The paper aims at providing a comprehensive description of the manuscript Rampur, Rampur Raza Library 3476 (ḥikma 112), which contains three four main parts Avicenna’s philosophical magnum opus, Kitāb al-Šifāʾ (the Book Cure or: Healing). This documents important developments in history Arabic-Islamic philosophy. First, it attests precise intellectual genealogy within influential Daštakī...

Abstract The Ajuda Songbook is an exceptional illuminated manuscript being the only surviving codex of Galician-Portuguese secular poetry; it was produced in end thirteenth century, beginning fourteenth century. diversity colors accentuated by presence lapis lazuli blue and brazilwood pink, demonstrates desire to produce a sumptuous manuscript. Pink is, this context, luxury color its identifica...

Ever since Hugh Baillie and Philippe Oboussier’s pioneering study of York, Borthwick Institute MS Mus 1, better known as the York Masses, it has been generally accepted that its compositions, if not the choirbook itself, originated elsewhere than York. Two locations claimed primacy in their bid for the manuscript’s original provenance, Lincoln and London, owing to the internal evidence of two c...

While excellent scholarly work exists on medieval space, especially in cultural geography, no book-­length study of the conceptual implications of medieval vertical space exists. Attention has been lavished on the surface of the medieval world, while the heights go unseen and the depths go unplumbed. Using theories of space by scholars such as Henri Lefebvre and Jacques Le Goff, this project ex...

The Museum's collection of ceramics has been greatly enriched recently by the purchase of nearly a hundred examples of Spanish lusterware of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The majority of the pieces are Valencian and were made in the fifteenth century, giving a very thorough picture of the stylistic development of majolica in Spain in its early phases, which had such wide-spread effects...

Tim medieval medical practitioner, like his fellows in every age, was vulnerable to accusations of negligence. The least fortunate, or perhaps the most negligent, might find themselves liable to public prosecution," despite some recognition that treatment was hazardous anyway.2 More commonly, the doctor might face a private lawsuit by a dissatisfied patient; a cursory glance through Talbot and ...