Author: Theodore C. Petersen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781953421043
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library
Author: Theodore C. Petersen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781953421043
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781953421043
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Proceedings
Author:
Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
ISBN: 9780971345928
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Deborah Evetts:"Coptic Bindings at the Morgan Library: Their History and Preservation" Bernard Middleton:"Facsimile Printing for Antiquarian Books" Philip Smith: "Four Levels of Book Art Making" Marianne Tidcombe: "Women Bookbinders in Britain before the First World War" Peter Waters: "The Preservation of Library Materials in the Electronic Age" Mirjam Foot: "Sixteenth Century Influences on English Bookbinding"
Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
ISBN: 9780971345928
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Deborah Evetts:"Coptic Bindings at the Morgan Library: Their History and Preservation" Bernard Middleton:"Facsimile Printing for Antiquarian Books" Philip Smith: "Four Levels of Book Art Making" Marianne Tidcombe: "Women Bookbinders in Britain before the First World War" Peter Waters: "The Preservation of Library Materials in the Electronic Age" Mirjam Foot: "Sixteenth Century Influences on English Bookbinding"
Catalogue of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library
Author: Leo Depuydt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Following the newest procedures of the "archaeology of the book", this catalogue raisonne presents a detailed description of the Coptic holdings of the Pierpont Morgan Library. The first efforts to provide such a catalogue date back to the twenties and thirties of this century. The introduction includes chapters on the modern history of the Coptic manuscripts, their antiquity and provenance, the method employed in this catalogue to describe them, and the history of the ancient monastery of St. Michael near present-day Hamuli, whose library yielded the bulk of the Morgan Coptic collection. In the individual entries, the literary contents of the manuscripts are treated at length and secondary literature, including modern editions and translations, is listed. Extensive concordances facilitate the use of the catalogue.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Following the newest procedures of the "archaeology of the book", this catalogue raisonne presents a detailed description of the Coptic holdings of the Pierpont Morgan Library. The first efforts to provide such a catalogue date back to the twenties and thirties of this century. The introduction includes chapters on the modern history of the Coptic manuscripts, their antiquity and provenance, the method employed in this catalogue to describe them, and the history of the ancient monastery of St. Michael near present-day Hamuli, whose library yielded the bulk of the Morgan Coptic collection. In the individual entries, the literary contents of the manuscripts are treated at length and secondary literature, including modern editions and translations, is listed. Extensive concordances facilitate the use of the catalogue.
A Check List of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library
Author: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coptic language
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coptic language
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A Check List of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library
Author: John Pierpont Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coptic manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coptic manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Pierpont Morgan Library Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts
Author: Pierpont Morgan Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Manuscripts Club
Author: Christopher de Hamel
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525559418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525559418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.
The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding
Author: J.A. Szirmai
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351894730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
In the past, studies of the history of bookbinding were mainly concerned with the exterior decoration. This book focuses attention primarily on the physical aspects of the binding and its construction principles. It is an expanded version of a series of lectures delivered by the author while Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam in 1987, supplemented with the results of ten years of intensive research in major libraries on the Continent, the United Kingdom and the USA. It surveys the evolution of binding structures from the introduction of the codex two thousand years ago to the close of the Middle Ages. Part I reviews the scanty physical evidence from the Mediterranean heritage, the early Coptic, Islamic and Ethiopian binding structures and their interrelation with those of the Byzantine realm. Part II is devoted to a detailed analysis of Western binding techniques, distinguishing the carolingian, romanesque and gothic wooden-board bindings as the main typological entities; their structure and function is compared with those of contemporary limp bindings. The book is illustrated with over 200 drawings and photographs and contains a comprehensive bibliography.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351894730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
In the past, studies of the history of bookbinding were mainly concerned with the exterior decoration. This book focuses attention primarily on the physical aspects of the binding and its construction principles. It is an expanded version of a series of lectures delivered by the author while Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam in 1987, supplemented with the results of ten years of intensive research in major libraries on the Continent, the United Kingdom and the USA. It surveys the evolution of binding structures from the introduction of the codex two thousand years ago to the close of the Middle Ages. Part I reviews the scanty physical evidence from the Mediterranean heritage, the early Coptic, Islamic and Ethiopian binding structures and their interrelation with those of the Byzantine realm. Part II is devoted to a detailed analysis of Western binding techniques, distinguishing the carolingian, romanesque and gothic wooden-board bindings as the main typological entities; their structure and function is compared with those of contemporary limp bindings. The book is illustrated with over 200 drawings and photographs and contains a comprehensive bibliography.
Tied and Bound: a Comparative View on Manuscript Binding
Author: Alessandro Bausi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111292061
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The present volume contains twelve chapters authored by specialists of Asian, African and European manuscript cultures reflecting on the cohesion of written artefacts, particularly manuscripts. Assuming that 'codicological units' exist in every manuscript culture and that they are usually composed of discrete elements (such as clay tablets, papyrus sheets, bamboo slips, parchment bifolios, palm leaves), the issue of the cohesion of the constituents is a general one. The volume presents a series of case studies on devices and strategies adopted to achieve this cohesion by manuscript cultures distant in space (from China to West Africa) and time (from the third millennium bce to the present). This comparative view provides the frame for the understanding of a phenomenon that appears to be of essential importance for the study of the structure of written artefacts. Regardless of the way in which cohesion is realised, all strategies and devices that allow the constituents to be kept together are subsumed under the term 'binding'. Thus, it is possible to highlight similarities, convergences, and unique physical and technical methods adopted by various manuscript cultures to face a common challenge.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111292061
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The present volume contains twelve chapters authored by specialists of Asian, African and European manuscript cultures reflecting on the cohesion of written artefacts, particularly manuscripts. Assuming that 'codicological units' exist in every manuscript culture and that they are usually composed of discrete elements (such as clay tablets, papyrus sheets, bamboo slips, parchment bifolios, palm leaves), the issue of the cohesion of the constituents is a general one. The volume presents a series of case studies on devices and strategies adopted to achieve this cohesion by manuscript cultures distant in space (from China to West Africa) and time (from the third millennium bce to the present). This comparative view provides the frame for the understanding of a phenomenon that appears to be of essential importance for the study of the structure of written artefacts. Regardless of the way in which cohesion is realised, all strategies and devices that allow the constituents to be kept together are subsumed under the term 'binding'. Thus, it is possible to highlight similarities, convergences, and unique physical and technical methods adopted by various manuscript cultures to face a common challenge.
The History of Bookbinding, 525-1950 A.D.
Author: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: Baltimore : The Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher: Baltimore : The Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description