Handwritten : ten centuries of manuscript treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin /

Handwritten : ten centuries of manuscript treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin /

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Imprint:Canberra : National Library of Australia, ©2011.
Description:239 pages : color illustrations, music, facsimiles ; 31 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz -- Exhibitions.
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz.
Manuscripts -- Germany -- Berlin -- Exhibitions.
Manuscripts.
Germany -- Berlin.
Exhibition catalogs.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12700079
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Other authors / contributors:Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz.
National Library of Australia.
ISBN:9780642277336
0642277338
Notes:"This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition Ten centuries of manuscript treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, held at the National Library of Australia from 26 November 2011 to 18 March 2012"--Title page verso.
Summary:In an era when the practice, indeed the art, of writing by hand is fast giving way to the keyboard, it is timely to pause and to consider the volume of words penned on paper over time. Handwritten: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Treasures traces the lives and thoughts, problems and solutions, inspirations and creative endeavours of some of the worlds greatest thinkers, innovators and artists. From a late ninth-century fragment of Virgils epic poem the Aeneid to a beautifully decorated manuscript of Dante Alighieris The Divine Comedy, from Galileos letter to a colleague and former pupil to Florence Nightingales practical advice for an English politician, this publication captures memorable moments spanning the medieval era to today.

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