Persian Miniature Painting and Its Influence on the Art of Turkey and India

Titley, Norah M.

British Library

Virgil: His poetry through the ages

Williams, R. D.

Literature & Fiction

London publishers and printers, c. 1800-1870

History

Brown, Philip A. H

Europe

First edition. A highly readable and informative guide to the history of various writing systems. Well-illustrated throughout, many in color. With a selected bibliography for more reading. 224 pages. paper over boards, dust jacket.. small 4to..

A history of writing

GAUR, Albertine

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Publications proscribed by the government of India: A catalogue of the collections in the India Office Library and Records and the Department of ... Books, British Library Reference Division

Reference

Graham Shaw

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

D.F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determine their meanings. He demonstrates that as works are reproduced and reread, they take on different forms and meanings. This is true of all forms of recorded information, McKenzie claims, including sound, graphics, films, landscape and new electronic media. The bibliographical skills first developed for manuscripts and books can, he shows, be applied to a wide range of cultural documents. This book offers a unifying concept of texts that seeks to acknowledge their variety and the complexity of their relationships.

Bibliography and the sociology of texts (The Panizzi lectures)

McKenzie, D. F.

Physical description; vii, 100 p : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Subjects; British Library - Catalogs. British Library - Exhibition Catalogs. Armenian Church - History. Bible. N.T. Gospels - Illustrations - Catalogs.

Armenian illuminated Gospel-books

Religion & Spirituality

Nersessian, V.

Christian Books & Bibles

London, The British Library - Tring, Map Collector Publicathions, 1988, 4to (cm. 28,2 x 22,5) legatura tutta tela con sovraccopertina illustrata a colori, pp. 168 con 98 carte nel testo.

Printed maps of the British Isles, 1650-1750

Shirley, Rodney W.

Atlases & Maps

A survey of the evolution of scripts and a guide to reading historical documents illustrated from a wide range of manuscripts. Fifty-five full-page plates give examples of the major western scripts in broadly chronological sequence, each accompanied by a commentary indentifying the type of script, its historical and regional currency, distinctive features and style, and a transcription. Michelle Brown is a curator in the department of manuscripts at The British Library. She has taught courses in Paleography and History at the University of London and at the Library.

A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 by Michelle P. Brown (1990-01-01)

Arts & Photography

BROWN, Michelle

History & Criticism

The de Brailes Hours is the earliest surviving independent Book of Hours, dating from about 1240. The work of William de Brailes, of Oxford, it is illustrated throughout with miniatures and historiated initials with a sequence of scenes. As the first example of this new type of text, its design and iconography have much that is experimental. In this book, Claire Donovan provides a detailed discussion of the Hours, its iconography and its place in the 13th-century Oxford book trade, with about two-thirds of the manuscript reproduced in black and white and full-page colour illustrations of some of the finest illuminated pages. Claire Donovan studied art history at Oxford and East Anglia. Her doctoral thesis was on early Books of Hours in England.

The de Brailes Hours: Shaping the Book of hours in thirteenth-century Oxford

Politics & Social Sciences

Donovan, Claire

Social Sciences

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