A Manuscript Fragment Preserved Intact
NEWS: A Manuscript Fragment Preserved Intact, by David A. Jordan. At the 13 November 2014 Bloomsbury London auction, antiquarian bookseller Christopher Edwards represented the Stanford University...
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I libri della Biblioteca Capitolare di Padova
NEWS – Presentazione, presso il Museo Diocesano di Padova (Via Dietro Duomo 9) giovedì 7 maggio 2015 ore 16.30, dei volumi: ** I manoscritti miniati della Biblioteca Capitolare di Padova, a cura di...
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A Fourth Leo X Cutting
NEWS: A Fourth Leo X Cutting, by Peter Kidd (here). From Maggs, European Miniatures and Illumination, Bulletin No.6 (London, n.d. [between 1966 and 1971]), no.44. View also the previous posts: The...
View ArticleLa Biblioteca Vaticana nel Seicento (1590-1700)
NEWS: Presentazione del volume Storia della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. vol. III. La Vaticana nel Seicento (1590-1700): una biblioteca di biblioteche, a cura di Claudia Montuschi, Città del...
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A New Home for the Bodleian Library
NEWS: The Bodleian Library’s Special Collections have moved to the Westen Library. One of the great libraries of the world, the Bodleian is a working library which forms part of the University of...
View Article“Scriptorium” Goes Online
NEWS: Good news from Anne-Véronique Raynal: “Scriptorium” goes online. At the moment, the issues for years 1946-1956. The next step should be the online publication of the following issues up to 1978,...
View ArticleScritti in onore di Maria Andaloro
NEWS: L’officina dello sguardo. Scritti in onore di Maria Andaloro, a cura di Giulia Bordi, Iole Carlettini, Maria Luigia Fobelli, Maria Raffaella Menna e Paola Pogliani, 2 voll., Roma 2014 (Gangemi...
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È scomparso Luciano Gargan
NEWS: È scomparso Luciano Gargan. Luciano Gargan ha compiuto i propri studi all’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano alla scuola di Giuseppe Billanovich, laureandosi in Lettere moderne l’11...
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Benozzo Gozzoli restaurato
NEWS – Presentazione del restauro: La Madonna della cintola di San Fortunato, Benozzo e Montefalco, Musei Vaticani, Sala conferenze, giovedì 18 giugno 2015, ore 11.30. Intervengono Antonio Paolucci...
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Now Digitised the Paduan Bible Picture Book
NEWS: Now Digitised the Paduan Bible Picture Book, BL Add. MS 15277. One of the newest additions to the British Library website of Digitised Manuscripts is Additional MS 15277. This Italian manuscript...
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Summer Visit to Eton College Library
NEWS: Summer Visit for 2015 to Eton College Library, Windsor, on Tuesday, 7 July 2015, beginning at 2.00pm. Rachel Bond, Librarian, will host the Bibliographical Society for an introduction to the...
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Lindisfarne Gospels Restoration Project
NEWS: Lindisfarne Gospels Restoration Project, by Stewart J. Brookes. The Lindisfarne Gospels (British Library, MS Cotton Nero D.iv) with its playful half-uncial script, splendid carpet pages, and...
View ArticleCollaborations Between Oxford and Venice
NEWS: Collaborations Between Oxford Humanities and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice. A new series of collaborations between Oxford Humanities and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice), generously...
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Another BL ‘Apocalypse’ Manuscript Digitised
NEWS: Another ‘Apocalypse’ Manuscript Digitised from the British Library (BL. Add. MS 35166). The British Library has a great collection of Apocalypse manuscripts and we have featured them in a number...
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Influential Illumination: BL Loans to Lens
ARTICLE: Influential Illumination: British Library Loans to Lens, by Hannah Morcos. Three of the British Library’s medieval manuscripts are currently on loan to an exhibition at Louvre-Lens. D’Or et...
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Nominati i direttori dei 20 musei superstar
NEWS: Nominati i direttori dei 20 musei superstar. Il cambio che farà forse più clamore arriva per gli Uffizi, dove lo storico direttore Antonio Natali deve cedere il passo ad un esperto di arte...
View ArticleOpen Day at the Society of Antiquaries
NEWS: Postgraduate Open Day at The Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, 9 October 2015, from 11.00 to 16.00. The Society of Antiquaries of London has the largest...
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Handlist of Greek MSS in the British Library
NEWS: Handlist of Greek Manuscripts in the British Library, by Cillian O’Hogan. The completion of the third phase of the Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project (here) is as good a time as any to...
View ArticleStanford scholar discovers Magna Carta scribe
NEWS: Stanford scholar discovers previously unknown Magna Carta scribe, by Angela Becerra Videgar (The Humanities at Stanford). Using handwriting analysis, Stanford manuscript expert Elaine Treharne...
View Article‘Oldest’ Koran fragments found in Birmingham
NEWS: ‘Oldest’ Koran fragments found in Birmingham, by Sean Coughlan. What may be the world’s oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the...
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