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DVD31. Book of Kells DVD-ROM
The Book of Kells DVD-ROM.
Contains all 340 folios or 680 pages of the Book of Kells manuscript. A zoom feature allows you to examine fourteen richly illuminated pages in detail. In addition, a wealth of information is presented including: the Book's history, the scribes who created it, the materials used, the design systems of the day, the themes of the Book, details of animals, angels,monks and illuminated capital letters. Developed with the Library of Trinity College Dublin. The only authorized digital version of the Book of Kells.
B2954. Beasts: Factual and Fantastic
Beasts: Factual and Fantastic
By Elizabeth Morrison. 2007. 112pp. 7"x9". Hardcover
A wonderful book full of sharply printed large details from manuscripts in the Getty collection. The animals are from a variety of medieval & Renaissance manuscripts and are both painted and pen drawn forms. The animals are always shown as part of the page of the manuscript, usually as a detail, sometimes as part of an illuminated initial, sometimes as part of the whole page. The text provides a brief background on the animal and the manuscript.
B2953. Celtic & Anglo Saxon Art
Celtic & Anglo Saxon Art & Ornament in Color
By J. O.Westwood. 2007 64pp. 8.25"x11". Paper
This reproduction of a 19th century book of miniatures and ornaments provides a wealth of examples of knotwork, initials, animals, and human figures. This series of books are particularly easy to use as models. They have been redrawn rather than photographically reproduced and the color palette while still rich, has been distilled to fewer colors.
B2955. French Illuminated Manuscripts in the Getty Museum
French Illuminated Manuscripts in the J Paul
Getty Museum
By Thomas Kern. 2007. 96pp. 6-5/8"x9-3/8". Paper.
An introduction followed by 80 large, full color illustrations.You get a nice large detail of some pages. Includes a ninth century Bible, 11th century sacramentary, 13th century Bible and psalters, 15th century book of hours and a book of prayers of the mass circa 1720.Many of the illustrations are of the full manuscript page,most all show some of the text.
B2956. Ornamental Letters
Ornamental Letters
By Catherine Auguste. 2007. 107pp. 8.5x8.5. Paper $19.95.
JNB Price $18.95
Step-by-step instructions on creating illuminated letters in a variety of styles. Explores different themes: flowers, leaves and branches, animals and fabulous creatures. For each she shows some variations in layout and colors so you can create your own illuminated letters or copy the models.
B2968. Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII
A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII
By Thomas Kren, Mark Evans, Janet Backhouse, and Nancy Turner. 2005 112pp. 7.5"x10-7/8". Paper.
By the 17th century this stunning prayer book (ca 1498) illuminated by court painter Jean Bourdichon had been dismembered. This catalog published the rediscovered leaves together for the first time along with four essays on the book and its miniatures, their historical context, Bourdichon's technique as painter/illuminator, and the individual histories of the surviving leaves. 77 color, 10b&W illustrations.
B2983. Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the Getty Museum
Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Thomas Kren and Kurt Barstow. 2005. 96pp. 6-5/8"x93/8". Paper
Full color reproductions of selections from the museum's rich holdings of Italian manuscript illumination from the ninth to the 16th centuries. 80 color illustrations. Thomas Kren and Kurt Barstow are curator of manuscripts and former associate curator of manuscripts, respectively, at the Getty Museum.
B3073. Politics and Script / Morison
B3073. Politics and Script: Aspects of Authority and Freedom in the Development of Graeco-Latin Script from the Sixth Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century by Stanley, Morison, Nicolas Barker. (1972). 2000 reprint. 396pp. 11" x 7.5". Hardcover. Limited stock.
This series of lectures on the development of hands provides a cultural context. Sheila Waters finds it fascinating and notes that, though it is a scholarly work, the book is written in a pleasant style. Unlike many newer books, this one is so full of information that you may find yourself re-reading page to take it all in. Out-of-print. These copies may have some shelf wear/bent corners.
B3102. Fraktur: Tips, Tools, and Techniques/ Hartung
B3102. Fraktur: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft by Ruthanne Hartung. 2008. 103pp. 9"x11.25". Hardcover, hidden spiral.
A Fraktur is a document created by the early Pennsylvania German settlers to record and celebrate weddings, baptisms, house blessings, and the like. This instructional book for beginners covers the basics of painting, calligraphy, and layout for Fraktur. You learn through two projects, a small Fraktur and a house blessing. To help as you make your own Fraktur, patterns for the traditional elements - birds, houses, flowers and borders - a birth certificate and three family trees - are provided. Includes examples of traditional Fraktur and the author's work.
B3139. Writing the Word of God / Roxburgh
Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur'an by David J. Roxburgh. 2008. 64pp. 8.5x11". Paper.
The art of Islamic calligraphy developed from the 7th to the 14th century, beginning in western Arabia, spreading south to Yemen and north to the Near East, and continuing east and west to Iran, Egypt, North Africa, and Spain. In this book, through early manuscripts of the Qur'an, the breadth and beauty of Islamic calligraphy across centuries and continents is shown. Roxburgh discusses the Qur’an, the Kufic script used in writing early manuscripts of the Qur’an; reforms of calligraphy in the 10th century; and the great master Islamic calligraphers, in particular Yaqut al-Musta‘simi. 31 full color illustrations
