Medieval manuscripts online
Wednesday September 24, 2008
The John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester will digitize part of its collection of medieval manuscripts, thanks to £85,000 in funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee. Manuscripts include the complete Canterbury Tales, copies of the New Testament translated into English by John Wyclif, and a cookbook written by the personal chefs of Richard II. The article by Jack Riley at the Independent includes a selection of images, and there's additional info in the item by Claire Shoesmith at Crain's Manchester Business. There's also a piece on the recipes at Sify news.
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Being a retired Calligrapher, I enjoyed viewing
the samples, that were presented. Some of the
views, are presented in a few my collection of
Books on Manuscripts, such as: The Book of Kells, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, The Master of Mary of Burgundy, Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, etc. Ah yes, I could go on-and-on, about what the Scribes-of-old had to do; with what they had available to them, at that day and time. Here
is a little tidbit, that few people know, that
relates to the Ancient times. The names of (2)
colors of paint, that we call…Sienna and
Umber refer to the two locations in Italy,
where the scribes had to go, to get the Basic
ingredients, for their hand-made paints of brown. Those two locations are called Sienna
and Umbria, Italy. In closing, I do thank you,
for providing this space for me; to place my
comments. Cheers!