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Front Cover from La Vita NuovaLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

There is also a rather plain dust jacket, not shown here.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2005-11-16

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37.—Writing My Master’s WordsLa 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

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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

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Added: 2005-12-20

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Untitled image, Mediaeval towerLa 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

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Added: 2006-04-21

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Osanna in ExcelsisLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The phrase, Osanna in Excelsis (moer commonly written in English, Hosanna in Excelsis) in the form of a giant “E” with a decorative initial letter “O” containing angels, and a smaller E-within-the-e i [...]

Keywords: christmas, initials, angels, lettering, calligraphy, colour

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Added: 2010-12-20

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103. Sonnet Introduction PageLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Full page image. In the decoration, the angel, presumably representing love, is beckoning towards the writer. The text reads as follows: This sonnet has many parts: whereof the first tells how I felt [...]

Keywords: colour, page images, angels

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Added: 2005-11-13

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Sonnet Introduction BorderLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The border and decoration from page 103. An angel, wearing a toga, but with bare feet and bare-legged, beckons to the writer, depicted as a monk with a robe and medieval pointed shoes. I included fai [...]

Keywords: monks, angels, robes, borders, colour

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Added: 2005-11-13

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115. Love Hath So Long Possessed MeLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Full page image showing the sonnet and also the decoration. I have scanned the angel separately, as the next image. Love hath so long possess’d me for his own And made his lordship so familiar That he [...]

Keywords: page images, colour, angels, christmas

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Added: 2005-11-13

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Angel from page 115La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The angel from page 115. The angel carries a music book (I think, or possibly a harp), and kneels with hands clasped as if in prayer. He wears a white robe and has golden wings. I cut out this detail [...]

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Added: 2005-11-13

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51.—Serving at a BanquetLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Two men, servants, wearing mediæval outfits with hose (tights) and hats, proceed presumably to a banquet, one with a flask and one with a pie. Overhead, cherubs play musical instruments. In the backgr [...]

Keywords: people, mediaeval, castles, battlements, food, servantspeople, christmas, colour

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Added: 2012-12-25

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Two cherubs play flute and violinLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A detail from Fig. 51, two winged cherubs sit playing musical instruments, one a twin pipe and the other a bowed instrument like an early violin.

Keywords: music, cherubs, bare feet, nudity, romance, christmas, musical instruments, greyscale

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Cherub with TriangleLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A detail from Fig. 51, a winged cherubs sits playing a musical instrument, a triangle. He is naked, and his eyes glance to one side. He has a curl of hair.

Keywords: music, cherubs, bare feet, nudity, romance, christmas, musical instruments, angels, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2012-12-25

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Servant with FoodLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A young man wearing hose, a doublet and a helmet or tall hat is carrying a plate, perhaps with a pie or even a roast chicken. He is gong to serve at a mediæval banquet.

This is a detail from Fig. 51.

Keywords: people, food, servants, costumes, greyscale

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Added: 2012-12-25

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Border with troubadors and drolleriesLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Three-quarter page foliated border, printed in gold-coloured ink, featuring three anthopomorphic dog-men (increasingly dog-like from left to right), a demon or satyr, a two-headed drollery or Janus, a [...]

Keywords: borders, drolleries, people, mythical creatures, colour

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Added: 2011-04-02

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Border detail: two-faced drolleryLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A drollery; these were strange and grotesque creatures placed in the margins of manuscripts by mediaeval scribes. This one is from 1910, in imitation of mediaeval drolleries. It is a creature with a f [...]

Keywords: drolleries, mythical creatures, colour

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Added: 2011-04-02

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Border detail: Satyr or horned devilLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A drollery; these were strange and grotesque creatures placed in the margins of manuscripts by mediaeval scribes. This one is from 1910, in imitation of mediaeval drolleries. It is a devil, or satyr, [...]

Keywords: drolleries, mythical creatures, colour, devils, occult

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Added: 2011-04-02

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Calligraphic initial leter TLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

This decorative initial “T” was used a drop cap. It has been drawn in a mediaeval calligraphic style, and was printed in a reddish-yellow ink, a sort of gold colour. I cannot say for certain whether [...]

Keywords: initials, lettert, yellow, gold, colour, calligraphy

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Added: 2010-12-18

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Spirit Angels of PeaceLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

And I seemed to look towards Heaven, and to behold a multitude of angels who were returning upwards, having before them an exceedingly white cloud: and these angels were singing together gloriously, a [...]

Keywords: angels, bare feet, religion, christmas, windows, borders, colour

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Added: 2010-12-17

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Border with initial letter ALa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A decorative border in a mediaeval vine-leaves style, with an initial capital lettter A with a small dragon on one side. You could use the A as a drop cap by itself if you wanted, or you could edit it [...]

Keywords: borders, lettera, initials, dragons, gold, yellow, colour

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Added: 2008-09-13

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Angel playing the harp, attended by deerLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A hind, a stag, a pair of rabbits and two birds are listening to this winged angel playing the harp, in a decorative pice full of vine-leaves. The angel is naked except for a loin-cloth and is barefo [...]

Keywords: angels, animals, ornaments, decorations, bare feet, wallpaper, backgrounds, christmas, colour

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Added: 2008-09-14

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