Within our small, but perfectly formed, collection of ‘oriental’ manuscripts, is a fine copy of the Shahnameh, an epic poem written by the Persian poet… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 19: the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
On Thursday, 1 November 2012, a day conference dedicated to Andrew Lang will be held in Upper College Hall, St Salvator’s Quad, University of St… Read More »Andrew Lang (1844-1912): a Centenary Celebration
This very pretty little prayer book was probably part of a book of hours originally; these contained simplified versions of church liturgy to facilitate private… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 16: the Office for the Dead with other devotional works
On 27 July 1822 – 190 years to the day before this post is written – Thomas Moody set off from Paris to begin a… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 10: the Moody Journal, romantic and beautiful
“Drawings made by a black fellow at Corowa New South Wales June 1886. His name I do not know. By the whites he goes by… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 7: ‘Drawings made by a black fellow at Corowa New South Wales June 1886’
John Read, who was Professor of Chemistry in the University of St Andrews for all of 40 years, from 1923 to 1963, had an avid… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 4: Weird and Wonderful Alchemical Illustrations
***For a full update on this conundrum, see this post from 12 March 2012.*** This is the first folio of a beautiful, mid 14th century… Read More »Cataloguer’s conundrum: Can anyone identify this 14th century Italian motif?
