https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=42&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Displayed+as+.jpg&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CCreator&page=2&sort_dir=d&output=atom2024-03-28T17:09:45-04:00Omekahttps://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1844The Lectionary provides the scriptural readings for the liturgy on specific days during the church year. These leaves from an otherwise lost Greek lectionary include the readings for Easter Week, taken primarily from the Gospel of Matthew, and the Twelve Stations of the Cross. The Byzantine script is a fine rounded example from the twelfth century, with small, square-shaped breathing marks, intonation markings in magenta, and fine gilded initials and rubrics.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
BRMS 12. [Liturgical Lectionary of the Greek Gospels]. [Byzantium, 12th century]. Illuminated manuscript fragment on vellum. From the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1843Example of "Paris Vulgate" tradition, single-volume with books in canonical sequence. As was typical of the Paris Vulgate tradition, the only spaces allotted for illustrations were the interiors of the initials, which received either a portrayal of the author of the biblical book or a concise depiction of the book's central narrative.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1841This volume, written in old Dutch on paper, comprises short passages of the Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) followed by allegorical explications from the writings of St. Paul, St. Gregory the Great, St. Bonaventure, and Gilbert of Hoyland. The manuscript begins with a red and blue initial with a decorative border on the first page, and is written in a gothic batarde script with brown ink and highlighted with red initials throughout.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
BRMS 20. [Bible. Song of Songs]. Dat ander stuc van den exposicien op Canticum Canticorum. [Low Countries (Netherlands?), late 15th century]. Illuminated manuscript on paper. From the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1840Illuminated manuscript with psalms to be recited over the course of a week. There are large gilt initials and an illuminated portrait of King David.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1839This Torah, written in unpointed Hebrew on a scroll of sixty-eight parchment skins measuring ninety-six feet in length, was number twelve (yod-bet) of the thirteen scrolls originally held by the synagogue established in 1653 in Kaifeng, China. ]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
BRMS 59. [Chinese Torah Scroll, in Hebrew]. [Kaifeng, China, mid-17th century]. Manuscript on vellum comprising 68 skins, each skin 59 cm in height with 49 lines of text per column. From the Thomas J. Harrison Bible Collection
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1838Written in the ancient Armenian (grapar) language in the traditional 'notrgir' script, the manuscript also includes colorful bird-shaped capitals (t'rchnagir) that spell out the opening words of each Gospel.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1837This manuscript in ancient liturgical Ge'ez provides the text of the Psalms and other selections from the Old Testament. Illustrations in black ink on endleaves: lion?, human faces and figures. Decorative borders in red and black.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1836Hebrew scrolls of the Megillah of Esther are notoriously difficult to date and localize, given the longstanding traditions behind their production. Written on the skin of a kosher animal, the text comprises the ten chapters of the Book of Esther, including the story of Purim. Following tradition, in this copy the scribe has set off the names of the ten defeated sons of Haman in enlarged letters.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1835Each of the 388 leaves feature Arabic calligraphy and unique decorative patters made with lapis lazuli, burnished gold leaf, and other bright pigments. Similarly, each of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran is separated by a gilded decorative panel.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1834Richly illuminated with gold, lapis lazuli, arsenic orange, and verdigris green on highly polished paper, this Quran was produced during Persia's Safavid Dynasty. Bound in brown goat with embossed flap, covers with central panel with gilt medallions over red and black leather, rebacked. Highly polished Islamic paper; modern endpapers with three-crescent watermark, sized and polished.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1833This small-format Quran is written in fine Arabic script with an interlinear Persian translation in red ink and manuscript annotations in the margins. First leaves illuminated with elaborate carpet borders of crimson, blue, gold, etc. Gilded borders and marginal decorations.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1832This small-format Quran, decorated with an extremely colorful floral border, features cloud-shaped areas of interlinear gilding. The effect seems to present the sacred text as if it were floating among clouds in the sky.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1831This illuminated manuscript is a missal which contains all of the prayers, hymns, and biblical passages read by the priest during the celebration of the Latin Mass throughout the year. The "Use of Sarum" refers to the Anglo-Saxon and Norman liturgy codified in the eleventh century by St. Osmund, Bishop of Sarum (Salisbury). There is musical notation in black ink on red four-line staves and illumination throughout.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1830This illuminated manuscript is a missal which contains all of the prayers, hymns, and biblical passages read by the priest during the celebration of the Latin Mass throughout the year. It features Bohemian saints such as St. Wenceslaus, in the calendar. Included are red and blue decorated initials with ornate pen work extensions in purple or mauve filling the margins. Various prefaces set to plainchant are provided with musical notation in three-line staves.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1829This portable breviary, used by a Franciscan friar in Italy during the fifteenth century, includes a calendar for the use of Rome with later handwritten additions indicating the feasts of several Franciscan saints. Illuminated with northern Italian gold initials on red, blue, and green grounds with foliate decoration, gold bezants, and pen work extensions, the volume is written in a tiny gothic script and includes both text and music.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1828Breviaries consisted of psalms, antiphons, lectionary, martyrology, and other features. This breviary for Benedictine Use includes calendrical notes that point to a composition date circa 1431 and also includes an indulgence approved in 1431 by Pope Eugenius IV (1383–1447, r. 1431–1447). An early inscription places the manuscript in the Benedictine monastery of Santa Justina at Padolirone, near Padua, Italy.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1826Written mainly in Latin, but with Spanish rubrics (headings) in red ink, this manuscript Formulario contains the prayers and oaths used in the ceremony in which female novices made their profession as nuns and received the monastic vestments that they would wear for the remainder of their lives. Possibly from the Convent "de la Encarnación" in Sevilla.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1823This manuscript contains excerpts from the gradual and antiphony used in Diocese of Béziers in Languedoc in southern France.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
BRMS 58. Die XXVIII. Aprilis Festum S. Aphrodisii primi Episcopi Bilterrensis martyris & civitatis patroni. [Béziers, France, ca. 1730]. Manuscript on paper.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1822Tiny decorated book features fifteen miniatures and ten vignettes of the Labors of the Months in the calendar, each set within pinnacled Gothic niches with decorated margins. Illuminated near St. Omer near the Franco-Flemish border, the Sellers Hours was produced for Sarum Use, featuring particular texts and devotions to local saints preferred by English owners.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
BRMS 13. [Book of Hours. Use of Sarum]. [Flanders or Northern France (St. Omer?), ca. 1325–1330]. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. From the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1821Produced in Flanders for use in England, this richly illuminated manuscript includes a set of eight illustrations of scenes from the Infancy of Christ, such as the Annunciation and the Nativity, which traditionally introduced the eight sections of the book's principal reading, the Hours of the Virgin Mary. The illustrations reflect the influence of the "Boucicaut Master."]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1820The scribe who transcribed the text of this Book of Hours signed his name on folio 111 recto as "Biagio di Piero di Jacopo da Fiesole." The manuscript features four full-page illuminations and one large historiated initial, each highlighted with gold.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
BRMS 14. [Book of Hours. Use of Rome]. [Florence or Fiesole, ca. 1480]. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, signed by Biagio di Piero di Jacopo da Fiesole. From the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1819A modest Book of Hours written in gothic batarde script in brown, red, and blue ink with numerous French rubrics, this manuscript includes four full-page miniatures. Other pages feature illuminated initials and elaborate borders in a style similar to a type of French Books for Hours from the late fifteenth century.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
BRMS 15. [Book of Hours. Use of Troyes (?)]. [Northern France, ca. 1480]. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. From the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1818This manuscript was illuminated by a Flemish-trained artist of great skill. The program of illustration found in this manuscript is extensive, consisting of twenty large miniatures with trompe-l'oeil borders, twenty-four small miniatures of saints, and numerous illuminated initials.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
BRMS 16. [Book of Hours. Use of Rome]. [France (Tours?) or Flanders, ca. 1525]. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. From Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1817An incomplete Book of Hours that consists of at least three different manuscript fragments. The preserved sections of the oldest manuscript are likely from a Book of Hours for Troyes Use.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
BRMS 18. [Book of Hours. Use of Troyes]. [France, ca. 1400, with later additions]. Illuminated manuscript (text fragments) on vellum. From the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1816Early modern manuscript Book of Hours illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings of scenese from the Passion and the Life of the Virgin. Three versions of prayers are included in calligraphy without corrections or insertions. The illustrations were likely based on a suite of Flemish or Dutch prints.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00