A Visit from Timbuktu
NEWS: Guardian of the Manuscripts from Timbuktu visited CSMC. Dr. Abdel Kader Haїdara visited CSMC on 7-8 October 2014 to discuss further measures for safeguarding the famous Manuscripts from Timbuktu....
View ArticleCSMC Awarded a € Million for Timbuktu
NEWS: CSMC Awarded a Million Euros for Timbuktu Project. Having successfully completed a 12-month pilot phase, CSMC’s project entitled ‘Safeguarding the Manuscripts from Timbuktu’ is to be funded for...
View ArticleLinking Evidence: A Website about Rome
NEWS: Linking Evidnce. A Digital Approach to Medieval and Early Renaissance Rome, c. 1140-1430, The British Schhol of Rome (Lecture Theatre), Via Gramsci 61, Rome, Monday, 24 November 2014, at 17.00....
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Another Leo X Cutting
NEWS: Another Leo X Cutting, by Peter Kidd. The Morgan Library in New York has a Preparatio ad Missam manuscript closely related to the newly-identified cuttings from a Missal of Pope Leo X that were...
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Plus de 1400 donateurs pour les Douze Césars !
NEWS: Plus de 1400 donateurs pour l’acquisition du manuscrit de François Ier ! La BnF a lancé il y a 8 semaines un appel au don pour l’acquisition d’un Trésor national – la Description des Douze...
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I colori del bianco e nero alla Fondazione Zeri
BOOK: I colori del bianco e nero. Fotografie storiche nella Fototeca Zeri 1870-1920, a cura di Andrea Bacchi, Francesca Mambelli, Marcello Rossini ed Elisabetta Sambo, Bologna 2014 (Fondazione...
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New Images on the BL Online Catalogue
NEWS: New Images on the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts of the British Library. Exciting news for those of the BL Blog readers who might want to search for an image of a 13th-century devil with...
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Save the Biblioteca Laurenziana
NEWS: Save the Biblioteca Laurenziana! by Dr. Giovanna Murano. Dear All, As many of you already know, the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana of Florence is going to lose its status as well as its Director...
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The Revolution in Writing Styles
NEWS: The Revolution in Writing Styles during the Renaissance. Just as we have our faces, we each should have own writing style – this was the lesson that two leading Renaissance thinkers, Erasmus and...
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The Vassar Leo X Cuttings, Part II
NEWS: The Vassar Leo X Cuttings, Part II, by Peter Kidd. In a previous post I mentioned that the the newly-recognised cuttings from a Missal of Pope Leo X have a “companion” in New York. At the Morgan...
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Les Heures et la piété des bourgeois de Paris
NEWS: Des Heures: témoins de la piété (ou de la richesse?) des bourgeois de Paris à la Renaissance, par Jean Luc Deuffic. L’ouvrage d’Ernest Coyecque (1) nous a fourni quelques inventaires après-décès...
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The Vassar Leo X Cuttings, Part III
NEWS: The Vassar Leo X Cuttings (Part III): The Parent Volume, by Peter Kidd. Having demonstrated in a previous post that the Vassar (and related) cuttings come from a manuscript closely related to...
View ArticleBiblioteca Marciana: Archivio dei possessori
WEBSITE: Alla Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana è ora online l’Archivio dei possessori dei libri. L’Archivio dei possessori è un progetto di censimento, rilevazione e documentazione fotografica dei dati...
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The Russell Library at Maynooth University
NEWS: The Russell Library at Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. The Russell Library houses the historical collections of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth which was founded in 1795 as a...
View ArticleBSB München: Research Documentation
NEWS - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München: Research documentation of the collections of the Department of Manuscripts going back to the 19th century. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München has been...
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Medieval Handwriting App
NEWS: Medieval Handwriting App. If you want to study medieval scripts, handwriting, and manuscripts or simply want to get acquainted with some of the finest medieval codices here is an app to get you...
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Le miniature delle ‘Decretali’ di Gregorio IX
NEWS: Presentazione della pubblicazione digitale Decretales Pictae. Le miniature nei manoscritti delle Decretali di Gregorio IX, a cura di Martin Bertram e Silvia Di Paolo. Indici compilati da Marta...
View ArticleLes projets “Biblissima”
NEWS: Le Centre Jean-Mabillion présente ses projets “Biblissima”, École nationale de Chartes, 65, rue de Richelieu, Paris 2e (salle Léopold-Delisle), vendredi 23 janvier 2015, à 16 h. Le centre...
View ArticleEnglish Book Owners in the 17th Century
BOOK: English Book Owners in the Seventeenth Century (Electronic Publication, 2007-2015). David Pearson offers this list as work in progress to construct a reference source on seventeenth-century...
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The Making and Knowing Project
NEWS: The Making and Knowing Project. Recunstructing the Sixteenth-Century Workshop of BnF Ms. Fr. 640 at Columbia University. The project is led by Seth Low Professor of History Pamela Smith...
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