Catalogue of the Ethiopian Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library

E. Ullendorff

Bodleian Library

English Rural Life in the Middle Ages (Bodleian Picture Books)

Gold-Tooled Bookbindings (Picture Books)

Town and Gown: Eight Hundred Years of Oxford Life

No-Author

The Life of Sir Thomas Bodley: The Honourable Founder of the Publique [sic] Library in the University of Oxford

Bodley, Thomas

The internal diversity in Europe in the Middle Ages and early Modern period (social, linguistic, religious and national) created communities with parallel interests across political divides. The links between these groups and their mobility across the Continent, creating international communities bound together by religion, profession, trade, skill or craft, are highlighted in the five chapters of this book. The opening chapter discusses practical and conceptual maps, travel and the ideas of cartography and navigation. 'The Classics and Christendom' presents models of unity, spiritual and secular, provided by the inheritance from the ancient world. 'International Languages - International Learning' focuses on the Latin language, the shared language of religion, learning, and administration, which facilitated the mobility of book producers, of the educated classes and of the books they carried with them. The following chapter traces the development of European vernacular languages. The final section looks at how European identity was sharpened through increased knowledge with other worlds and traditions, for example, by reference to a Latin translation of an Arabic medical manual, which served for centuries as a textbook in European schools of medicine. Each item is illustrated in full-page colour and accompanied by a facing-page description. These are supplemented by listings of provenance and printed literature. Originally written to accompany an exhibition in the Library in 1994, this is a beautifully-illustrated and elegantly written testament to the cross-fertilization of European culture and tradition, and to Britain's involvement with that culture.

J. R. R. Tolkien

History

Priestman, Judith

World

The Bodleian Library: a Guide

TYACK, Geoffrey

Travel

Photography and the Printed Page in the 19th Century

Wilson, J.

<p>Henry, archdeacon of Huntingdon, England (c 1088-c 1154) has been admired for centuries as the author of the monumental Historia Anglorum. The recent discovery of the Anglicanus ortus opens a new window onto this important English author as well as onto the uses of poetry and the knowledge of medicine in medieval England. Written entirely in Latin verse, the Anglicanus ortus describes the medicinal uses of 160 different herbs, spices and vegetables. Henry drew on centuries of learned medicine to compose this work, employing the medical knowledge of ancient authors like Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides and of medieval scholars like Walahfrid Strabo, Macer Floridus and Constantine the African. This critical edition is based on the five extant manuscripts and includes a complete English translation on facing pages and a commentary on every poem. An extensive introduction describes the manuscript witnesses in detail, examines Henry's poetic skill and use of sources, and establishes the place of the Anglicanus ortus in a pivotal era in the history of medicine and natural philosophy.</p>

Anglicanus Ortus: A Verse Herbal of the Twelfth Century (British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period)

of Huntingdon, Henry

Arts & Photography

Talking about Detective Fiction

Literature & Fiction

James,p.d.

History & Criticism

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