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The Moutier-Grandval Bible is Now Online
NEWS: A Carolingian Masterpiece: The Moutier-Grandval Bible (London, The British Library, Add. MS 10546). On Christmas Day of the year 800, Charlemagne, King of the Franks, was crowned Europe’s first...
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The Athelstan Psalter, King Athelstan’s Book
NEWS: The Athelstan Psalter (London, British Library, MS Cotton Galba A XVIII). The entire Psalter is available to view on our Digitised Manuscripts site. The Athelstan Psalter is a curious little...
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Art is Everywhere in the UK. And in Italy?
EXHIBITION: Art Everywhere. A vary big art show. Over 22,000 poster sites featured 57 British masterpieces to create a massive outdoor exhibition of the nation’s favourite works of art. Showcasing...
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Credo: British Library MSS in Paderborn
NEWS: Credo: British Library Manuscripts in Paderborn. The British Library has loaned three manuscripts to the exhibition Credo, which opened in Paderborn on 26 July 2013. The exhibition explores the...
View ArticleProrogata la mostra Illuminare l’Abruzzo
NEWS: Prorogata fino al 13 ottobre la mostra Illuminare l’Abruzzo. Codici miniati tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, Chieti, Fondazione Carichieti – Museo Palazzo de’ Mayo (Largo Martiri della Libertà),...
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An Elephant in the Bindings
NEWS: An Elephant in the Bindings: A Rare Appearance? by Laura Nuvoloni. This small but intriguing tool is found on the beautiful early Renaissance bindings of four of an incunabula in Cambridge...
View ArticleEuropa Humanistica
NEWS: Europa Humanistica. Un réseau international pour l’étude de l’Humanisme et de la Renaissance. Europa Humanistica est d’abord un réseau scientifique, associant des équipes de chercheurs en Europe...
View ArticleThe Tombouctou Manuscripts are Save
NEWS: The Tombouctou Manuscripts Project at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Timbuktu has often been invoked as a symbol of the most distant place on Earth, as a mysterious and exotic, but...
View ArticleEarly Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL)
NEWS: Aracadia Grant Awarded: $85,000. Grantee Website: Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (emelibrary.org). The Early Manuscripts Electrinic Library (EMEL) is a research organisation based in San...
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Le Livre d’heures de Jeanne de France
NEWS: Le Livre d’heures de Jeane de France est en ligne. Un manuscrit royal sans équivalent dans les collections publiques françaises. Il y a quelques mois, la BnF a acquis le Livre d’heures de Jeanne...
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Sabellicus’s Decades rerum Venetarum
NEWS: A distinguished visitor. The Incunabula Cataloguing Project Team was delighted to welcome the renowned illustrator and author Sir Quentin Blake, accompanied by art education consultant Ghislaine...
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A Newly Discovered Leaf Written by Sanvito
NEWS: A Newly Discovered Leaf Written by Sanvito, by Peter Kidd. Much has been written about Otto Ege in the past two decades: see, for example, the articles by Barbara Shailor, Otto Ege: His...
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The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies
NEWS: The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library. The Center for Renaissance Studies promotes the use of the Newberry collection by graduate students and postgraduate scholars in the...
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An Imperial Psalter
NEWS; An Imperial Psalter, British library, Add MS 37768. One of latest uploads to the British Library Digitised Manuscripts website is this exquisite copy of the Psalms which dates from the middle of...
View ArticleStudi in onore di Francis Haskell (2014)
CALL FOR PAPERS: Studi in onore di Francis Haskell, in “Studi di Memofonte” (2014). La Fondazione Memofonte intende rendere omaggio alla figura di Francis Haskell dedicandogli il n. 12 della rivista...
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Luttrell Psalter’s Marginal Images
NEWS: Marginali-yeah: Take 2! The Incomparable Luttrell Psalter. It is almost impossible to discuss the fabulous and incomparable Luttrell Psalter (Add MS 42130) without resorting to hyperbole....
View ArticleNew Research at the MMAA
NEWS: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives (MMAA) announces the availability for research of the Joseph Breck records and the Bachstitz, Inc. records. Joseph Breck (1885–1933) served The...
View ArticleTurning over a New Leaf (Leiden)
NEWS: Turning Over A New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, Instutute for Cultural Disciplines. Period: 1 May 2010 – 1 May 2015....
View ArticleSosteniamo la Biblioteca Universitaria di Pisa
NEWS: Sosteniamo la Biblioteca Universitaria di Pisa (BUP), Via Curtatone e Montanara 15, tel. 050926569, e-mail: bu-pi@beniculturali.it. L’Associazione Amici della Biblioteca Universitaria di Pisa,...
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The Triumphs of Charles V
NEWS: An Old World View of the New: The Triumphs of Charles V (British Library, Add. MS 33733), by Sarah J Biggs. It is not often that the medieval manuscript curators of the Britsh Library have the...
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