EditorialIskandar visiting the hermit in his cave. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of Nezami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). Herat, Afghanistan; 1535-1540. Shelfmark: Add. 25900 Page Folio Number: f.250v.
EditorialPotter (Kumhar). Kumhar, the potter caste of the Panjab. Tashrih al-aqvam, an account of origins and occupations of some of the sects, castes and tribes of India. Written at Hansi Cantonment, Hissar District, eighty-five miles north-west of Delhi for C...
EditorialAmaracus, Sampsuchum, Maiorana and Maiorana renuifolia, Maioran and Little Maioran, fol. 250v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Fe...
EditorialHours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain: Fol. 250v, c. 1495-1500. And associates Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444-1519). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; codex: 22.5 x 15.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 in.).
EditorialLower half of folio shows text with marginal grotesque with, below, bas-de-page scene of St. Dunstan grabbing the Devil by the nose with red-hot tongs, heated in the furnace behind him. Smithfield Decretals [Decretals of Gregory IX]. France?; 1300-1340...
EditorialHours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain: Fol. 250v, c. 1495-1500. And associates Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444-1519). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; codex: 22.5 x 15.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 in.).
EditorialPotter (Kumhar). Kumhar, the potter caste of the Panjab. Tashrih al-aqvam, an account of origins and occupations of some of the sects, castes and tribes of India. Written at Hansi Cantonment, Hissar District, eighty-five miles north-west of Delhi for C...
EditorialLower half of folio shows text with marginal grotesque with, below, bas-de-page scene of St. Dunstan grabbing the Devil by the nose with red-hot tongs, heated in the furnace behind him. Smithfield Decretals [Decretals of Gregory IX]. France?; 1300-1340...
EditorialAdded page of a large historiated and illuminated initial 'B'(eatus) with a tree of Jesse, roundels or half-roundels of the six days of Creation, mounted animals jousting, and David with a slingshot and Goliath, with heraldic arms in the left margin, i...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of Barnabus preacing before a group of figures; a decorated initial 'L'(ucerna). Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B. VII, f.250v. Language: Latin,...
Editorial(Miniature) William Long Sword, Duke of Normandy, refuses the monks' charity; he is attacked by a boar; he accepts their gifts; he restores Jumièges. Chroniques de France ou de Saint Denis, vol. 1. France, second quarter of 14th century. Source: Royal...
EditorialPotter (Kumhar). Kumhar, the potter caste of the Panjab. Tashrih al-aqvam, an account of origins and occupations of some of the sects, castes and tribes of India. Written at Hansi Cantonment, Hissar District, eighty-five miles north-west of Delhi for C...
EditorialIskandar visiting the hermit in his cave. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of Nezami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). Herat, Afghanistan; 1535-1540. Shelfmark: Add. 25900 Page Folio Number: f.250v.
EditorialIskandar visiting the hermit in his cave. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of Nezami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). Herat, Afghanistan; 1535-1540. Shelfmark: Add. 25900 Page Folio Number: f.250v.