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Facsimile edition of an important witness to the impact of the
Normans on the ecclesiastical culture of England. Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle, MS F [London, British Library, Cotton Domitian A.viii,
folios 30-70] is unique in presenting a sustainedly bilingual
[Latin and Old English] text. Palaeographicalevidence dates the
manuscript to caAD1100; from its script it is clear that it was
written at Canterbury. It is a witness - in language and script -
to the impact of the Norman regime on the ecclesiastical culture of
England and particularly its most important church. The evidence
which it provides for the history of the Kentish dialect attests at
the same time to the breakdown at Canterbury of the late West Saxon
literary standard. In view of its importance in various
contexts,the publisher and general editors now issue, as a
supplementary volume to the collaborative edition, a complete
facsimile of this interesting book as a preliminary to a new
edition in the series, with an introduction outlining theproblems
posed by the manuscript. Professor DAVID DUMVILLE is Professor of
History and Palaeography at the University of Aberdeen.
One of the most important Italian manuscripts in the Getty Museum,
the lavishly illustrated Gualenghi d'Este Hours was created around
1649 on the occasion of the marriage of diplomat Andrea Gualengo to
Orsina d'Este, a member of Ferrara's ruling family. The devotional
manuscript featured brilliant figured decoration of the
suffrages--short prayers to saints--and was created by Taddeo
Crivelli, one of the most important manuscript illuminators of the
Renaissance.
This volume includes reproductions of all the illuminations in the
original manuscript plus selected text pages, each with commentary.
Kurt Barstow examines the book's vivid devotional imagery in
relation to works of art of the period that help explain the Hours
significance for the fifteenth-century patrons. This beautifully
illustrated book is published to coincide with an exhibit featuring
the manuscript that will take place at the Getty Museum from May 9
to July 30, 2000.
This is a ground-breaking study of one of America's leading
designers of nineteenth-century publishers' highly decorated
bookbindings.This fully illustrated volume documents the life and
work of Alice C. Morse. Included in this book is a biography of
Morse by Grolier Club member Mindell Dubansky and two essays on her
work and influence by scholars in the field of nineteenth-century
decorative arts, followed by a comprehensive and lavishly
illustrated survey of all the known works by the designer drawn
from the personal collection of Mindell Dubansky and from the
resources of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Alice C. Morse
(1863-1961) was a prolific and versatile designer during the heyday
of the American Decorative Arts Movement. Though her fame has waned
since the early twentieth century, her work will be familiar to
admirers of artist-designed publishers' bindings of the period
1890-1910. She came to prominence during the late 1880s, when a
small group of exceptional American publishers began to commission
artist-designers such as Morse, and her contemporaries Sarah Wyman
Whitman and Margaret Armstrong, to design the covers of case
bindings. The Grolier Club exhibition marked the first time since
1923 that Morse's work was displayed to the public; and this
present volume is the first to collect all of Morse's book design
work, as well as literary posters and other ephemeral materials
relating to her work.
Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London's National
Portrait Gallery. Part biography, part detective novel, part love
story, and part meta archival meditation, Love Among the Archives
is an experiment in writing a life. Our subject is Sir George
Scharf, the founding director of the National Portrait Gallery in
London, well known and respected in the Victorian period, strangely
obscure in our own. We tell of discovering Scharf's souvenirs of a
social life among the highest classes, and then learning he was the
self made son of an impoverished immigrant. As we comb through 50
years of daily diaries, we stumble against plots we bring to the
archive from our reading of novels. We ask questions like, did
Scharf have a beloved? Why did Scharf kick his aged father out of
the family home? What could someone like Scharf mean when he
referred to an earl as his "best friend"? The answers turn out
never to be what Victorian fiction - or Victorianist Studies -
would have predicted. Presents a unique approach to life writing
that foregrounds the process of archival discovery; a contribution
to sexuality studies of the Victorian period that focuses on
domestic arrangements between middle class men; offers an
intervention into identity studies going beyond class, gender, and
sexuality to try out new categories like "extra man" or "perpetual
son" and a humorous critique of what literary critics do when they
turn to "the archive" for historical authenticity.
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