Our Voices, Our Getty: Reflecting on Manuscripts
Explore a selection of never-before-seen pages from the Museum’s collection of medieval manuscripts, accompanied by personal interpretations by Getty’s 2024 participants in the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship program. Using nature as a theme, interns reflect on issues ranging from their own relationships to the environment to considerations of contemporary ecological issues, reframing and shedding new light on these historic objects.
An exciting new acquisition, a recently-discovered leaf by renowned French manuscript illuminator Jean Bourdichon, will also be on view in the gallery for the first time.
This exhibition is presented in English and Spanish. Esta exhibición se presenta en inglés y en español.
This is a past exhibition.
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Selected Works
Scarlet Turk’s Cap, Rhinoceros Beetle, and Pomegranate, from Model Book of Calligraphy (text in Latin)
1561–62; illumination added 1591–96, Joris Hoefnagel. Watercolors, gold and silver paint, and ink. Getty Museum, Ms. 20 (86.MV.527), fol. 43
The Adoration of Manco Capac, from General History of Peru (text in Spanish)
Completed in 1616, Peruvian. Pen and ink and colored washes. Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XIII 16 (83.MP.159), fol.19
Canon Table Page, from Bible (text in Armenian)
1637–38, Malnazar and Aghap’ir. Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf. Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig I 14 (83.MA.63), fol. 489
A Hedgehog, from Bestiary (text in Latin)
About 1270, French. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink. Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XV 3 (83.MR.173), fol. 79v
Hunters Examining a Deer’s Hoofprints, from Book of the Hunt (text in French)
About 1430–40, French. Tempera colors, gold paint, silver paint, and gold leaf. Getty Museum, Ms. 27 (87.MR.34), fol. 50v
Saint John on Patmos, from Prayer Book of Charles the Bold (text in Latin)
1469, Lieven van Lathem. Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, silver paint, and ink. Getty Museum, Ms. 37 (89.ML.35), fol. 18
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