I added the HOON (omicron, omega, and nu - 'He Who is') lettering today.
Makes a difference, I think.
Thursday, 22 September 2011
The True Icon-Lettering done
I added the HOON (omicron, omega, and nu - 'He Who is') lettering today.
Makes a difference, I think.
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Sarina QLD
The people I saw today were Hobbits. Barefooted and thick-waisted. Not the wealthiest ones though. And life must be a some rather bad dream to them -I guess
Monday, 8 August 2011
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Ceci n'est pas Ayers Rock
Nor is it Uluru, but Mount Coolum (QLD) is essentially a similar shape.
Less iconic perhaps, but still enormouslyinpressive to me.
The name would appear to be derived from local Aboriginal word "gulum" or "kulum", meaning "blunt" or "headless", referring to the shape of Mount Coolum, which has no peak. According to Aboriginal legend, Ninderry knocked off Coolum's head and it fell into the ocean and is now Mudjimba Island
[http://www.library.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/sitePage.cfm?code=coolum]
http://www.coolum.com.au/display_listing.asp?id=556&catid=229
Saturday, 23 July 2011
Membra disiecta
I bought this vellum-bound Concilium Tridentinum/Index Librorum Prohibitorum more than 20 years ago on a book fair in Amsterdam.
There were scraps of parchment from an earlier manuscript on the inside, which had been used to sow the sections on, thus producing a book block. In addition, it contains pieces of a text printed in italics on vellum. These Membra disiecta can be quite difficult to identify, but these were easy to google.
Codex I
Vellum scraps app 48 mm wide
Partial transcription: [...]iti sunt. Qni ego i[...] meus in co[...]
matches with:
Vulg. Ps 37:17-18
...et dum commoventur pedes mei,
super me magna locuti sunt.
18 Quoniam ego in flagella paratus sum,
et dolor meus in conspectu meo semper.
KJV 38:16-17 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me:
when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Partial transcription: [...]magna ecce labia[...]
matches with:
Vulg. Ps 39:9
...adnuntiavi iustitiam in ecclesia
magna ecce labia mea non prohibebo Domine tu scisti
KJV 40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:
lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
About Membra disiecta
Codex II
Pieces of printed vellum, which would suggest an incunabulum or post-incunabulum.
Below: Loose vellum slip [no longer interlaced]
transcription: *ten*
Top headband
transcription: ?le-/nis /in [or de-]
transcription: ?le-/nis /in [or de-]
tail headband
transcription: ** pr/quám / Le
The type used is clearly Italic, not unlike early Garamond as it appears to me.
The book proper, opened on title page with membra disjecta visible.
Published Cologne, Germany 1664.
Hand-written Ex-libris on title page, name struck through:
Ex libris B. S**ellmayr
Hand-written Ex-libris on left endpaper:
Ex libris Ioannis Fransisci/Wagner IV[=JU] Doctoris
Bookblock dim. app. 177x109x44 mm
Laced vellum binding.
Printed contents of the book.
Note Martin Luther [as Martinus Lutherus] banned.
Published Cologne, Germany 1664.
Hand-written Ex-libris on title page, name struck through:
Ex libris B. S**ellmayr
Hand-written Ex-libris on left endpaper:
Ex libris Ioannis Fransisci/Wagner IV[=JU] Doctoris
Bookblock dim. app. 177x109x44 mm
Laced vellum binding.
Printed contents of the book.
Note Martin Luther [as Martinus Lutherus] banned.
Literature:
JMM Hermans, Het Middeleeuwse boek in Groningen, verkenningen rond fragmenten van handschrift en druk
Groningen : Universiteitsbibliotheek Groningen, 1980.
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