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The "De Brailes Hours" in the British Library (Add MS 49999) [6] [7] is the earliest surviving separate English Book of hours (it has incorrectly been claimed to be the earliest anywhere, and the prototype of the form), [8] the type of book that was to become the leading vehicle for illumination in the late Middle Ages. It was probably created ...
The Bruges Garter Book is a 15th-century Anglo-Norman illuminated manuscript containing portraits of the founder knights of the Order of the Garter. [1] It was created sometime between about 1430 to 1440, probably in London, [ 2 ] to the order of William Bruges (c. 1375–1450), Garter King of Arms , and constitutes the first armorial covering ...
Some years ago, the British Library partnered with an external funder to digitise a large collection (~45,000 titles, ~65,000 volumes) of 19th century books. These are currently available through JISC Historic Books and other sources such as via print-on-demand copies at Amazon and an iPad application. The Library have recently announced that:
Gothic book illustration, or gothic illumination, originated in France and England around 1160/70, while Romanesque forms remained dominant in Germany until around 1300. Throughout the Gothic period , France remained the leading artistic nation, influencing the stylistic developments in book illustration .
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The purchase of the collection by the British Museum was in 1807. [2] The main features of the collection, as outlined by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, are: [3] State papers and correspondence of Lord Burghley. Papers of Sir Julius Caesar. Papers of White Kennett; his manuscripts passed to James West and so to Lansdowne. [2]
The collection is not to be confused with the Royal Collection of various types of art still owned by the Crown, nor the King's Library of printed books, mostly assembled by George III, and given to the nation by his son George IV, which is also in the British Library, as is the Royal Music Library, a collection mostly of scores and parts both ...
Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror or Gothic romanticism) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror fiction and romanticism Contents: Top