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It contains many lavish illustrations in the High Gothic style with Italianate influence, and is perhaps one of the most distinguished illustrated manuscripts created in Spain. The Golden Haggadah is now in the British Library and can be fully viewed as part of their Digitized Manuscript Collection MS 27210. [1] Scenes from the Book of Exodus
Folio 43r from the De Brailes Hours (British Library Add MS 49999) showing a signed self-portrait by "W de Brailes who painted me" (left margin). [1] William de Brailes (active c. 1230 – c. 1260) was an English Early Gothic manuscript illuminator, presumably born in Brailes, Warwickshire.
The Sherborne Missal (London, British Library, Add MS 74236) is an early 15th-century English illuminated manuscript missal, one of the finest English examples of International Gothic painting. With 347 vellum leaves measuring 535 by 380 millimetres (21.1 in × 15.0 in), it weighs 20 kg. [1]
The British Library was created on 1 July 1973 as a result of the British Library Act 1972. [13] Prior to this, the national library was part of the British Museum , which provided the bulk of the holdings of the new library, alongside smaller organisations which were folded in (such as the National Central Library , [ 14 ] the National Lending ...
Alba-Iulia, Romania, Batthyaneum Library, s.n.; Vatican library, Pal. lat. 50; Cover in London, British Library (Codex Aureus of Lorsch) Cambridge , Corpus Christi College , MS 197B, ff. 1-36 (Formerly pp. 245–316) and London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho C. V ( Cotton-Corpus Christi Gospel Fragment )
Folio 14r, initial B from "Beatus", first word of Psalm 1The Howard Psalter and Hours (British Library Arundel MS 83 I) is a 14th-century illuminated prayerbook.It includes a liturgical Psalter with canticles and litany, the Office of the Dead, a calendar of East Anglian origin and an incomplete Hours of the Passion.
The British Library has acquired the private archive – containing notebooks, video and photographs – of Hunter Davies, the author of the only authorised biography of The Beatles to date.
The vertical plan of early Gothic cathedrals had three levels, each of about equal height; the clerestory, with arched windows which admitted light on top, under the roof vaults; the triforium a wider covered arcade, in the middle; and, on the ground floor, on either side of the nave, wide arcades of columns and pillars, which supported the weight of the ceiling vaults through the ribs