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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...
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...
Considers the latest scientific evidence concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls and shows how archaeology is not only providing an insight into the documents, but is also fuelling the controversy over how the...
Looks at the British Library’s two surviving copies of Magna Carta, as well as other medieval documents and footage of the places central to the story of Magna Carta, including Canterbury, Dover castle,...
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...
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...
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...
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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