The New York Public Library Digitizes Centuries - Old Hebrew Manuscripts (NYPL) Fascinating collection of late medieval and
early modern manuscripts, including a couple on Kaballah.
Dr Claire Breay, Head of Ancient, Medieval and
Early Modern Manuscripts at the British Library, said: «The British Library's medieval collections are world - renowned and it's very exciting to be opening up the Library's collections of early literary history to young learners through Discovering Literature.
Not exact matches
Then, by looking at the existing
manuscripts today, and piecing together what we have and comparing it to a
modern Bible such as the NASB, it is not hard at all to see that the Bible that we hold in our hands today is the same doc.ument quoted by the
early church fathers who researched and verified all that they could.
'' «We are going to win a Nobel Prize,» I breathed.As they stay up all night to read the 9th - century Codex, it spills answers to all the burning questions of the thinking Camino pilgrim, including: Is there any chance at all that a Middle Eastern Jew's bones are in a crypt in Santiago de Compostela, Spain?Why, in the cathedrals along the Camino, are there so many portraits of St. James riding his horse over people?Did the legend of James in Spain — and the nation of Spain, sort of — really begin with a scribal error in an old
manuscript — the
modern equivalent of a typo?We're spirited to
early 800s northwestern Spain, where King Alfonso II is in a pickle.
The city also contains a wealth of more
modern, but no less impressive, buildings; the Teatro Grande opera house was built in honour of Napoleon Bonaparte, and this is reflected in the richly decorated interiors, whilst the Biblioteca Queriniana contains a number of rare
manuscripts, including some
early works by Dante.
With
earlier series, Xie has painted
manuscripts and rare books from university and museum collections, such as the Museum of
Modern Art and the Frick Art Reference Library.
The 2017 edition sees the return of some of the world's most significant galleries, including, among many others: Old Master and
Early Modern specialists Jean - Luc Baroni, Bacarelli Botticelli, Johnny van Haeften, Colnaghi, Sam Fogg, Kunstkammer Georg Laue, Richard Nagy,); leading 20th century galleries Acquavella, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Lévy Gorvy, and David Zwirner; renowned antiquities dealers Ariadne Galleries and David Ghezelbash Archéologie; specialists in rare books and illuminated
manuscripts Dr Jörn Gunther Rare Books and Les Enluminures; tribal dealers Entwistle Gallery and specialists in Indian and Islamic art Prahlad Bubbar; and photography galleries Bruce Silverstein and Galerie Daniel Blau.
These collections are massive: more than 200,000 printed materials in the library's rare books and
early manuscripts collection; more than 250 collections within the
modern manuscripts collection; and one of the world's largest collections of law - related art and visual materials.
Without Cappelli's Lexicon, it would be impossible for
modern readers of
early manuscripts to understand what is written or referred to, even if we can read the letters.