... of mercantile imperialism that marked the discovery of the natural beauties of the New World. Yet, within the historical moment in which it played, the halcyon cure that this aging conquistador desired serves as a miniature parable that can reconfigure what is by all means a trivial colonialist narrative...

... colored depictions of local fashions in dress and various regional customs witnessed while traveling. Along with these miniatures, the album combines sententious mottoes, heraldic shields, and personalized inscriptions from friends met during one's travels. The album owner and friends display their newly...

... in the monastic art of this period. The earliest miniatures within this Anglo- Saxon group of visual- izations of Ephesians –  belong to the so- called Galba Psalter (British Library, MS Cotton Galba A.xviii), a manuscript originally produced prob- ably in the region of Liège in the early ninth...

... beehives were purchased by virtuosi, but beehives never made it as the miniature polities each English village should both own and observe, not only to harvest honey for the market but to serve as utopian models of Campbell / Busy Bees  629 good...

...Figure 7. MS Bodley 264, fol. 75v detail (miniature). Photo © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. ...

... Laramie, Wyoming Esther Inglis (1571–1624), the miniaturist, embroiderer, calligrapher, trans- lator, and self-described “writer,” produced nearly sixty known calligraphic manuscripts bound as small, usually miniature, books. These books fre- quently consist of a central pious text placed within...

... of the Turks], a manuscript in the Marciana library in Venice that consists of sixty- two miniatures of Ottoman costumes (see figs. 1 – 2, and 12, 14, 18 below).1 Although painted by an Ottoman artist, the vestments are identified by Ital- ian captions, indicating the manuscript was produced for a foreign...

... manipulated by Renaissance people, which they made and which therefore not only made up their physical environment but which constrained and contextualized their own sense of bodily existence. Miniature manuscript books by a woman, new-fangled glass mirrors, imported silk, printed sheets pasted on particu...

... that the picture of the archer was the portrait of Gower.29 Plimpton is being assured that he made a wise purchase; he may have only the dream miniature (rather than an author miniature), but the Vox minia- ture cannot be Gower (at least as taken from life) because it is too late.30 Plimpton’s manuscript...

... Gower's Vox clamantis , a long Latin philippic begun around 1378 and revised over the subsequent decades, open with large color illustrations of an elegantly dressed archer, his longbow tensed and targeting a suspended globe. The colossal miniatures found a distinguished place near the start of carefully...

... what collec- tors today refer to as “Miniature Speeds”: palm-­sized atlases that were free from most of the visual embellishments and lexical apparatuses that weighed down their folio counterparts.27 Their affordability linked with their vis- ible presence in the shared spaces of everyday life...

... passively and aimlessly, without reason or purpose. But on the other hand, the couplet, even when placed in a paratactic string, often connotes epigrammatic wisdom, a miniature moment of extractable value and tied-off reversal for readers. Whether that's its own type of growth or an emblem of readerly...

... for collecting specimens of medieval miniatures among late eighteenth-­century bibliophiles.31 Eighteenth-­century users of Cosin’s copy of the 1462 Mainz bible left their mark on the book in a more singular manner. Between 1594 and 1613, sixteen choristers of the Church of the Holy Cross (Heilig...

...–9; and L. Thompson, Romans and Blacks, Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture, vol. 2 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989), 49–53, 57–61. 2 See O. von Gebhardt, The Miniatures of the Ashburnham Pentateuch (London, 1883). I have addressed...

... in the Eternal City. London: Lawrence King Publishing, pp.; color plates. Pappe, Bernd, and Juliane Schmieglitz- Otten, eds. Miniaturen der Barock- zeit aus der Sammlung Tansey / Miniatures from the Baroque Period in the Tansey Collection. München: Hirmer Verlag, pp.; color plates. [Catalogue...

... painter to Mary of Hungary) and his son Lucas entered royal service. Hans Holbein followed. In 1546, Levina Teerlinc, a miniatur- ist and illuminator, also emigrated to England. She was granted an annuity of £40 to work in Mary’s court producing miniature portraits every year as New Year’s gifts...

... musical scrollwork can mean. Drawing is of the most immediate relevance to the undulating musical line. Writing about the ideal conditions for a sitting for a portrait miniature in his unpublished manuscript treatise of ca. 1600, Nicholas Hilliard recommended music in order to “shorten the time...

... curricular topics like hypallage, irony, and comparisons. 42 These grammar-school topics, alongside a veritable miniature masterpiece in comparison to most geographical diagrams, indicates that the manuscript's wealthy reader either had a proclivity for copying academic notes in classical poems...

... is likewise rooted in the nature of her evidence, which she describes as a “miniature parable.” But for Finucci the challenge of telling the story of Marcobruno, an “unknown apothecary” in the service of Vincenzo Gonzaga I, fourth Duke of Mantua and Monferrato, is in identifying the intricate networks...