#manuscript facsimiles

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

We return to our facsimile of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, or Model Book of Calligraphy, written in 1561/62 by Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and illuminated 30 years later by Flemish painter Joris Hoefnagel for the grandson of Ferdinand I, Emperor Rudolph II. The manuscript was produced by Bocskay in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. To complement and augment Bocskay's calligraphy, Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers, and insects to nearly every page, composing them so as to enhance the unity and balance of the page’s design. Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.

Our facsimile was the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It was printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992. 

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[creatureprofessor]

i stand by my childhood self getting mad about Cedric from w.i.t.c.h. dying, bc i was rooting for him to get his scheming shit together and make it thru the redemption arc, emerging as a better guy, and maybe even for him and Orube to start dating fr. i get that the main girls needed some headquarters but he should have respeced into the Villain Turned Weird Friend / Domesticated Villain bracket. he would have let the girls have a club in the basement as long as they don't interrupt his bidding war on ebay for a snakeskin-wrapped antique tome and antique murano glass roses.

[slnecnicepupavky]

My portfolio

[shredsandpatches]

speccoll problems: when your department has been given the special collections exhibit case over Christmas on the strength of the exhibit you personally designed last Christmas, and you (personally) have been asked to put together the one for this year as well but you already used the best possible item last year

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Billy in the Darbies: A Facsimile from the Manuscript of Herman Melville's 'Billy Budd, Sailor', [plate 4], Edited by Dennis Marnon, The Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA, 1991 [From the Collection of William Palmer Johnston. The Grolier Club, New York, NY]

Exhibitions: Melville's Billy Budd at 100, The Grolier Club, September 12 – November 9, 2024; Oberlin College & Conservatory Libraries, Oberlin, OH, November 17 – December 20, 2024

[newt00th]

Le Chansonnier Cordiforme, c. 1470, music manuscript ― facsimile by Vicent García Editores of Valencia, Spain

[thoodleoo]

looking through manuscripts for sale on a facsimile website and sighing longingly

[bitesizedpoetry]

Frieda Hughes, Sylvia Plath's daughter, 41 years after her death, in the Foreword for The Restored Edition of Ariel, Sylvia's poetry collection published posthumously (2004)

[This edition is a facsimile of Plath’s manuscript, reinstating her original selection and arrangement. "Ted Hughes’s controversial arrangement of Plath’s posthumously published Ariel poems resulted in two different editions: the 1965 United Kingdom edition and the subsequent 1966 American edition. Hughes’s tampering with the text, many have argued, denied Plath’s collection the hopeful, transcendent progression from the initial word “love” in “Morning Song” to the concluding “taste of spring” in “Wintering,” the collection’s final poem. His omission of poems such as “The Rabbit Catcher,” “The Jailor,” and “The Other” from Ariel is commonly judged to be an attempt to remove himself from negative scrutiny; this form of censorship continues to outrage many critics and readers." —an excerpt from Kara Kilfoil's review]

[publicdomainreview]

Highlight's from John O. Westwood’s sensational Victorian facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon and Irish medieval manuscripts — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-o-westwoods-facsimiles-of-anglo-saxon-and-irish-manuscripts-1868

[mostlyghostly42]

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[uwmspeccoll]

Manuscript Monday

Shown here are pages from our facsimile of one of the most popular texts of the Middle Ages, Speculum Humanae Salvationis (The Mirror of Human Salvation). The text was written to expound upon the medieval idea of Biblical typology, or the ways in which the Old Testament of the Christian Bible foreshadows its New Testament. This type of book is part of the genre of speculum literature, which was made to record encyclopedic knowledge of a subject within a single book. The popularity of the Speculum led to it being copied many times, and hundreds of copies in several languages remain extant today from the medieval period.

Our facsimile, published in 1973 by the Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt in Graz, Austria in an edition of 72 copies, is from a 14th-cenury Latin manuscript housed in the Benedictine Kremsmünster Abbey Library in Germany, and catalogued as Codex Cremifanensis 243. It is one of the oldest copies of the Speculum.

The pages of the Speculum hold three Old Testament stories corresponding to one New Testament story, along with an astonishing 192 illuminations. While its subject matter is Biblical, we can see the everyday objects and clothing worn in the 14th century, since Biblical characters were dressed in contemporaneous clothing and architecture in the background is from the same period. This gives us an interesting insight into 14th century medieval culture by showing us the objects and places that surrounded these people in everyday life. Throughout the illuminations, some of the faces are smudged out with black ink; this shows viewers that these are the villains in the stories, though I have to say that in most cases, (especially where our poor friend is being sawed in half) it is pretty obvious.

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– Sarah S., Former Special Collections Graduate Intern

[suigenerisstuff]

Excerpt from the Facsimile Manuscript of The Beauty and The Beast

"Being born was my greatest disgrace. Having already paid for this cursed event, I feel entitled to everything."

Clarice Lispector

[harvardfineartslib]

Chag Sameach to everyone celebrating Passover which started this past weekend.

This page comes from our beautiful facsimile of British Library Manuscript Add. MS. 27210. This manuscript, c. 1320, is known as “The Golden Haggadah” due to its extensive and sumptuous illumination.

This page, fol. 15r, portrays Miriam (Moses’ sister), holding a timbrel in the upper right, while the other illustrations portray the preparations for the Passover festival typical of northern Spain in the 14th century: the master of the house distributing matzoh and sweets to the children, the family cleaning thoroughly and making sure there is no leavened bread in the house, and sheep being slaughtered for the Passover feast.

The Golden Haggadah, a fourteenth-century illuminated Hebrew manuscript in the British Museum introduced by Bezalel Narkiss [London] Eugrammia Press [c1970] HOLLIS: 990052544580203941

[gasogene]

would anyone be interested in me transcribing the angels of darkness play by arthur conan doyle? the baker street irregulars were the first to publish it in 2001 (i'm lucky enough to even own a copy); it contains a facsimile of a portion of the manuscript, a complete transcript of the play, and four essays. angels of darkness, essentially, is a retelling of a study in scarlet that instead follows dr. john watson in san francisco, california over utah — and, shockingly, does not include sherlock holmes at all. i have yet to finish it, so i think transcribing it would be a great incentive for me to sit down to do so whilst giving everyone access!

[shredsandpatches]

In addition to the Gough manuscript facsimile I decided to get out the authentic 15th-century Petrarch Canzoniere manuscript to show the prospective grad students. It was definitely a hit.

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Billy in the Darbies: A Facsimile from the Manuscript of Herman Melville's 'Billy Budd, Sailor', [plate 5], Edited by Dennis Marnon, The Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA, 1991 [From the Collection of William Palmer Johnston. The Grolier Club, New York, NY]

Exhibitions: Melville's Billy Budd at 100, The Grolier Club, September 12 – November 9, 2024; Oberlin College & Conservatory Libraries, Oberlin, OH, November 17 – December 20, 2024