The Sherborne Missal: Turning the Pages

Browne, Michelle

ISBN 10: 0712343210 ISBN 13: 9780712343213

Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division, 2002

Synopsis

This CD-ROM enables the user to view the pages of "The Sherborne Missal" - one of the British Library's greatest treasures. The Sherborne Missal was produced around 1400 CE for Sherborne Abbey in Dorset. Unusually for a manuscript of the period, it includes a -large number of British birds in the decorative borders. The user can click and drag the mouse to turn the pages forward or backward, and there are print and zoom facilities. Text about each page is included alongside the manuscript, and the CD-ROM includes and extensive essay by Michelle Brown, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library, explaining the history and significance of the Sherborne Missal. Thirty two pages have been digitised, plus the cover, and the text is available as large print, and as audio. It also features bird sounds and the music of the period

About this title

About the Author

Michelle Brown is Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at The British Library. Her previous publications include The Book of Cerne (UTP 1996), and The Historical Source Book for Scribes (with Patricia Lovett, UTP 1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0712343210
• ISBN 13: 9780712343213
• Binding: CD-ROM
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1