Codex Aureus of Echternach

Codex Aureus of Echternach
Ottonian manuscript 1020-1030 ce
Germanisches Nationalmuseum

From Arcadja Artmagazine: Queen Editha's final sanctuary, a lead sarcophagus, on exhibit in Germany

Tomb of Ottonian Queen on display for first time in Madgeburg

The Sisters of Sinai by Janet Soskice

book review from the The Christian Science Monitor

from Art Knowledge News : Medieval Manuscripts at the Getty Center

from Art Knowledge News :

The Medieval Scriptorium, an exhibition for young people opening November 24 and running through February 28, 2010, will bring to life the world of ancient scriptoria and the medieval technology of manuscript production.

Beginning this week,
Out of Bounds,(September 1st to November 8) offers an intimate glimpse into the often irreverent and playful imagery contained in the margins of medieval manuscripts.

Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
(November 17, 2009–April 18 , 2010) collection of early scientific and alchemical manuscripts, maps and diagrams showcasing the exchange of cross cultural ideas and influences occurring in the early modern period.

Getty Center

Gero Codex

Computer may help break code of an ancient script

Voynich Manuscript

ABC Science:Computer helps unravel mystery of ancient texts

University of Glascow Scotland Special Collections Library Digital Exhibitions

Gemini Twins Image from Hunterian Psalter

The University of Glascow's Library's Digital Exhibitions are numerous and wonderful, here are just three examples below (I had posted the Chaucer link previously):

The World of Chaucer

The Hunterian Psalter

Treasures from Two Millenia

The Limbourg Brothers' Hours of Jean de Barry at the MetropolitanMuseum of Art in March 2010

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The lines have it: Bayeux Tapestry revealed anew

Wesleyan Professor assists in bringing new slant to interpreting the art of the Bayeux Tapestry

Three images from the manuscript collection at the University of Liege

University of Liege




Averbode Gospels, ms 363, Nativity (below) 12th century

Psalter of Lambert le Begue, ms 431 , historiated initial with The Raising of Lazurus (above)
13th century









Book of Hours, France, 15th century
St.John on Patmos
(ms Witttert 15
University of Liege)

viaLibri: a resource for Bibliophiles

title page from the Adagia, printed by Aldus Manutius in 1508

above image from:
www.gutenberg.org/files/22900/22900-h/22900-h.htm

viaLibri

Heaven on Earth, a National Gallery of Art exhibition

The National Gallery

The St.Albans Psalter at the University of Aberdeen, U.K.

Three Mary's at the Tomb

image from St. Louis University digital collection



The 12th century psalter contains magnificent examples of English Romanesque painting:

St.Albans project

Here's the link again to the Met's blog on its Pen and Parchment exhibition: http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/

cast- a -wish #1: to see this show before it closes in a couple of weeks.

FromMedievalist.Net: The Psalter and Commentary

http://www.coe.uh.edu/special_projects/manuscripts/docs/07psalter.pdf


http://www.medievalists.net/

Takami Matsuda's Homepage ( European Illustrated Books and Manuscripts 1400-1700)

http://www.flet.keio.ac.jp/~matsuda/

Pages from the Past: Medieval Books in South Carolina Collections

http://www.pagesfromthepast.org/index.html

"A single folio showing an angel presenting the Virgin and Child with a basket of fruit, from a Book of Hours produced in Lyons, ca. 1485-90, and illuminated in the style of the Rosenberg Master".

above image and text taken from:

#98
http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISORESTMP=/cdm4/results.php&CISOVIEWTMP=/cdm4/item_viewer.php&CISOMODE=grid&CISOGRID=thumbnail,A,1;title,A,1;date,A,0;note,200,0;descri,A,0;20;ordern,none,none,none,none&CISOBIB=title,A,1,N;creato,A,0,N;date,200,0,N;none,A,0,N;none,A,0,N;20;title,none,none,none,none&CISOTHUMB=20%20(4x5);title,none,none,none,none&CISOTITLE=20;title,none,none,none,none&CISOHIERA=20;creato,title,none,none,none&CISOSUPPRESS=0&CISOTYPE=browse&CISOROOT=%2Fpfp&CISOSTART=1,81

Illuminated Manuscripts USF Special Collections with Leslie Stone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldVk6ZhFmhQ&feature=related

Illuminations:Treasures of the Middle Ages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17pzabDOxVs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1TMpzDf7b4&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQ8Um221Eo&feature=related



(production of medieval manuscripts)







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UULALD_xto




(medieval manuscripts nice music accompaniment)





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymbfAhc-Kzs&feature=related




(codex gigas not in English but you can see size of book)

From the National Library of Sweden: The Codex Gigas

http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/eng/

Spanish Illuminations at the Morgan and facsimile links

Good article in the NY Sun (from a couple of years ago), about an exhibit at the Morgan Library called Apocalypse Then featuring the Morgan's famous book of Spanish illuminated manuscripts, The Morgan Beatus:
http://www.nysun.com/arts/joy-of-fire-brimstone/51903/

A commercial site, OMI, selling facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts and books:
http://www.omifacsimiles.com/index.html

A portal to other sites offering facsimile editions:

http://www.umilta.net/facsimiles.html

Pages of Gold: Medieval Illuminations at the Morgan, ends September 13 th

leaf from the Winchester Bible, Morgan Library

http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=20

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19medieval.html?_r=1

Medieval Margins at the Getty

In September, an exhibit entitled Out of Bounds, at the J. Paul Getty Museum , will focus on images in the margins of medieval manuscripts. ( image on right, from Macclesfield Psalter, taken from GotMedieval blog http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/)

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32485

http://www.getty.edu/visit/exhibitions/future.html

Pen and Parchment exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ends August 23

just one more : Virgin and Child From Notker’s Old German Psalter

Einsiedeln, 12th century
12 3/16 x 9 7/16 in. (31 x 24 cm)Stiftsbibliothek, Saint Gall Cod. 21

Opening to the Gospel of John and the Punishment of AriusFrom the Bible of Stephen HardingCîteaux, France; 1109Bibliothèque Municipale, Dijon, MS 15



Matthew Paris (ca. 1200–1259). The Virgin and Christ Child; Christ Crucified; Christ in Majesty. From Chronica Majora, vol. 1. Saint Albans, England, ca. 1240–53. Corpus Christi College Library, Cambridge, MS 26.

above images and captions taken from:

http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/

8/2/2009