Illuminating Cambridge worldwide
07 Mar 2014Arts Council England grants £87,582 to create online digital archive of Fitzwilliam Museum manuscripts.
Arts Council England grants £87,582 to create online digital archive of Fitzwilliam Museum manuscripts.
Illuminated manuscripts are revealing their secret histories thanks to the application of techniques more commonly found in scientific laboratories.
In the first of a new series of short articles exploring images from around the University, we look at the 12th-century Bury Bible from the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College.
Art historian Professor Paul Binski describes his ventures into the gold-embellished world of illuminated manuscripts.