If you who have been to the exhibition, you may recognise them: Here is a sneak preview of two of the images that Lucy will be discussing in her lecture. Her lecture will be drawn in part from her most recent book, Penned and Painted: The Art and Meaning of Books in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, researched during lockdown, which includes fascinating new insights into some of the Library’s best-known manuscripts. 1540: Stowe MS 956Īs many will know, Lucy is a wonderful speaker, and she will be sharing her reflections on the British Library's Gold exhibition, and more broadly on the function and use of illumination in books. The gold binding on the Psalter of 'Anne Boleyn', c. Professor Sandler has been researching illuminated manuscripts for over seventy years through her long, productive and distinguished career, and has published widely, particularly on English 14th-century illumination, including her indispensable volume in the Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles. You won’t want to miss this lecture focusing on the illumination in Western manuscripts, given both in person and online by Professor Lucy Freeman Sandler, the Helen Gould Sheppard Professor Emerita, New York University. UWA Library staff, based on Alan G.Lecture on Tuesday, 12 July, 7:00 pm in the British Library main entrance hall and online Purchased and donated by the Friends of the UWA Library Thomas in 1977 for 3,000.00.īought from Alan G. Sold by Sotheby's in 1976 for 1,320.90 pounds. Thomas sale 1977: Catalogue 76, lot 5 (1,250 pounds) 11 : catalogue of manuscripts on papyrus, vellum and paper. (4) Sotheby's sale, 30 November 1976: Bibliotheca Phillippica Medieval manuscripts. Phillipps' crest, etc., stencilled on blank leaf. It was described in the sale catalogue as "From the Mocenigo Library at Venice". (2) Abbe Celotti his sale, Sotheby's, 14 March 1825, lot 321, price 22 pounds: "superbly bound in crimson velvet with gilt clasps and catches". These arms were born by Langen (Westphalia) and de la Motte-Baraffe (Brabant), but no Italian claimant is recorded. 1 a few years after the completion of the text. (1) A coat of arms, azure, five lozenges conjoined in bend or, (within a laurel wreath) has been added at the foot of f. Northern Italy (or just possibly South Germany) mid-fifteenth century Size of binding: 295 x 220 mm.Īfter its acquisition by the University of Western Australia, the manuscript was re-bound in modern red library buckram, with the bosses, clasps and catches retained. The present endleaves are marbled and date from the early nineteenth century. The edges are red (not gilt as one would expect with a medieval velvet binding). This is not the original binding, but it could be a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century rebinding re-using the medieval metalwork. 85.ġ976: Red velvet (spine worn), gilt fifteenth-century centre- and corner-bosses, clasps and catches. Initial letter to each book and preliminary verse in blue with puce penwork infilling or red with red infilling. 1, with white and blue ornament and penwork infilling and marginal prolongation. 84b.Ĭoat of arms (coloured) on opening folio. Corrections and additions in a sixteenth-century hand on f. Written in a large gothic text hand in dark brown ink, the interlinear gloss in a light ink. 184-end but in very clean sound condition with wide margins Waterstains, almost entirely marginal, from f. Book numbers supplied at the top of the page in an early hand 279 x 193 mm.Ģ05 folios, with one final blank, but lacking other blanks at both endsĬollation uncertain gathering at front of 6 or 8 leaves and from viii of 10, last now of 5Įarly foliation to f. Watermark: ox’s head surmounted with seven-petalled flower - type of Briquet 14785, 14787, 14789, 1492: a mid fifteenth-century mark, found in Northern Italy (Bergamo) and in Germany as far North as BrandenburgĢ75 x 195 mm leaves 11 by 7 3/4 ins.
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