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Northumberland Bestiary
The Northumberland Bestiary is an illuminated manuscript bestiary, dating to around 1250-1260 and containing 112 miniature paintings. It may have been produced in northern England - its miniatures are directly inspired by a 1200-1210 bestiary now in the British Library (Royal MS 12 C XIX).''Pen and Parchment'', p.144-145 Its first known owner was Robert Turges, a gentleman in Melcombe Regis, Dorset around 1508-1509, as shown on folio 73. It was later owned by Grace Fitzjames (died 1725), also in Dorset. It was inherited by the Dukes of Northumberland (hence its name) and held at Alnwick Castle until being sold at Sotheby's in London on 29 November 1990 for £2.97 million to a private buyer. It was finally acquired by its present owner, the J. Paul Getty Museum, in June 2007. See also *List of most expensive books and manuscripts This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Naming The Animals - Google Art Project
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Book of Genesis, Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including ''adam'', meaning humankind; in God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the Garden of Eden, and forms a woman, Eve, as his helpmate; in Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death; deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and lists his descendants from Seth to Noah. The Genesis creation myth was adopted by both Christianity and Islam, and the name of Adam accordingly appears in the Christian scriptures and in the Quran. He also features in subsequent folkloric and mystical elaborations i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
