Sentence examples for spectacular manuscript from inspiring English sources

Only one exists; it is a mere fragment of the original; and many of its finest pages are at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in one of the more spectacular manuscript shows of recent New York seasons.

Through innovative use of oral history and folklore maintained for centuries by Native Americans, as well as original use of spectacular manuscript atlases, paintings that depict on-the-spot European representations of nature, and texts that circulated imperfectly across the ocean, he reveals how the encounter between the old world and the new changed the fate of millions of individuals.

Farnese also commissioned, from Giulio Clovio, a spectacular illuminated manuscript known as the "Farnese Hours".

Today, it is home to the iconic Book of Kells, a spectacular illuminated manuscript from the Middle Ages.

The exhibition includes spectacular illuminated manuscripts from collections including the British Library and Lambeth Palace, a Shakespeare first folio from Cambridge university, and French loans including the mail shirt of Charles VI, who was not at the battle because he was mentally unfit, and the spectacular jewelled ring of John the Fearless, his regent, which has come from the Louvre.

So are some spectacular illuminated manuscripts, minute and colossal, and objects that carry the warmth of ordinary life: marriage contracts, postcards and a 13th-century letter from a man in India to his wife in Egypt, assuring her of his unbroken devotion.

Many European libraries have far more spectacular holdings of manuscript maps and early and rare cartographic imprints in just about every category.

He forms his judgements entirely by reading the manuscripts His most spectacular called shot of the season was "The Talley Method".

But the Dome of the Rock, standing on the Temple Mount, is surely Jerusalem's most spectacular site, and the Islamic manuscripts and metallurgy here, you have to feel, are of a whole other order.

One of the most spectacular of these discoveries was a manuscript of Aristotle's Constitution of Athens, found by an American missionary in Egypt in 1890.

On display was a single work of art: a painted manuscript of the "Hamzanama," a spectacular illustrated book commissioned by the sympathetic and notably tolerant Mughal emperor Akbar (1542-1605).