Illuminated manuscripts

Medieval medicine in illuminated manuscripts

interesting comments by earlier owners and readers. There are two appendices, one of documents, the other an up-to-date catalogue of Giovanni's manuscripts that supersedes those by Zazzeri and by Baader. Detailed attention is given to matters codicological, although information on Giovanni's scribes is not always easy to locate in the dense entries. Splendid photographs, of the library, of Giov...

The aesthetics of texts: medieval illuminated manuscripts.

Books, as we know them today, emerged from earlier records made successively on tablets, papyrus, and scrolls. Around the 4th century, the first form of a book appeared: a codex written on parchment (sheepskin). A more sophisticated form, the illuminated manuscript (text supplemented with decoration) created on vellum (calfskin) succeeded the codex after the fall of the Roman Empire. It remaine...

Chemical study of illuminated manuscripts : a non invasive approach

An IT Support for an Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts

The paper reports on a project which envisages the employ of IPSA, an originally high-specialized digital archive and web environment purposely developed for professional researchers in History of Art and History of Illumination, to enrich and complete visitors experience in a forthcoming exhibition of illuminated manuscripts.

Unveiling the invisible - mathematical methods for restoring and interpreting illuminated manuscripts

*Correspondence: [email protected] 3DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, CB3 0WA Cambridge, UK Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract The last fifty years have seen an impressive development of mathematical methods for the analysis and processing of digital images, mostly in the context of photography, biomedical imaging and various forms of e...