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Bestiary, The (1987 Video)

Subject

Art; Biology; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 1993 sale: £15.00 (+p&p)

The Bestiary is the standard medieval encyclopaedia of animals, laid out like a modern one with a picture of the creature accompanied by information on size, colouring, habitat, gestation periods, and other...

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Shakespeare Authorship Controversy, The (1938 Radio)

Radio programme. The tomb of Edmund Spenser in Westminster Abbey is about to be opened in an attempt to locate manuscripts to prove the authorship of the Shakespeare plays.

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Original Alice, The (1989 Video)

Director

Clive Izard

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min.

Filmed on location around Christ Church, Oxford, where Lewis Carroll lived most of his life, and in the British Library where his manuscripts and papers are held. Traces the Alice story from the original...

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Theory and Practice (1994 Video)

Producer

Mags Noble

Subject

Music

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the relationship between the rigours of theoretical training and the ‘inspirational’ image of the ‘great’ composers. Using surviving harmony exercises used by Beethoven and Handel, and set...

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English Romanesque Art 1066-1200 (1985 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 59 min., 1997 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

Features the art and architecture of the period 1066-1200, based on the 1984 English Romanesque Art exhibition at the Hayward Galley, London. In seven sections: introduction and background to the development...

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Lindisfarne Gospels, The (1995 Video)

Director

Clive Izard

Producer

Kate Barnes

Subject

Art; English language and literature; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL/NTSC). col. 35 min., £11.00 (+VAT +p&p) (Granada) £12.95 (inclusive) (British Library)

The story of the creation of the Lindesfarne Gospels by Anglo-Saxon monks following the death of Cuthbert in 687, combining location footage (Holy Island or Lindesfarne, Chester-le-Street, Farne Islands,...

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Sherborne Missal, The (2001)

Subject

Art; Librarianship; Music; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (Hybrid), £12.95

The Sherborne Missal, which included illustrations of British birds in its decorative borders, is the largest, most lavishly decorated late-medieval service book to have survived. It contains 694 parchment...

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Vaux Psalter, The (Cd-Rom) (1997 Multimedia)

Subject

Art

Distribution

CD-ROM

Pictures from the Vaux Psalter, held in the Lambeth Place Library (Ms 233), an outstandingly beautiful 14th-century service book.

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World of the Lindisfarne Gospels, The (2003)

Subject

Art; History; Literature; Religious studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

The Lindisfarne Gospels is the greatest of Anglo-Saxon treasures and one of the world’s great works of art. It is a volume of the four Gospels, in Latin, created in the early eighth century, with...

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Trinity Apocalypse, The (Cd-Rom) (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Art

Distribution

CD-ROM

The full text and 91 images from the 35 folios of the ‘Trinity Apocalypse’, an outstanding example of the English illuminated manuscript, produced around 1250. Includes full-colour images and the...

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