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