from manuscripts to the modern world - part 2

Common features in manuscripts

Miniature

Historiated initial

Decorated initial

Rubric

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13Le Roman de la Rose (love poem, c. 1330)

Common features in manuscripts

Miniature

Historiated initial

Decorated initial

Rubric

Border

Move on

14Bible – Genesis (Bologna, c. 1265)

Common features in manuscripts

Miniature

Historiated initial

Decorated initial

Rubric

Border

Move on

15Missal (England, c. 1430)

Teaching medieval history using manuscripts

Why use manuscripts?

• Primary source material• Ease of access• Variety of topics and concepts

can be covered with an overarching theme

16Gospels of St Luke and St John (c. 720)

Teaching medieval history using manuscripts

Where can I find them?

• Cultural institutions eg. State Library of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria

• Online • Print

17Book of hours (c. 1435)

Manuscript resources

Online resources:

Medieval Manuscripts Education Resource:

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/explore/student-teacher-resources/medieval-imagination-education-kit

Contains:• Background information• Activities• Resources

Manuscript resources

Online resources:

State Library of Victoria catalgoue

http://search.slv.vic.gov.au

Search for:• ‘Medieval manuscript’• Resrict to online resources

Manuscript resources

Online resources:

Mirror of the World

http://www.mirroroftheworld.com.au/

Contains:• Timeline• Images• Background information• Educational activities

Manuscript resources

Online resources:

Fitzwilliam Museum

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/pharos/sections/making_art/index_manuscript.html

Contains:• Background information• Fact sheets• Education Resources• Interactive program to make a manuscript• Images

Manuscript resources

Online resources:

British Library – Medieval Realms

http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/medieval/medievalrealms.html

Contains:• Background information• Education Activities• Images• Other medieval information and

activities

Manuscript resources

Online resources:

British Library – Manuscript Catalogue

http://prodigi.bl.uk/illcat/welcome.htm

British Library – Turning the pages

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

Contains:• Information and digital images for a large

collection of medieval manuscripts

Manuscript resources

Online resources:

Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/

Contains:• Contextual information

• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

• Images

Manuscript resources

Online resources:

Free Library of Philadelphia

http://libwww.library.phila.gov/medievalman/index.cfm

Contains:• Detailed Information• Images• Resources and Links

Manuscript resources

Online resources:

Philadelphia Museum of Art – Leaves of Gold

http://www.leavesofgold.org/

Contains:• Information• Images• Education Resources

Manuscript resources

Online resources:

Museum of London

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/London-Wall/Whats-on/Galleries/medieval/Games/

Apprentice.htm

Contains:• A bit of fun…

Print based resources:

• The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand. Stocks, B. and Morgan, N. (Eds). 2008. State Library of Victoria, Australia

• The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. Wieck, R.S. 1988. Sotheby’s Publications, UK.

• A Treasury of Hours. Faÿ-Sallois, F. 2002. Getty Publications: USA

Manuscript resources

Print based resources cont’d:

• Discovering Art: Illuminated Manuscript. Gill, D.M. 1996. Brockhampton Press, UK.

• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! – Voices from a medieval village. Schlitz, L.A. 2007. Candlewick Press: Massachusetts, USA.

• Medieval Illuminators and their methods of work. Alexander, J.J.G. 1992. Yale University Press: London, UK.

• The Cambridge Illuminations. Binski, P. & Panayotova, S. (Eds). 2005. Harvey Miller Publishers: London, UK.

Manuscript resources

Image credits

1. National Gallery of Victoria

2. Map of Europe – Georgraphic Guide

http://www.geographicguide.com/europe-map.htm

3. Map of Europe 1360BC – Internet Medieval Sourcebook:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbookmap.html

4. Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne

5. Advantage White Knight – photo by Joits: www.flickr.com • State Library of Victoria• Auckland City Libraries, Special Collections• Syndics of Cambridge University Library• State Library of Victoria • Master and Fellows, Trinity College, Cambridge• University of Sydney • Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge • Master and Fellows, Trinity College, Cambridge• Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne• State Library of South Australia • Master and Fellow of Corpus Christi College • State Library of Victoria

On display at the State Library of Victoria from 9 March – 1 July 2012

Preview video: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/node/3654

School programs for primary and secondary

•exhibition tour

•Persian puppets

•Comic Life

•extended calligraphy workshop (120min, same price as 90min workshop)

Teacher preview evening, free, 20 March 2012, 5.30 – 7.30pm

Online education resource and website launch 14 February 2012