evolution of literacy presentation
DESCRIPTION
on 12th c. shifts in literacy and the power of the writtenTRANSCRIPT
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Greek Scrolls & Manuscripts
on papyrusmostly extant as fragments
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John 4:25 - 4:51 c. 4th century from St. Catherines Monastery, Mt. Sinai, Egyptfrom facsimile of Codex Sinaiticus, published 1911uncial hand
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Latin Manuscripts & Codexes
on parchment
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Prophetess Sibyl
inlaid floor decoration at Duomo di Siena (Cathedral of Siena), Italy
constructed late 12th - early 13th c.
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Portions of Joshua 8th or 9th c. Visigothic minuscule, scriptura continua Spanish
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Glossed text of Mark 15:11-22 c. 1175 - 1199 Carolingian minuscule Swiss from monastery of St. Gall
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Glossed portions of Mark 7 & 9 c. 1185 - 1199 Gothic hand French
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Portions of Matthew extensive marginal & interlinear glossing from Glossa ordinaria c. 13th century Gothic hand French
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Lectionary portion c. 12th century Carolingian minuscule Italian
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Portions of Genesis c. 12th century Gothic hand English
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Sententiae by Isidore of Seville c. 12th century Carolingian miniscule Italian (text originally composed in Hispania)
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Sententiae by Isidore of Seville c. 12th century Carolingian miniscule Italian (text originally composed in Hispania)
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Florilegium (some excerpts referenced as from Isidore of Sevilee & Gelasius) 1040 - 1060 late Carolingian miniscule Italian
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Liber Extra commissioned by Gregory IX c. 1285-1315 Littera bononiensis, gothic, and noting hand Bolgona, Italy
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Liber Extra commissioned by Gregory IX c. 1285-1315 Littera bononiensis, gothic, and noting hand Bolgona, Italy
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The Domesday Book (a.k.a. The Description of England)1086
The Geneva Bible(first Bible with verse numbers, printed in Roman alphabet) c. 1560
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Imaging Scribes
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Jarrow With Cabinetearly 8th c. Hiberno-Saxon
Evangelist St. Mark with his symbol, a winged lion blowing a trumpet, carrying a book698 (or 710-21) Hiberno-Saxon
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Self-portrait of a scribe: Eadwine (monk of Canterbury, the self-proclaimed prince of writers)ca. 1140-1150from the Eadwine Psalter (copy of the Utrecht Psalter) Christ Church, Canterbury
Scriptorium in the tower of Monastery of Tavarafrom the Beatus Manuscripts 1220 Spain
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later images, St. Jerome in his study
(c. 347 420) formative monk-scholartranslator of the Vulgate Bible
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St. Jerome in His Studytempera on panel painting by Master of San Jacopo a Mucciana, Italian, 14th c.
David harping, and St. Jerome writing in St. Hugh's Bible c. 1180 English
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Saint Jerome and the Lionoil painting by Colantonio, c. 1445, Italian
Saint Jerome in His Studyoil painting by Jan van Eyck, c. 1435, Flemish
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Images sourced from:ArtStor (www.artstor.org) The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (www.csntm.org)Digital Scriptorium (www.digital-scriptorium.org)