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It's that time of year when we update the list of manuscripts published on the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts website. Since spring, more than 30 medieval and early modern manuscripts have been added to our site, and you can find the full listing here: British Library Ancient, Medieval and Early...
Wood engraving reproduction of a hand-drawn capital P showing interlace patterns as well as foliated and geometric ornaments
Tim is a trained and professional calligrapher and carries out a wide variety of lettering, both commissioned and personal work, traditional and contemporary in style. Examples of his work are in the Royal Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Click on a square to enlarge the […]
This illuminated manuscript is volume 3 of a work on the duties of Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammad known as al-Shifāʾ by ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī (d. 544 AH / 1149 CE). It was copied in the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE in the Maghreb. The text is written in Maghribīi script in black ink with certain words highlighted in red and blue. The manuscript opens with an illuminated titlepiece indicating that it is volume 3 of al-Shifāʾ (fol. 2a), which is followed by a double-page frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a) and a page with another illuminated titlepiece (fol. 3b). It concludes with an illuminated explicit with tailpiece inscribed with the prayer for the Prophet Muhammad (fol. 140a). The binding is reddish-brown goatskin with a gold-tooled frame and a central medallion of geometric design with two pendants. This illuminated page begins with al-sifr al-thālith min Kitāb al-Shifā, written in a large Maghribi script in gold ink, indicating that it is the third volume of Kitāb al-Shifā by ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī. The inscription above the main framed area states that it is the third volume of the book of al-Shifā in the hadith. To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
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Unless one collects medieval manuscripts, or perhaps the rare fine press book, it's unlikely that one will ever encounter that glory of the illuminator's art, the carpet page: The image above, from the famed Lindisfarne Gospels (late 7th or early 8th century CE), sports all the features generally attributed to this form of illumination, as a surprisingly illuminating Wikipedia article points out: [c]arpet pages are wholly devoted to ornamentation with brilliant colors, active lines, and complex patterns of interlace. They are normally [but not always] symmetrical, or very nearly so, about both a horizontal and vertical axis.... Some art historians find their origin in Coptic decorative book pages, ... and they also clearly borrow from contemporary metalwork decoration. Oriental carpets, or other textiles, may [also] have been influences.... The Islamic example below, via the Chester Beatty Library, is from an...
Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts are those manuscripts made in Ireland and Great Britain from about 500 CE to about 900 CE in England, but later in Ireland and elsewhe...
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This illuminated manuscript is volume 3 of a work on the duties of Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammad known as al-Shifāʾ by ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī (d. 544 AH / 1149 CE). It was copied in the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE in the Maghreb. The text is written in Maghribīi script in black ink with certain words highlighted in red and blue. The manuscript opens with an illuminated titlepiece indicating that it is volume 3 of al-Shifāʾ (fol. 2a), which is followed by a double-page frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a) and a page with another illuminated titlepiece (fol. 3b). It concludes with an illuminated explicit with tailpiece inscribed with the prayer for the Prophet Muhammad (fol. 140a). The binding is reddish-brown goatskin with a gold-tooled frame and a central medallion of geometric design with two pendants. This illuminated incipit page includes a titlepiece framed by gold trefoils and vertical bars of gold strapwork, with a marginal rosette at the right. To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
Bernard Meehan delves into the rich ornamentation and explores dense symbolism of the Book of Kells in a selection of pages from the manuscript
The British Library is putting its treasury of medieval manuscripts online, starting with the most famous. To celebrate, here are some pages and details from the Lindisfarne Gospels. This masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon art was begun, our sources say, in 698 by Eadfrith, bishop of Lindisfarne (d. 721?). The text has Old English glosses added by Aldred, provost of Chester-le-Street (fl. c. 970). The decoration was done sometime in between by more than one person, possibly over a period of decades.
BEATUS VIR blessed is the one confidently drawn single white vine splits to form lettershape, beast-chew cuffs merge splits & produce tight spiral-budded tendrils w overlaps crossovers & weaves. Psalter & Canticles with gloss England c12th BL Add 18298 f2v https://t.co/Pljt0otKnS
Calligrapher: Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri (d. 1320–21). Illuminator: Muhammad ibn Aibak ibn 'Abdallah. Title: Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of...
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The British Library is delighted to have loaned three manuscripts to an major exhibition in Mannheim at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen. This exhibition, The Wittelsbachs on the Rhine: The Electoral Palatinate and Europe, will run from 8 September 2013 until 2 March 2014. The exhibition corresponds to an important period of history,...
After learning about illuminated manuscripts for weeks, I took a stab at making my own for class: These are some of the images (aside from the Book of Kells) that I looked at for inspiration:
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72 p., 8 leaves of plates : 19 cm
