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Richard Taruskin, eminent musicologist, theorist, and music historian, and one of the critics of the Early Music Movement.

Intellectual Content: Graphesis is a scholarly study of ways that our culture represents information through visual representations and understands (or takes in) information through visual representations. Graphesis traces a history of…

British Library Ms. Harley 3954, created in England, in East Anglia, in the second quarter of the fifteenth century (British Library Catalogue entry, Harley 3954, Detailed Record). The Book of John Mandeville that appears in this manuscript is in…

Sir John Mandeville sets off on his travels to Jerusalem and beyond, Harley 3954 f2. In the margin, the red subtitle just under the picture reads "Who mad this bok" ("who made this book").

Sir John Mandeville, travelling, contemplates the geography of the way to Jerusalem (Danube), Harley 3954 f2

Sir John Mandeville watches a griffin carry away an armed knight and his horse, Harley 3954 f. 54v

The Amazons are a nation of “noble and wise” warrior women who, according to Mandeville, do not permit men to rule their kingdom or even live among them for longer than seven days.

Sciopods are people who have only one leg and foot, so large that it can shade them from the sun.

Cynocephales are dog-headed people.

The marvellous races included here are cyclops (one-eyed giants); cannibalistic giants; and blemmyae (people who have no heads, and whose eyes, noses, and mouths appear on their chests).

Harley 3954, f. 13v, depicts the pilgrim, in an attitude of devotion, in the presence of Mary and Jesus in Bethlehem.

Harley 3954, f. 14r, invites the reader to be a spectator and participant in the Angel’s annunciation to the shepherds; the shepherds’ backs, foregrounded and turned to the reader, situate the reader within that congregation.

Harley 3954, f. 21v, interweaves the geography of the Holy Land with biblical quotations, setting these out in red to draw the reader’s attention

In Harley 3954 f. 3, the city of Constantinople and its statues and monuments are depicted, here, with the watching pilgrim.

Harley 3954 f. 46 depicts the lavish palace of the Great Khan, described--among others--by Franciscan travellers to the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century, and gleefully described and ornamented by the Mandeville-narrator (Campbell 124-127).

"Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with David harping, miniature of the Virgin and Child in the lower margin, with a monkey" (British Library Illuminated Manuscripts Catalogue)

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Through conversations with early-music performers, Nicholas Kenyon summarizes the the early-music movement and the debate as to whether early music should be performed with contemporary instruments or modern instruments.

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A recording by Canadian musician Peter Pringle demonstrating a portative organ in action.