Sunday 29 September 2019
The McCarthy Collection, Vol. II, Now Available
I have numerous blogposts in my drafts folder, but none that are ready to publish without some more work, so this weekend I will instead take the opportunity to advertise that a catalogue of illuminated manuscript leaves and cuttings, containing much new provenance information, was published a few weeks ago.
Basic details: 305×250mm; 248 pp.; 63 catalogue entries describing nearly 100 items; all reproduced in colour, often including the reverse side, and often with sister-leaves and/or comparanda in other collections.
ISBN 9781912168132.
It can be ordered from the publisher here, but does not seem to be available yet through Amazon or other sources.
Sunday 22 September 2019
The Name of the Rose (1986) - An Addendum
Since writing the previous post, I had another look on YouTube, and found a clip of the film in which Baskerville and Adso first visit the Library. All the manuscripts appear in the first 2 minutes of this 4½-minute clip:
This scene includes a few more shots of open manuscripts, mostly the same as the ones seen in the scriptorium scene.
This scene includes a few more shots of open manuscripts, mostly the same as the ones seen in the scriptorium scene.
Saturday 21 September 2019
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts in The Name of the Rose (1986)
Sean Connery, as William de Baskerville, inspecting a manuscript |
[The 4½-minute scene should play if if click this YouTube link, with the usual options to pause, watch full-screen, etc.; but you don't have to watch it in order to understand what follows]
Here is an overview of the scriptorium, as seen when the heroes of the story (the Franciscan William de Baskerville, played by Sean Connery, and his young protégé Adso of Melk, played by Christian Slater) first enter the room:
Saturday 14 September 2019
A Fake in Detroit
[Source] |
Thursday 12 September 2019
Kay Sutton (1943–2019)
Kay outside the Musée Cluny, Paris, in 2007 |
Saturday 7 September 2019
The Brölemann Price-Code: A Partial Decipherment?
A recent post caused me to look again at the question of the price-code use by at least one of the Brölemanns, and found in their manuscripts.
In my much older post about the Brölemann catalogues, I wrote that If enough examples could be collected, it ought also to be possible to decipher the Brölemann price-code. From the images we have, it is apparent that x=0, and other numbers are represented by c, d, l, q, s, t, and u.
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