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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Benim Adım Kırmızı	Orhan Pamuk	My Name Is Red (Turkish: Benim Adım Kırmızı) is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in 2001. The novel, concerning miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire of…	OL1019598W
Itinerarium	Sir John Mandeville	227, [1] p. : 22 cm	OL1130830W
Peintures et initiales de la première [et seconde] Bible de Charles le Chauve	Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des manuscrits.	Title translated is "Paintings and initials from the First (and Second) Bible of Charles the Bald."	OL11598469W
The Heretic's Wife	Brenda Rickman Vantrease	Tudor England is a perilous place for booksellers Kate Gough and her brother John, who sell forbidden translations of the Bible. Caught between warring factions—English Catholics opposed to the Luthe…	OL15044499W
The Sailor Who Captured the Sea	Deborah Nourse Lattimore	A sailor continues the work of others in creating the illuminated Book of Kells.	OL15215313W
The ink garden of brother Theophane	C. M. Millen	In medieval Ireland, Theophane's boredom with his duties as a scribe distracts the other monks, but when he is sent to the kitchens he discovers that he can make inks of many colors from plants, allo…	OL15639739W
T Þ¿±t Þ♯±-n♯ma	Pramod Chandra	2 v. : 25 cm	OL19048157W
The benedictional of St Æthelwold	Andrew Prescott	Full-color facsim. of the 10th-century ms. benedictional of Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester (British Library Add. MS 49598)	OL19161443W
Illuminating women in the medieval world	Christine Sciacca	"When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In …	OL19725869W
Apocalypse illuminated	Richard Kenneth Emmerson	"Studies the illustration of Revelation in manuscripts from the ninth to the fifteenth century. Examines how twenty-five of the most important illustrated Apocalypses illustrate the biblical text and…	OL19740077W
La peinture en France au début du XVe siècle: Le maître des heures du ...	Paul Durrieu,comte Paul Durrieu	Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.	OL19811766W
Script as image	Jeffrey F. Hamburger	In the Middle Ages, writing conveyed far more than information. In contradistinction to the modern separation of image and text and, by implication, form and content, which was reified with the inven…	OL22329301W
The illuminated soul	Aryeh Lev Stollman	"Drawing on such diverse sources as the anatomy of the vertebrate brain, the Bible and Jewish legends, Japanese pictography and literature, and the ancient languages of the Near East, The Illuminated…	OL2617404W
Valère Maxime en français à la fin du Moyen Âge	Dubois, Anne (Art historian)	"Dans la seconde moitié du XVe siècle, de nombreux textes latins furent traduits en langue vernaculaire en France. C'est le cas des Facta et dicta memorabilia de Valère Maxime dont la traduction fut …	OL28591528W
Dreams of subversion in medieval Jewish art & literature	Marc Michael Epstein	Europe's Jewish minority culture was subjected to a barrage of public images proclaiming the dominance of the Christian majority. This book is the first to explore the Jewish response to this assault…	OL3257423W
The book of ornamental alphabets, ancient and mediaeval, from the eighth century	Freeman Delamotte	"An idiosyncratic, personal selection of over fifty scripts and typefaces [for] anyone with an interest in lettering, from designers and artists to tattooists, hand-letterers, and calligraphers"--Bac…	OL5527405W
Music in medieval manuscripts	Nicolas Bell	"Music was an important element of cultural life throughout the Middle Ages. Most of our knowledge of medieval music comes from surviving manuscripts, almost all of them connected in some way with th…	OL5999414W
Leonardo	Carlo Pedretti,Kunster,Erfinder,Wissenschaftler,Michael Desmond,Leonardo da Vinci	Bill Gates bought the Codex Leicester a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific observations and theories in 1994 from the estate of Armand Hammer for $30.8 million. Last year Gates loaned the wor…	OL695408W
Decamerone	Giovanni Boccaccio	ENTERTAINING ROMANTIC STORIES OF YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN FLEEING THE BLACK DEATH IN ITALY AND, AS A RESULT, TAKE TURNS TELLING ROMANTIC STORIES EACH EVENING DURING THEIR 10 DAY FLIGHT.	OL7180368W
Ecriture et enluminure des manuscrits du IXe au XIIe siècle	Paul Blanchon-Lasserve	A textbook about calligraphy and illumination, followed by ten folders with each eight looseleaf color/gold plates of illuminated letters. The textbook has 8 plates, too. Slightly larger than A4, cre…	OL7669830W