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Hunter purchased a collection of biblical manuscripts from Caesar de Missy. About a third of Hunter's books are on the subject of medicine. They include key historical texts by authors including Hippocrates , Galen , Vesalius and William Harvey , as well as the writings of Hunter's contemporaries, such as William Smellie , Albinus [ ambiguous ...
Bucharest, National Academy Library (BAR, Ms. oriental nr.333, Ferdousi; Sah-name "Cartea regilor- Book of kings", sec. XIX, paper; 573 f.; 360/220 mm. ta'lik writing. Text on patru four columns in red frame. The manuscript has 77 de miniatures with hunting scenes, fighting scenes or regal palace interiors. The manuscript was Gh.
The work is part of the collection of the Glasgow University Library, cataloged as Sp Coll MS Hunter U.3.2 (229), which acquired the book in 1807. It derives its colloquial name, the "Hunterian Psalter", from having been part of the collection of 18th century Scottish anatomist and book collector William Hunter , who willed his collection to ...
This listing includes every surviving manuscript with Anglo-Saxon miniatures, drawings, or other major decoration. It also includes a representative sample of manuscripts with Anglo-Saxon pen-work initials. The manuscripts are sorted by their current location. Besançon. Bibliothèque Municipale. MS 14; Gospel Book, 10th and 11th century; Boulogne
Six hundred years later, the codex resurfaced when David Solomon Sassoon purchased it from an owner who lived in current day Ankara, Turkey, [13] for £350 in 1929 and added his bookplate to the inner binding of the manuscript. [1] [14] [2] Though known to scholars in the 20th century, the book stayed under private ownership. [10]
Types of illuminated manuscript are books often illuminated, such as Psalters, Gospel Books etc. Manuscript illuminators are individual artists. The A-Z sub-categories contain articles on individual manuscripts.
For English manuscripts produced after 900, see the List of illuminated Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Antwerp Sedulius (Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus MS M. 17. 4) Barberini Gospels (Rome, Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica MS Barberini Lat. 570) Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 10861 Lives of Saints (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 10861)
Giovanni Bernardo de Rossi (1742–1831) published a list of 731 manuscripts. [4] The main manuscript discoveries in modern times are those of the Cairo Geniza (c. 1890) and the Dead Sea/Qumran Caves Scrolls (1947). 260,000 Hebrew manuscripts were discovered in an old synagogue in Cairo, 10,000 of which are biblical manuscripts.