From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V7 #88 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Sunday, March 10 2002 Volume 07 : Number 088 ======================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with unsubscribe scribes-digets in the body of the message. Leave the subject line blank. Do not include any additional text. [scribes]: Suggestions - British Library [scribes]: New Book [scribes]: Of Much Interest RE: [scribes]: Scriptorium in Drachewald [scribes]: Updated Webpage Re: [scribes]: New Book ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:10:08 +0100 From: Subject: [scribes]: Suggestions - British Library Hi Merouda and all definitively the British Library when in London! That's where the manuscripts are on display nowadays, and they have some of the really famous ones out there, e. g. the Bedford Hours, a Beowulf manuscript, and the Lutrell Psalter, Chaucer .... And - shameless advertising ;-) - the Drachenwald Scriptorium in October will get the in-depth behind the screens visit to the University Library in Uppsala and the Royal Library in Stockholm. Oriane Drei Eichen Drachenwald ______________________________________________________________________________ Für alle, die nicht genug WEB.DE bekommen können. 100 MB Speicher, 01212-Nummer und mehr E-Mail unter http://club.web.de/?mc=021101 =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 10:37:34 -0600 From: "Amy L. Hornburg Heilveil" Subject: [scribes]: New Book Publication date is March 2002 from University of Toronto Press. Price is $75 - wish I had that...... Smiles, Despina The Egerton Genesis Mary Coker Joslin and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson British Library Studies in Medieval Culture _ University of Toronto Press © 2001. 7x10 / 256 pp / 16 colour and black and white illustrations North and South American Rights Only Publication Date: 29 December 2001 ISBNBindingPriceUK PriceAvailability 0802047580Cloth$75.00£0.00ACT Availability: NYP = Not Yet in Print. ACT = Active/Available. Out of Print books or editions are not shown. Outside of Canada, price is in US dollars. Price and publication date are subject to change. M.R. James was prompted to characterize the Egerton Genesis as 'the most puzzling, and also, in view of the wonderful qualities of its drawing and colouring, one of the most fascinating' of all manuscripts he had ever seen. Questions of date, iconographical and stylistic character, artist's training, provenance, purpose, and patronage, largely unanswered since James' time, surround this manuscript. The Egerton Genesis is a pictorial narrative of the biblical Genesis, supplemented by legendary material. It was commissioned in the fourteenth century for the entertainment of a middle-class patron and his friends. From the choice and treatment of texts we learn that this was a patron who relished the drama, who did not require a pretence of scholarship or piety, a patron with a keen eye for human and societal defects and with an earthy sense of humour. A theological dimension is largely lacking from the manuscript, though figural references to the Deity in the visual narrative are always reverential. The book does not glorify kingly figures but rather spoofs the stupidity, lust or veniality of the powerful. The artist points out social conditions of his time, sympathizing with the beggar, with the tithe payer and with the problems of powerless women and ordinary shepherds. This study provides valuable new insights into a fascinating text. Mary Coker Joslin is author of The Heard Word: Analized History, The Genesis Section of the Histoire Ancienne in a Text from Saint-Jean D’Acre (1986). Carolyn J. Watson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Furman University. Publication date is March 2002 from University of Toronto Press. Price is $75 - wish I had that...... Smiles, Despina - ---------- Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. - --David O. McKay =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:55:10 -0500 From: "Helen Schultz" Subject: [scribes]: Of Much Interest The following was just announced on Midlaurel and I felt it was of extreme interest to those of us here. I hope Master Talan doesn't mind me using his name... KHvS Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:06:51 -0500 From: "Brian M. Scott" Subject: MIDLAUREL: On-Line Items of Scribal Interest The following two announcements were posted to soc.history.medieval today by Rob Kuijsten. The website Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts presents almost 11000 unique illustrations from 400 illuminated manuscripts from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague, The Netherlands. The website provides a varied array of beautiful illustrations for specialists in Medieval Art as well as for occasional visitors looking for mere pretty pictures. http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/browser/index.html This is a very well-organized site. The Royal Library in the Hague http://www.kb.nl has lately received a very valuable 15th century, illustrated "devotion" book. The value of this manuscript has been estimated abt. 6 million Euro !!! and is a private gift from an anonymous donor. In this prayerbook there are miniatures and other decorations, made by 3 important painters from the 15th century. One of these illustrators is Master of Maria of Bourgondie, the Rembrandt of the medieval book decorators. Right now the book is exposed for the public in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in the Hague (NL), but can also be browsed online !!!! http://www.kb.nl/kb/galerie/trivulzio/index.html Browse (Bladeren) and zoom As you'd expect from the description, this is absolutely gorgeous -- calligraphy, marginalia, illuminations, you name it. Talan =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 23:17:54 -0500 From: AltAndreas100@netscape.net Subject: RE: [scribes]: Scriptorium in Drachewald May I humbly add that if you are going to be in Stockholm and you have any interest at all in naval history of our period - you would be most interested in visiting the WASA - which sank in 1628 on her maiden voyage in the harbor in Stockholm, and was raised and interred in a museum on shore in the early 1970's. Many, many artifacts were raised also, and can be seen in the museum there. This is a 200 foot long, 38 ft wide (beam), 1300 ton excellent example of fighting ships of our day, and very well preserved. Yours in Service, Baron Alt Andreas v. Sohren, OJG, PCS scribe illuminator in the Shire of Heatherwyne, CAID etal, so forth, etc. >Greetings to the Scribes of the Known World > >This is a first information about a 5 day Scriptorium event coming up in October. The Drachenwald Signet Clerk, Lady Signe Sigurdsdotter, email: anna@passoprimo.se, asked me to forward it to you. > >"I will also take this opportunity to let you know that there will be a Drachenwald Scriptorium in Uppsala (Aros) the 14-18 of October 2002. A site is booked, and some teachers, and visits to Uppsala University Library and Royal Library of Stockolm will be organized. The subjects for the classes are so far: distribution in making a scroll, different calligraphy from different time periods, how to apply gold leaf and making a quill pen. The price for the course including full board, teaching and excurtions will be maximum 2500 SEK, approx. 220 US $." > >Last year's scriptorium in England with visits to the Fitzwilliam Museum and the British Library proved so successfull and fun that the scribes in Aros are planning a similar event in the Principality of Nordmark (Sweden). Stockholm's Arlanda airport is located conveniently for travel to both Uppsala and Stockholm and has good public transportation as well. Not to mention all the wonderfull museums in both towns .... > >Updates will follow once more details get finalized. > >Yours, > >Oriane d'Avallon >Drei Eichen >Drachenwald > > > > > > > > >________________________________________________________________ >Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! >Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 > > >=================================================================== >To unsubscribe from this list, send email to >with a blank Subject: line and >unsubscribe scribes >in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in >the body. > > - -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. 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Meeting times, location, dates, projects, gatherings, etc. are now up-to-date. http://nazrynn.8m.com/c_and_i.html Thank you, Lady Kayleigh McWhyte, "Mercenary Scribe" (East) ('Beth Frank, Long Island NY) =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 08:58:03 -0500 From: "Susan Carroll-Clark" Subject: Re: [scribes]: New Book Greetings-- >Publication date is March 2002 from University of Toronto Press. Price is >$75 - wish I had that...... Smiles, Despina >The Egerton Genesis If you, or anyone else is interested and can wait a couple of months, let me know. I go to the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo every year, and they normally have displays by academic presses with order forms at significant discounts. I believe U of T Press normally has a 20-30% discount. I can pick up order forms if folks are interested. Nicolaa =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V7 #88 ****************************