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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...
For generations the Patua (Chitrakara) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The film follows the daily lives of Muslim Patua women from Naya villages near...
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...
The Royal Mamluk Baybars’ Qur’an is recognised as the masterpiece of its time. It was produced in Cairo during 1304-6 and is called after the Mamluk ruler Baybar II who commissioned it. The calligraphic...
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...
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,...
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...
Contains 7000 illustrations from manuscripts and printed books from the early Middle ages to th 16th century. There are 2 kinds of pictures: 1) handpainted miniatures, used as decorations and/or...
Looks at the Gospel Book of Henry the Lion, a manuscript from the Middle Ages said to be one of the most valuable books in the world.
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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