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Well-Laden Ship is an eleventh-century Latin poem composed of ancient and medieval proverbs, fables, and folktales. It was one of the few surviving works from the Middle Ages written explicitly for schoolroom use. Most of the content derives from the Bible, especially the wisdom books, from the Church Fathers, and from the ancient poets.

The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1075

The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography

Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious heritage of the West. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography surveys these books, with special emphasis on the variety of scripts in which they were written. Palaeography, in the strictest sense, examines how the changing styles of script and the fluctuating shapes of individual letters allow the date and the place of production of books to be determined. More broadly conceived, palaeography examines the totality of early book production, own...

Old Books, New Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Old Books, New Learning

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The Psychomachia Codex from St Lawrence (Bruxellensis 10066-77) and the Schools of Liège in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
  • Language: en

The Psychomachia Codex from St Lawrence (Bruxellensis 10066-77) and the Schools of Liège in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries

This monograph focuses on Brussels, Royal Library, MS 10066-77, a tenth-century volume comprised of illustrated copies of Prudentius' Psychomachia and the bestiary known as the Physiologus, to which tenth- and eleventh-century readers added a dozen short school texts. Largely for its illustrations, the manuscript has been considered a monument of Ottonian illumination and one of the principal treasures of the Royal Library in Brussels. The allure of its illustrated texts resulted in inadequate attention to the minor additions to the volume. This study reveals that these have a coherent origin (in Liege) and purpose (the study and teaching of allegory); and that they provide detailed evidence...

Reconstructing a Medieval Library
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124
The Beinecke Library of Yale University
  • Language: en

The Beinecke Library of Yale University

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-11
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University celebrates its fortieth anniversary with an exhibition and with this book that is itself a celebration of a great architectural monument of modernism photographed by Richard Cheek. This striking building contains a stunning collection of collections, examples from which were photographed by Stan Godlewski, and this celebratory volume also contains a portfolio of photographs taken at the time of the dedication forty years ago by Ezra Stoller and a handful of historic photographs from collections here. The text has a number of essays that together capture the many resourses that constitute this library distinguished throughout th...

The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence’s Comedies (800–1200)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence’s Comedies (800–1200)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-08-30
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This is a book about Roman comedy, ancient theatre imagery, and seven medieval illustrated manuscripts of Terence’s six Latin comedies. These manuscript illustrations, made between 800 and 1200, enabled their medieval readers to view these comedies as “mirrors of life”.

A Book of Her Own
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 78