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People have been coming up with clever ways to bring light to the darkness since we lived in caves, so it’s no surprise we ...
‘It belongs with the books of Kells and Durrow.’ Illuminated manuscripts back in Ireland for the first time in more than 1,000 years ...
TSA: Was there a particular historical period of illuminated manuscripts that you chose as the aesthetic for your game? Or is it a mish mash of several different periods?
Dr Paola Ricciardi is a research associate in the Department of Manuscripts and Printed Books at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Her work is part of the MINIARE project, focusing on Manuscript ...
A rare 13th-century manuscript fragment containing medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur has been 'virtually unrolled' after 700 years.
Today, there are 35 historical illuminated Esther scrolls cataloged at NLI, over 3,000 online in the library’s Ktiv International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts project, and it is ...
With its sumptuous painted miniatures in tempera and ink, gold and silver, the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is the most treasured illuminated manuscript of the collections of Château de ...
Related: What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver.
The main question about almost every medieval Hebrew illuminated manuscript is related to the authorship of its artwork. Oppenheimer Siddur (Oxford Bodleian Library MS Opp. 776) is a richly ...
A full non-invasive analysis of the maritime South East Asian illuminated manuscripts at the British Library to develop AI algorithms to process the data.
QNL, QEERI launch project to develop global solution for protecting Islamic manuscripts Published: 29 Feb 2024 - 09:40 am | Last Updated: 29 Feb 2024 - 09:41 am ...
The unstable iron-gall ink represents one of the primary factors behind the chemical process responsible for the degradation of heritage documents, impacting a quarter of all Islamic manuscripts ...