One manuscript, created in two countries by two different workshops, over a hundred years apart.
Asteriscos et obelos suis locis restitui – the revision of the Psalter during the Carolingian Renaissance
July 21, 2014 By
Today, I would like to discuss one type of early medieval psalter and the one feature that discerns this type – and that is the presence of critical signs.
Basan and Bata: The Occupational Surnames of Two Pre-Conquest Monks of Canterbury
January 22, 2014 By
As hereditary surnames were not common in Anglo-Saxon England, men of the same name were differentiated by sobriquets based on their place of origin, a physical characteristic or occupation. This article argues that Eadui Basan and Aelfric Bata, two eleventh-century monks of Christ Church, had sobriquets, in Latin of fashionable obscurity, that reflected their occupations within the monastic community.
Transformations of Print into Painting: A Case Study of the Context of Prints in an Illustrated Brigittine Psalter
January 11, 2014 By
This liturgical psalter raises issues of the production and consumption of religious texts in convents in the northern Netherlands.
The Metamorphoses of a Late Fifteenth-Century Psalter (Harl. MS. 1892)
August 14, 2012 By
Illuminated Psalters were rarely produced in the fifteenth century and, after a late flourishing in the last decade with a couple of lavish copies,1 they virtually disappeared by the early sixteenth century.
The Art of Comparing in Byzantium
August 18, 2011 By
The Art of Comparing in Byzantium Maguire, Henry The Art Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 1 (1988) Abstract Rhetoric was an important component of Byzantine higher education, which affected the literature, art, and even mentality of the Byzantines. A study of the theory of encomium and censure shows how rhetorical structures, especially comparisons and biographical sequences, […]
Animals in English Wood Carving
June 5, 2011 By
Animals in English Wood Carving Druce, G. C. The Third Annual Volume of the Walpole Society, 1913-1914 (Oxford, 1914), Version 2 (August 2004) Abstract The treatment of animals and birds in ecclesiastical carvings hardly seems to have received sufficient attention in the past. In common with other unobtrusive details they are liable to be passed over […]
‘For What Purpose Do They Spend?’ Some Preliminary Thoughts on Penwork Produced by William de Brailes and his Collaborators
January 11, 2011 By
‘For What Purpose Do They Spend?’ Some Preliminary Thoughts on Penwork Produced by William de Brailes and his Collaborators Johnston, Cynthia Marginalia, Vol. 9, (2009) Abstract In the catalogue description of six leaves from a Psalter attributed to William de Brailes (Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 330), Paul Binski comments that ‘[i]lluminated Bibles produced in France and England […]
“Marginal Beings: Hybrids as the Other in Late Medieval Manuscripts”
January 5, 2011 By
“Marginal Beings: Hybrids as the Other in Late Medieval Manuscripts” Thimann, Heidi Hortulus, Vol. 5, No. 1, (2009) Abstract This paper concerns the hybrids in the margins of medieval psalters and Books of Hours. In showing examples from the Rutland Psalter, the Luttrell Psalter, and The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, I ask what are these hybrids’ […]
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