Day 14
If Irish books interest you, please look at the following
web sites:
- http://www.austinc.edu/Academics/English/kells/KELLSarticle.html
- http://www2.tcd.ie/Library/kells.html
- http://portico.bl.uk/diglib/treasures/lindisfarne.html
- http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/christ.html
- http://www.usu.edu/~history/norm/columb~1.html
When considering Insular books, please understand the following
words:
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- scriptoria
- amarius
- medallions
- miniaturist
- prototypes
- Vatican Virgil
- Vienna / Juliana Anicia Dioscorides
- zoomorphic
- Insular
- Cathach
- Columba (Columcille)
- Carpet page
- Cuthbert
- Book of Durrow
- evangelist symbol page
- Lindisfarne
- architectural ornament
- Codex Amiatinus (Jarrow)
- Book of Kells
- Stonyhurst Gospels
- half uncial
- diminuendo
- incipit
- head under the wing or turn in the path
- "To every cow her calf: to every book
her copy."
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Images related to transitional early European books:
- Roman citizens knew books such as these two
Egyptian scrolls( one & two)
and this book of Euclid's writings
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- In the 4th century production began to drop,
however books such as the Joshua scroll
were made
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- Byzantine books would use Greek and a flat,
stylized look such as these two books of Terence (one
& two)
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- A more Hellenistic branch with more detail
and depth remains in the West
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- Books on medicine continue to be written
even as Rome is fully in decline: one,
two (note medallions)
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- Books by Discorides dealt with herbs among
other topics. Note the framed portrait of
him and the detailed illustrations.
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- A book like the Vatican Virgil could contain
work by many illustrators: one, two,
three.
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- Books like the Codex
Amiatinus show us what Western, writers and books look like.
Images related to Insular books:
- Map one and map two for reference
- Ogham script on rock
and modern metal
Cathach
- Examples of metalwork: one,
two, three &
four
- Irish monastaries at home
(green tending to red) and in Italy (white)
- Scribal activities: selecting
parchment, cutting folios, inscribing
lines, writing(various poses), common two handed writing/erasing
Bone practice 'sheet'
for designs
- Book of Durrow: text,
carpet page, evangelist
symbol page, illustration page and
decorated text
- Lindisfarne Gospel: cover,
virtual book, evangelist
illustration
- Stonyhurst Gospel: cover,
text page, re-discovery
- Book of Kells: carpet
page, illustration page, cannon
tables with architectural decoration
- Kells: cannon tables
plain, decorated text page, Mathew,
evangelist symbol page
- Kells: second evangelist
symbol page, Gospel illustration with
Monemost Reliquary in it
- Kells: zoomorphic apostrophe,
head under the wing
- typographic illustrations: one
and two
- the fall of the Insular
book
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