Library of the Written Word - The Manuscript World – serie
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Trans-Saharan Book Trade
Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa
Inbunden, 2010
2600 kr
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As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and …
Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible
Av Eyal Poleg
Inbunden, 2013
2778 kr
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Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Latin Bibles survive in hundreds of manuscripts, one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. Their innovative layout and organization established the norm for Bibles for centuries to come. This volume is the first study of these Bibles as a cohesive group. …
Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a "Vows of the Peacock" Manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24)
With a Complete Concordance and Catalogue of Peacock Manuscripts
Av Domenic Leo
Inbunden, 2013
3143 kr
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The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of aristocrats threatened by Indians. The poem remained popular throughout the fourteenth century and was soon followed by two sequels. …
Divine Diagrams
The Manuscripts and Drawings of Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558)
Inbunden, 2014
4443 kr
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After the Reformation the successful painter Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558) dedicated himself to spreading revelations on the nature of God. Lautensack was besides Dürer the only German artist who wrote against the iconoclasts, and he believed that he as a painter could explain the images of …
Marvel and Artefact
The 'Wonders of the East' in its manuscript contexts
Av A. J. Ford
Inbunden, 2015
2911 kr
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Marvel and Artefact examines the three surviving manuscripts of Wonders of the East (London, BL, Cotton Vitellius A. xv; London, BL, Cotton Tiberius B. v; and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 614). After outlining the learned tradition of writing on monsters and marvels and the family of texts of …
