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Lit 150 single leaf annotation project Main Menu Estoire del saint graal Example Page Anicia Juliana Codex Vienna, Austrian National Library, Med. Gr. 1 Book of Kells Dublin, Trinity College, MS 58 De Balneis Puteolanis Rome, Bibliotheca Angelica, ms. 1474 Godescalc Gospel Lectionary, fol. 26v Paris, BNF lat.1203 Divinia Comedia, Codex Altonensis Altona, Hamburg, Germany, Christianeum Gymnasium Girona Beatus, fol. 134v Catalonia, Spain, Girona Cathedral Museum, Num. Inv. 7 (11) Aratea University Library at Leiden (Ms. Voss. lat. Q. 79) Li livres dou tresor Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Ms Fr.F.v.III.4 Liber De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis Vienna, Austria National Library, Cod. Vindob. MS 652 The Sarajevo Haggadah, folio 2v & 3r National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina Peterborough Bestiary, f. 190v Cambridge, England, Corpus Christi College, MS 53 Roman d'Alexandre Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Ms 78 C 1 Tractatus de Herbis London, The British Library, Egerton 747 La Divina Comedia, Poggiali Codex Oxford Bible Pictures Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery Ms.W. 106 Theatrum Sanitatis Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome, Italy The Luttrell Psalter Map of Current Locations Map of Places of Creation Timeline

Lit 150 Winter Quarter

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During Winter Quarter 2018 the students enrolled in Literature 150 are working together to prepare and installe an exhibit on the history of the medieval book. The class is held in McHenry Library and taught by Elisabeth Remak-Honnef. The items selected from the University Library’s Special Collections provide a glimpse of what the course attempts to cover in a quarter: a survey of about a thousand years of the evolution of book production and use in Europe. Concentrating primarily on medieval illuminated manuscripts, the class looks at different types of books to examine not only how they were made, for whom they were made, how they were used and how and why they were decorated, but also how they have survived. As part of their coursework, the students have annotated a single leaf from the facsimiles they selected, highlighting some of the codicological elements described above. They are also preparing descriptive captions for a physical exhibit as well as preparing longer essays on their individual manuscripts. During the course of the quarter, they also prepared short reports on such aspects of book production as parchment preparation, pigments and gilding, scripts and paleography, writing materials and binding techniques.

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Lindau Gospel Front Cover