Since it’s finally starting to act like spring (56 degrees yesterday!), I went into the city with M. as part of the “rediscovering a life outside of library school” series. Both having student IDs, we took advantage of the Village East Cinema’s $7 student Tuesday deal and saw The Secret of Kells, an animated movie [...]
Posts Tagged ‘illumination’
Artichoke and Kells
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged culinary adventures, illumination, manuscripts, New York, recommendations, travel on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Macabre Manuscripts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged illumination, manuscripts, pictures on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my projects this summer was to examine some “hybrid books” (a printed book with some manuscript – handwritten – sections) and describe the manuscript portions. Most/all of these can’t even be found in any kind of online catalog, only in the card catalog in the Rare Book room, and even they will only [...]
Illumination
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged curiosities, illumination, manuscripts on June 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After only 3 weeks, I finally encounter my first illuminated manuscript (I’ve seen them before, but I’d yet to catalog one). I dearly wish I could take pictures of this, simply to show the elaborate initials with gold and lead decorating. This manuscript is called Repertorium juris canonici secundum ordinem alphabeticum by Petrus de Braco. [...]
