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  1. Books - At a Price

    Date released
    15 Dec 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1541
    NoS ID
    022751
    Story no
    2 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Books - at a Price. DESCRIPTION: An auction in London, to dispose of the Dyson Perrins collection of illuminated manuscripts, underlined their value to the connoisseurs. The highest...

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  2. To Write and to Paint/To Read and to Look: On Medieval Manuscripts (1986 Video)

    Director
    Patrick Vandergeten; Dirk de Wit
    Subject
    Crafts
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min.

    By using original material and shots of old techniques, the successive steps in the process of making a manuscript are shown: 1) the preparations of a parchment, 2) the work of the copyist, 3) the activity...

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  3. 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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  4. Collector buys historic manuscript (1986)

    Genre
    Interview

    An unidentified male collector is interviewed about his purchase of an illuminated manuscript for 1.3 million pounds. He says he purchased the unique item to keep it in England, and may put it into the...

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  5. Focus: The Thomas Hardy Collection (1986)

    Sean Street visits Dorchester Library to see the unique set of items owned and by Thomas Hardy. He talks to Deputy Librarian Ian Lewis who explains how this Special Collection started. It is a huge Catalogue...

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  6. Europeana Libraries Launch

    Date
    4 Feb 2011, 11:16
    Author
    Eve-Marie
    Post Type
    Post

    5 million digital objects from 19 of Europe’s leading research and university libraries will be added to Europeana, the European digital library, as part of a two-year project funded by the European...

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  7. Luttrell Psalter, The (1993 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature; History
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 22 min., £12.95 (inclusive)

    Shows illustrations from the Luttrell Psalter, one of the best-known English illuminated manuscripts, revealing glimpses of everyday life on a typical country estate. Other sequences show modern re-creations...

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  8. Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings (2012)

    Subject
    English language and literature; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 177 minutes), £15.00

    A three-part television series in which art historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of the Medieval monarchy as revealed through illuminated manuscripts from the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts...

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  9. 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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  10. Monty at large (1979)

    Genre
    Documentary; Interview; Music

    Monty at Large. Monty Modlyn visits Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction houses in London. The history, turnover, structure, policy, fakes, manuscripts and hallmarking are discussed. Includes stories of...

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