Gift of William Gray, Bishop of Ely (d.1478). Open at ff.50v-51r, showing entries on Medicine. Medieval encyclopedias were attempts to encompass the whole of classical and contemporary thought and learning on all subjects this one, written in Spain in the early part of the 7th century, was one of the most popular western medieval texts. 13th century copy of Etymologies by Isidore of Seville. There is no definite information about how or when this book came to Balliol, but ownership inscriptions seem to indicate it must have been later than the 17th century. Open at ff.3v-4r, showing the Seven Days of Creation, accompanied by magnified prints. Late 13th century Bible, with very fine illuminated and historiated initials throughout, first Italian and later French. They show considerable wear (from their post-liturgical existence) and chemical damage from glues. The leaves had been used as binder’s waste (endleaves etc) for a college account book, and were removed from its binding in 1898. Five leaves of an early 14th century Sarum breviary, with musical notation, written in two columns of 28 lines with large red and blue flourished capitals. The even more tenuous connection with music is the theory that Ovid may have intended the Heroides to be sung! Bequeathed by Richard Prosser, Fellow of the College, 1839. The tenuous connection with medicine is that the grim and tragic stories of the Heroides have been cited as part of the literary tradition of ‘grief as medicine for grief’. A particularly exquisitely written and illuminated 15th century copy of the French translation by Octovien de Saint Gelais, of Ovid’s Heroides. January-February 2017 Handlist of mss on display The language of publication is English.A selection of medieval manuscript codices European, Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew, and Slavic studies are included. It is open to contributions in all fields studying the Middle Ages, a period ranging from approximately 500 to 1500. Speculum was the first scholarly journal in North America devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages. It is a biannual and multilingual publication that essentially deals with codicology, the cultural context and the bibliography relating to European mediaeval manuscripts Scriptorium Scriptorium, and Bulletin Codicologique, the international journal of mediaeval manuscript studies. Manuscript Studies a journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. Fine Books & Collections also publishes FBC Notes, a monthly e-letter about the world of book culture and related fields including map and manuscript collecting, fine presses, and art.įolia Magazine is the magazine of Franco Cosimo Panini Editor dedicated to illuminated manuscripts and old books. Fine Books & Collections is published in print quarterly. While bringing together a diversity of scientific interests, they share the conviction that the history of the book ought to encompass all aspects of this outstanding witness of medieval cultural life, and deserves to be treated as an autonomous discipline.įine Books & Collectors Magazine. Gazette du Libre Médiéval published by a group of medievalists from different countries. Anuario de Estudios Medievales es una revista científica publicada por el CSIC, editada en la Institución Milá y Fontanals de investigación en Humanidades, que publica artículos originales de investigación sobre los más diversos aspectos del Medioevo: historia política, social, económica, cultural, religiosa, de la ciencia, del arte, de la literatura, del pensamiento, de la filosofía, etc.Īrt de l'Enluminure The study and presentation of a famous illuminated manuscript in each issue.
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