Reviel Netz

William Noel

Describes the discovery of the lost works of Archimedes, the great Greek mathematician, as part of a palimpsest from a medieval prayer book created during the thirteenth century, and offers a revealing look at the full range of mathematical discoveries and theories that were found, as well as the technological tools that made it possible.

How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

The Archimedes Codex

Daniel Weiss

The Morgan Picture Bible was designed to bring selected Old Testament stories into the 13th-century, the time of its original audience. The creators' original intention was to make these stories not only powerful and meaningful, but as appealing and entertaining as possible by placing biblical heroes in contemporary castles, cathedrals, and other daily settings. This milestone publication marks the first time this manuscript has been presented to the public unbound and so makes the same stories powerful and informative for today's museum visitor. The volume is beautifully illustrated, evoking the color and richness of the original.

Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible

The Book of Kings

How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

This is a fascinating study of the making of the Harley Psalter, an illustrated manuscript that was produced at Christ Church, Canterbury in the mid eleventh century. Through meticulous observation of over seventy drawings, William Noel analyzes how the artists and scribes interacted with their exemplars in the making of the manuscript. He demonstrates how the Harley Psalter is undoubtedly a crucial work for understanding the development of art, script and book making during the "golden age" of book illumination.

The Harley Psalter

K. van der Horst

Wilhelmina C. M. Wüstefeld

The Utrecht Psalter, one of the great survivals of the Carolingian Renaissance, was made about 820-835 at the Benedictine monastery of Hautvilliers and decorated with 166 dynamic, almost impressionistic pen drawings which are masterly interpretation of the Psalter text. In 1996 it was exhibited in Utrecht, alongside related manuscripts such as the Aachen and Ebbo Gospels, the Byzantine Khludov Psalter and the later English Harly and Eadwine Psalters, copied in Canterbury when the Utrecht Psalter was for some centuries in England. Five scholarly essays, designed for a wide-ranging readership, include a discussion of Carolingian cultural achievements; an analysis of the Psalter itself and its place in the history of book production; an overview of medieval Psalter illustration in both Byzantium and the West; and an exa- mination of the English copies of the Utrect Psalter in the later Middle Ages.

Picturing the Psalms of David

The Utrecht Psalter in Medieval Art

RACHEL E. SCHWARTZ

Encontra-se aqui a verdadeira história do mais importante códex científico - o Palimpsesto de Arquimedes. O códex sobreviveu por mais de mil anos, apesar de todas as circunstâncias adversas. O livro com o texto de Arquimedes teve suas páginas raspadas, recebeu novo texto, foi danificado e permaneceu nas prateleiras de um mosteiro antigo. Resistiu às cruzadas e às guerras mundiais, viajando do oriente ao ocidente.

Codex Arquimedes

James H. Marrow

Christopher De Hamel

Richard A. Linenthal

This book was presented on the occasion of Christopher de Hamel's sixtieth birthday, and celebrates his many accomplishments during his years at Sotheby's and more recently as the Gaylord Donnelley Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Glosses from Friends & Colleagues of Christopher De Hamel

The Medieval Book

Hope Lancaster's world is falling apart-but her career is careening into the fast lane. While she sits at the anchor desk reporting ominous weather her daughter, Jennifer, and husband, Mark, huddle in a closet for protection from a tornado. It gets worse. Earthquakes on the New Madrid fault buckle bridges and drain parts of the Mississippi River. Life grows hectic as the network sends Hope to chase down natural disasters, power blackouts, and suicide bombings. Surely the rapture is near. When her daughter is diagnosed with a virulent strain of leukemia, Hope comes to terms with what the Bible teaches about death. Next assignment: Jerusalem. Meanwhile Hope has been studying Bible teaching on the end times. "Weren't these things supposed to happen after the rapture?" she asks. Slowly she begins to doubt what she was taught. As war breaks out in the Middle East Hope's questions detonate in her father's congregation, provoking a battle between truth and tradition. In this action-packed spiritual thriller you too will discover something new about the second coming of Jesus.

Broken River, Shattered Sky

Mom knows things she shouldn't know. Dad's been telling her secrets. But he's dead. When Mark and his team of software developers board a flight to Los Angeles, their plane is targeted by terrorists. But how did Hope's mom know-even before the missiles hit? One of the victims, an elder in Hope's church, was a business mogul under investigation for accounting fraud. As she uncovers his dark secrets, Hope wonders, Where is he now? In heaven? Or hell? At the same time, strange new sensations are raising hairs on the back of Hope's neck-and questions in her mind about the fate of the dead. In this sequel to Broken River,

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