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	Caedmon manuscript - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From spaces left by the scribes, it appears that it was intended that the manuscript be fully illustrated; in the event, the work was left unfinished after only about a third of the artwork had been drawn.
		The manuscript is partly illustrated with a series of line drawings depicting the events in the text.
		The manuscript is currently part of the collection of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caedmon_manuscript (696 words)

	Books on Medieval History - Postscript Books by Mail - New Arrivals
		This lavishly illustrated book explores this rich tradition and its role in medieval society through 35 of the finest illuminated pages from three famous manuscripts: the Viennese Tacuinum, listing good and bad effects of foodstuffs; the Bern Physiologus, describing medicinal cures derived from animals; and the Oxford Bestiary, a compilation of animal stories and lore.
		Karkov examines the complex interrelationship between texts and drawings in the late 10th-early 11th century illustrated Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript, Junius 11.
		Working from original manuscripts, she reveals prophecy to have been a major language for the discussion of public affairs, enshrining ideas of 'Englishness' and a 'national' community, and introducing a great crusading hero-ruler, a second Arthur, who would lead his people into the Last Days.
	www.psbooks.co.uk /History_Medieval_Rec.asp?Browse=05 (696 words)

	10th and 11th Cent. Clothing in England: A Portfolio of Images
		Psychomachia [1], written and illustrated in the late 10th century...The technique of the illustrations of all the Anglo-Saxon manuscripts of the
		"This profusely illustrated manuscript is the earliest of the three English copies of the Utrecht Psalter, which was made at the abbey of Hautvilles, near Rheims in the early ninth century."
		Because two later artists revived the Utrecht iconography, it has been assumed that the manuscript was removed from Christ Church for a period of time...As a result, due to the absence of the model, artists E and F were forced to improvise." (cf.
	www.uvm.edu /~hag/rhuddlan/images (1827 words)

	Voynich Manuscript
		The Voynich manuscript is an elaborately lettered and illustrated document, in a script never deciphered.
		This page, the so-called Voynich Manuscript, has often been called the most mysterious book in the world.
		So, here we have a manuscript of considerable mystery, and a colored past, that has resisted the best cryptographic attacks of this century.
	webusers.physics.umn.edu /~duvernoi/voynich.html (291 words)

	UPNE America Pictured to the Life
		GEORGE A. MILES is William Robertson Coe Curator of the Yale Collection of Western Americana at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
		Better known as an art collector, Paul Mellon was also one of America’s premier book collectors of the late 20th century.America Pictured to the Life: Illustrated Works from the Paul Mellon Bequest explores the extraordinary range of American illustrated books that Mr.
		Mellon’s estate gave to Yale University& Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
	www.upne.com /0-8457-3138-6.html (235 words)

	Life of King Edward the Confessor
		Ee.3.59 contains the only copy of an illustrated Anglo-Norman verse Life of St Edward the Confessor, written in England probably in the later 1230s or early 1240s, and preserved in this manuscript, executed c.
	www.lib.cam.ac.uk /MSS/Ee.3.59 (235 words)

	Voynich manuscript - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book with incomprehensible contents, written some 600 years ago by an unknown author in an unidentified script and unintelligible language.
		The bizarre features of the Voynich manuscript text (such as the doubled and tripled words) and the suspicious contents of its illustrations (such as the chimeric plants) have led many people to conclude that the manuscript may in fact be a hoax.
		The Voynich manuscript is central to the plot of Brad Strickland’s The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost, part of the Johnny Dixon series begun by author John Bellairs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voynich_manuscript (6060 words)

	Voynich MS - Short Tour - Intro
		Among these was an illustrated manuscript codex of 234 pages, written in an unknown script.
		Now, almost 100 years later, the Voynich manuscript still stands as probably the most elusive puzzle in the world of cryptography.
		Tepenec was one of Rudolf's private physicians and the director of his botanical gardens and he must have owned the manuscript between 1608, when he received his title "de Tepenec", and 1622, when he died.
	www.voynich.nu /s_intro.html#intro (399 words)

	Voynich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book of unknown contents, and the Voynich refers to Wilfrid Michael Voynich.
		Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864-1960), the author of the novel The Gadfly.
		Wilfrid Michael Voynich (1865-1930), husband of Ethel Lilian Voynich.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voynich (111 words)

	The Observer UK News Secret of historic code: it's gibberish
		The manuscript - written on vellum in neat and clear handwriting, illustrated with watercolours - is now a prize exhibit at Yale University.
		But now a British academic believes he has uncovered the secret of the Voynich manuscript, an Elizabethan volume of more than 200 pages that is filled with weird figures, symbols and writing that has defied the efforts of the twentieth century's best codebreakers and most distinguished medieval scholars.
		The Voynich manuscript was the Elizabethan equivalent of the Hitler diaries.'
	observer.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,1130727,00.html (703 words)

	Texts
		It survives in four manuscripts, one of which is MS British Library Cotton Vitellius C. iii, which is vibrantly illustrated.
		The vita of St. Seaxburh is ascribed to Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, a prolific biographer of Anglo-Saxon saints, and is preserved in an early twelfth-century manuscript.
		This is an Old English translation of a late antique herbal that is erroneously attributed to Apuleius and has been expanded by the inclusion of other source material.
	www.medievalmaternity.org /anglosaxon/texts.htm (307 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Anglo-Saxon poetry
		The first manuscript is called the Junius manuscript (also known as the Caedmon manuscript), which is an illustrated poetic anthology.
		These manuscripts have been highly prized by collectors since the 16th century, both for their historic value and for their aesthetic beauty of uniformly spaced letters and decorative elements.
		A large number of manuscripts remain from the 600 year Anglo-Saxon period, with most written during the last 300 years (9th–11th century), in both Latin and the vernacular.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Anglo-Saxon_poetry (3541 words)

	Middle English literature, The Dance of Death in London
		Fortunately the Middle English text still survives in 12 different manuscripts, and in 1554 it was printed at the end of Tottel's edition of Lydgate's "Fall of Princes".
		The text from the Ellesmere manuscript will be presented here and I will attempt to translate parts of it into modern English, but to paraphrase Lydgate:
		Therefore the text in this section has been illustrated with Guyot Marchant's woodcuts from Paris, 1485.
	www.dodedans.com /Epaul.htm (3541 words)

	Jeanne d'Evreux, Manuscripts, MMA
		This precious manuscript was written and illustrated (illuminated) entirely by hand on calf-skin parchment that had been specially treated to receive ink and paint.
		The uppercase letters and pen flourishes were added before the illuminator created the highly inventive line enders and inhabited letters.
		Its surface had to be ruled so that the text and margins would be straight; this tedious task was given to an assistant.
	www.metmuseum.org /explore/Jde/jde2.htm (3541 words)

	Voynich Manuscript Mailing List
		The small (16 by 23 cm) manuscript consists of 102 vellum leaves including several fold-outs, copiously illustrated with water colors.
		Mysteries surrounding the Voynich Manuscript have puzzled researchers since the earliest surviving report in the seventeenth century: we have no clear idea of its date, its author, its provenance, the meaning of its script, or even the meaning of its drawings.
		The author of the manuscript was then thought to have been the 13th-century monk and scholar Roger Bacon (1214?-1294?), but this attribution now appears to be much too early.
	www.voynich.net (635 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books News DNA used in attempt to solve Christian mystery
		It is the earliest existing illustrated Latin manuscript of the Gospels.
		By 1500 there were 88 versions of the Canterbury Tales in manuscript, containing 25,000 pages of text, and the Canterbury Tales Project, led by Peter Robinson at De Montfort University, Leicester, embarked on a 10-year long attempt to sort out their lineage.
		A full-page miniature in the Canterbury Gospels manuscript.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1002586,00.html (513 words)

	Essential Chaucer: Editions
		Intended to present fresh texts from the best manuscripts, variants from the important manuscripts and editions down to the present, textual and explanatory notes summarizing the scholarship and criticism to c1980- 85, and introductory surveys of the criticism and textual tradition.
		Based upon preferred manuscripts of the works (Ellesmere for Canterbury Tales), the eclectic text, the introductory essays, and the textual and explanatory notes have made this the standard edition of Chaucer for several generations.
		Valuable primarily for its list of manuscript variants appended to each poem, although the glossary and surveys of the manuscripts of the individual poems are helpful.
	colfa.utsa.edu /chaucer/ec2.html (1149 words)

	exodus.html
		Raw, �The probable derivation of most of the illustrations in Junius II from an illustrated Old Saxon Genesis�, Anglo-Saxon England 5 (1976).
		Henderson, �The programme of illustrations in Bodleian MS Junius XI�, in Studies in Memory of David Talbot Rice, ed.
		Raw, �The construction of Junius 11�, ASE 13 (1984)
	users.ox.ac.uk /~sjoh1193/exodus.html (1149 words)

	Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England - Cambridge University Press
		This book explores the complex interrelationship between texts and drawings in the late-tenth or early-eleventh century Junius II manuscript, the only surviving illustrated Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript.
		Poems and illustrations work to create a carefully crafted and unified manuscript, but both also use formulaic language, iconography and compositions to construct a web of intertextual and intervisual references that open the poems to readings far more diverse than those of the biblical books on which they are based.
		Together poems and drawings create a new and unique version of biblical history, and suggest ways in which biblical history relates to Anglo-Saxon history and the manuscript’s Anglo-Saxon audience - a process which has been extended by the manuscript’s many editors to include contemporary history and the contemporary reader.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521800692&print=y (221 words)

	Encyclopedia: Garden of Eden
		The Expulsion illustrated in the English Caedmon manuscript, c.
		Garden of Eden motifs most frequently portrayed in illuminated manuscripts and paintings are the "Sleep of Adam" ("Creation of Eve"), the "Temptation of Eve" by the Serpent, the "Fall of Man" where Adam takes the fruit, and the "Expulsion".
		Download high resolution version (833x663, 52 KB)Illustration from page 46 of the Caedmon manuscript The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Garden-of-Eden (4128 words)

	MS Junius 11
		Of the four surviving manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon poetry, MS Junius 11 is the only one which is illustrated.
		This digital publication is a facsimile edition of MS Junius 11 with historical introduction, art-historical commentary on the manuscripts Anglo-Saxon illustrations of the 'Genesis' cycle, and an extensive bibliography; it includes images of the Old Saxon Vatican 'Genesis' and Junius MSS 73 and 73* (Franciscus Junius' own comments on the MS Junius 11).
		This tenth-century manuscript contains four poems based on the Old and New Testaments: Genesis A and B, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan.
	www.evellum.com /junius (447 words)

	Web Directory: English Bible Versions
		The Cædmon Manuscript: parts of Genesis, Exodus and Daniel in Old English verse, illustrated with Anglo-Saxon drawings, c.
		A.D. From the Early Manuscripts at Oxford University.
		Here is a thoughtful discussion of translation issues, comparison of versions, reference chart of manuscripts, and a new translation of the Gospels by the author of the site.
	www.bible-researcher.com /links02.html (5253 words)

	Manuscript, manuscript paper writing, printable manuscript paper
		Modern manuscript Sermon manuscript Free music manuscript paper Bible manuscript History illuminated manuscript History of manuscript Anglo manuscript saxon Illustrated manuscript Celtic illuminated manuscript Ellesmere manuscript
		The Auchinleck Manuscript (NLS Adv MS 19.2.1) is one of the National...
		Manuscript format is one of them, and something that often creates some...
	watchcomputer.com /manuscript.html (5253 words)

	terencechaucer
		It is one of the thirteen illustrated manuscripts that have survived for us from before 1300, these typically giving the actors' masks on their rack, then often illustrating the plays' scenes.
		The Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales and the Luttrell Psalter are both exquisite - except for the comic faces and distorted bodies of some of their characters.
		These manuscripts were often lavishly illuminated, giving rise to later printed books with woodblocks for every scene.
	www.umilta.net /terencechaucer.html (5253 words)

	Ellesmere Manuscript; general note
		In this manuscript, each Tale is illustrated with a portrait of the teller at its beginning.
		The Ellesmere Manuscript (which is in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California) is one of the two earliest surviving manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales, the other is the Hengwrt Manuscript (or Peniarth 392 D, now in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire).
		The Canterbury tales : a facsimile and transcription of the Hengwrt manuscript with variants from the Ellesmere manuscript, Geoffrey Chaucer; edited by Paul G. Ruggiers; introductions by Donald C. Baker, and by A. Doyle and M. Parkes.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~chaucer/canttales/knight/elles-ms.html (619 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England
		This book reveals the interrelationship of text and picture in the only surviving illustrated Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript.
		It locates the manuscript within the broader cultural contexts in which it was produced and read, and documents the way in which it was transformed by poets, artists, and modern scholars and editors from a collection of biblical poetry to a national historical narrative.
		You can view sample pages from this book.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521800692 (321 words)

	A Treasure of 15th-Century Manuscript Illumination (Getty Exhibitions)
		Throughout the century and across Europe, princes enhanced their prestige by creating libraries stocked with richly illustrated manuscript copies of historical and spiritual texts.
		Despite this competition, the illuminated manuscript enjoyed a golden era.
		A Treasure of 15th-Century Manuscript Illumination (Getty Exhibitions)
	www.getty.edu /art/exhibitions/manuscripts.html (321 words)

	Bodleian Library: Western manuscripts to c.1500: Home page
		The illuminated manuscripts of these colleges are described briefly, and many are illustrated, in J. Alexander and Elzbieta Temple, Illuminated manuscripts in Oxford college libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford, 1985).
		For a list of Oxford University institutions whose medieval manuscripts are not on deposit at the Bodleian, follow this link.
		There is a vast amount of information available at the Bodleian concerning its manuscripts, but only a tiny fraction is currently available online; we intend progressively to make more information available at this website, as and when resources permit.
	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/medieval.htm (321 words)

	Codicology
		Siân Echard's Medieval and Arthurian Pages has some illustrated discussion of the Winchester MS and Caxton's print.
		Norton Topics Online has an enlargeable pseudo-colour image of the Winchester Manuscript, fol.
	faculty.smu.edu /sshepher/Codicology.htm (49 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Winchester Bible
		Manuscript, §III, 2(ii)(a): Types of illustrated text: Liturgical and devotional
		Early Christian and Byzantine art, §V, 2(iv)(c): Greek religious manuscripts: Kings
		Bible, §I, 1(i): Early Christian and Byzantine manuscript
	www.artnet.com /library/09/0917/T091794.ASP (908 words)

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