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Frontispiece: When He Comes He will Rule over the Whole World The Lost Boy (1913)

“At last, [Hillel] said: “It is better to hope and to wait patiently for Him than to reckon the day of His coming. For if the reckoning is wrong, and He does not come, then men despair, and no longer [...]

Keywords: religion, people, children, bare feet, people, beards, scholars, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine

Added: 2007-05-16

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Title page detail: Scholarly King Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

In this detail from the title page, a king (wearing a crown) sits at a table with a pen and an open book, and is also consulting a dictionary. He sratches his head, obviously baffled.

Keywords: cartoons, scholars, books, royalty, humour, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-10

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37.—Writing My Master’s Words La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The poet sits at a writing desk let by a candle. The image is printed in black and gold. “I resolved that I would make a ditty, before I left my chamber, according to the words my master had spoken.” [...]

Keywords: scholars, pictures of books, candles, colour, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-12-20

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37.—Writing My Master’s Words (detail) La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The central part of the picture on page 37 showing the mediaeval scholar writing a manuscript at his desk with his quill pen (a feather trimmed, slitted and used for writing) in his hand.

Keywords: scholars, pictures of books, candles, mediaeval, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-12-20

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Untitled image, Mediaeval tower La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Untitled image; a man (the protagonist) sits outside a mediæval castle tower. He wears red boots and a long robe, a medieval scholar’s dress perhaps, and in the background a lady spares him a glance. [...]

Keywords: towers, people, scholars, christmas, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-21

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Initial Capital Letter “A” With Scholars Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

This historiated decorative initial “A” was used as a drop cap, or dropped capital, at the start of a chapter. It shows two people wearing hats and robes and I think soft turned-down boots, reading bo [...]

Keywords: lettera, initials, scholars, books, hats, people, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-26

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Painted miniature: a writer, with a castle in the background Book of Hours, Ms. Library of Congress. Rosenwald ms. 10 (1533)

I suspect this is a complex emblem painting. A man with long curly hair sits barefoot on the grass, wearing a blue robe and with a red and gold cloak on his lap. He gazes heavenward for inspiration, [...]

Keywords: colour, scholars, angels, castles, bare feet, people, mediaeval, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-01

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Miniature painting of a scribe writing at a desk Book of Hours, Ms. Library of Congress. Rosenwald ms. 10 (1533)

A Mediæval (OK, Medieval in America) miniature painting taken from a Latin book of hours. A bearded scribe uses a quill pen to write in a book that rests on a wooden writing desk. He wears a blue gow [...]

Keywords: colour, scholars, people, books, angels, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-01

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Evangelist with lion Book of Hours, Ms. Library of Congress. Rosenwald ms. 10 (1533)

A bearded man, perhaps in his thirties or forties, sits holding a book in his lap; to his left is a writing stand with an open manuscript; he holds a quill pen to his eye. There is a lion behind him, [...]

Keywords: colour, people, art, animals, windows, writing, pictures of books, religion, scholars, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-29

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The late Philip Bailey in his study at the Rope Walk, Nottingham The Leisure Hour (1904)

An elderly gentleman with white hair and a white beard sits at a writing desk, pen in hand, gazing out of the window, lost in thought. “Seldom has a poet come as near to absolute greatness, as Bailey [...]

Keywords: people, scholars, interiors, writing, greyscale

Places shown: Nottingham; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2006-05-13

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62m.—Initial capital letter “M” from Dance of Death Alphabet. Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This decorative initial letter “M”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It shows a doctor of physician in his study or laboratory, holding up a vessel. Beh [...]

Keywords: letterm, initials, scholars, people, death, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-05

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Helpless Pieces of the Game he Plays The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1905)

In the picture, an old white-bearded man wearing a green robe and headband is holding one hand aloft and beckoning with the other. LXV The Revelations of Devout and Learn’d   Who rose before us, and [...]

Keywords: scholars, colour, people, beards

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-19

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