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Photographer: MIHRAN IRANIAN, (Turkish - Armenian photographer in Constantinople), (1890-19??).MareMagnum

Original photograph of the Entrance of the Bosphorus, taken by M. Iranian. 'Entree du Bosphore. 97: M. Iranian.

1910Very Good French Original sepia-toned photograph printed in a period photograph paper. 19x25 cm. Descriptive text in French. Chipped and tear on margins. Iranian was born in 1890 in Constantinople, Istanbul. It is known that he established his studio in 1891 in Pera district of Constantinople - the center of Armenian cultural and political life. In 1895 he enters into partnership with another photographer by the name of Gugasyan. By 1900s the business seems to have wound down as the images marked with his studio signature don't exhibit any over elements of the new century. Of all the major Armenian studios from Istanbul, Iranian's photographs are the rarest, and less than 300 are known to have survived. Iranian's primary subject was the city of Constantinople, its picturesque landscape, architectural heritage, and the many types of artisans and workers that populated its streets. Using the latest photography techniques, which allowed for very rapid exposures, Iranian captured the bustle of the city streets with remarkable clarity. Teeming with life and movement these images have a remarkable immediacy and documentary veracity quite unlike similar views produced by other photographers of the period. The typical approach for many of Iranian's contemporaries such as Sebah & Joalier or Guillame Berggren was to achieve as clear a picture as possible with perfectly balanced compositions and highly visible details - the hallmark of a 'good' commercial photographer. In contrast, Iranian's street views are full of photographic 'ruptures' - blurred figures in movement, surprised glances of people caught unawares - which give his works the viscerality of snapshots. But above all, Iranian was a master at capturing the mood of a place. Catching the Ottoman capital on the brink of rapid transformation, the photographer aimed to record many of its ancient streets and quarters disappear or change the appearance. Thus, like the Parisian street photography of Atget, Iranian's images are 'nostalgic for the present' that is irrevocably slipping into the past. In his studio, the clientele had the choice of a large range of costumes and props through which the modern urbanite could slip into the role of some long-gone ethnic or street type and become a part of history. It is this sense of melancholy that gives Iranian's photographs their subtle emotional power. This is also perhaps the reason why he was ultimately not as successful as a commercial photographer. Modernity had captured the imagination of the people and the wistful romanticism of Iranian's markedly less spectacular images was fast going out of fashion. The small legacy he has left behind is nevertheless of significance in the history of Near-Easter photography. He was one of the rare Ottoman photographers with an individual and subjective approach, which deserves a proper evaluation.

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C. MeyerMareMagnum

Catalogue des manuscrits notes du Moyen Age conserves dans les bibliotheques publiques de France. Collections d'Alsace, de Franche-Comte et de Lorraine. II. Besancon, Epinal, Metz, Mulhouse, Nancy, Rambervillers, Saint-Die, Saint-Mihiel, Salins-les-Bains, Selestat, Strasbourg, Verdun et Vesoul

2009Paperback, XX+279 p., 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9782503529066. Le present catalogue des manuscrits notes conserves dans les Regions d?Alsace, de Franche-Comte et de Lorraine fait suite au Catalogue des manuscrits notes de la Bibliotheque municipale de Colmar (2006). Il est concu comme un outil d?investigation et de travail au service des historiens, liturgistes, philologues, musicologues et historiens de l?art du domaine medieval. Les quelques 170 livres notes et la cinquantaine de fragments decrits et analyses dans ce volume composent un vaste ensemble sur le fond duquel se detachent les vestiges de l?histoire de la liturgie de la cathedrale de Metz et de quelques abbayes de ce diocese ; la prestigieuse collection de livres liturgiques a l?usage de l?abbaye Saint-Vanne de Verdun et d?autres etablissements religieux de la ville ; quelques temoins epars des abbayes vosgiennes ; les collections franciscaines d?Epinal et de Nancy, enfin un ensemble de livres representatif de la liturgie des dioceses de Besancon et de Strasbourg. Une introduction presentant sommairement les fonds, leur histoire et leurs particularites, eclaire le cadre historique dans lequel ces manuscrits ont vu le jour ou ont ete utilises. Chaque notice comporte une description codicologique du manuscrit, une presentation des elements permettant de preciser l?origine ou la provenance du volume, la date de sa redaction et son histoire. La description du contenu privilegie les elements susceptibles d?eclairer l?histoire et l?usage du livre et vise a donner un apercu exhaustif de certains repertoires, celui des hymnes et les sequences en particulier. Tableaux synoptiques et index. Languages: French.

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C. MeyerMareMagnum

Catalogue des manuscrits notes du Moyen Age conserves dans les bibliotheques publiques de France. Collections de Champagne-Ardenne. Chalons-en-Champagne, Charleville-Mezieres, Chaumont, Langres, Reims, Troyes, Vitry-le-Francois

2010Paperback, XIX+268 p., 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9782503535647. Le present volume propose une description de 190 manuscrits notes conserves dans les bibliotheques publiques de la Region Champagne-Ardenne. Ils forment une collection disparate qui documente les chants et les poesies liturgiques au repertoire de l?ancienne province episcopale de Reims et des dioceses de Langres et de Troyes. Les vestiges les plus anciens sont conserves de maniere fragmentaire ou sous forme d?additions sur les livres de l?abbaye Saint-Thierry de Reims. Le fonds remois se distingue en outre par un bel ensemble d?ouvrages liturgiques destines a la celebration de la messe, tandis que les antiphonaires et breviaires du diocese de Langres (Chaumont, Langres) revelent de nombreux offices propres du sanctoral local ou diocesain. Les collections de Charleville-Mezieres et de Troyes reunissent egalement un ensemble representatif de livres liturgiques a l?usage de diverses communautes cisterciennes et cartusiennes. Les manuscrits champenois se singularisent en outre par la diversite des notations musicales. Si la notation francaise est pour ainsi dire inexistante a Reims, les manuscrits d?origine remoise utilisent, jusqu?au XIIIe siecle, une notation de type messin. En revanche, la notation a points lies et a petits carres dont la collection de la bibliotheque de Troyes conserve quelques beaux temoins semble avoir ete largement repandue dans la partie meridionale de la Champagne. Les collections champenoises offrent par ailleurs de nombreux temoins de notations neumatiques mixtes associant diversement des elements des notations messine et francaise. Une introduction presentant sommairement les fonds, leur histoire et leurs particularites, eclaire le cadre historique dans lequel ces manuscrits ont vu le jour ou ont ete utilises. Chaque notice comporte une description codicologique du manuscrit, une presentation des elements permettant de preciser l?origine ou la provenance du volume, la date de sa redaction et son histoire. La description du contenu privilegie les elements susceptibles d?eclairer l?histoire et l?usage du livre et vise a donner un apercu exhaustif de certains repertoires, celui des hymnes et les sequences en particulier. Index. Languages: French.

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C. Meyer, S. NishimagiMareMagnum

Tractatuli, excerpta et fragmenta de musica s. XI et XII

2012Paperback, 462 p., 31 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503540306. Cet ouvrage est le fruit d'un travail entrepris au debut de l'annee 2007, soutenu par l'idee de mettre a la disposition des chercheurs un ensemble de petits traites et extraits sur la musique conserves dans les sources manuscrites des XIe et XIIe siecles susceptible de preciser l'histoire des theories de la musique au cours de ces deux siecles et leurs implications pour la pratique du chant liturgique. A ce titre, tous ces textes sont indissociables des 'grands' traites de musique de l'ere carolingienne jusqu'au XIIe siecle - la Musica enchiriadis, le Dialogus de musica, les ecrits de Guy d'Arezzo, la preface a l'antiphonaire de Bernon ou encore la Musica de Jean d'Afflighem - dont la diffusion fut considerable et qui ont largement contribue a faconner la theorie du chant liturgique du Moyen Age. L'etablissement des textes a ete realise en etroite collaboration entre les deux editeurs de ce volume et les lecons retenues ont souvent fait l'objet de longues discussions Cet ensemble composite de textes doit etre lu et restitue dans la perspective des evenements majeurs qui s'operent au tournant des XIe et XIIe siecle et qui affectent la codification et la normalisation des repertoires du chant liturgique. Pour l'histoire du chant liturgique, l'evenement majeur fut incontestablement celui du mouvement de reforme qui se deploie dans l'eglise depuis le milieu du XIe siecle. Pour l'histoire du repertoire, cet evenement est indissociable de la diffusion progressive de la technique de notation sur lignes qui soumet desormais la codification des melodies a l'echelle des sons herite de l'enseignement du De institutione musica de Boece. La rencontre de ces evenements explique en grande partie l'ampleur des discussions theoriques autour des questions de la modalite dont bon nombre de ces textes se font l'echo. Languages: French, Latin.

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E. Willingham (ed.)MareMagnum

Mort le Roi Artur (The Death of Arthur) from the old French 'Lancelot' of Yale 229 with Essays, Glossaries and Notes to the Text

Paperback, IX+322 p., 28 colour ill., 215 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503516769. The multi-volume project responds to long-standing lacunae in Old French text study and Arthurian scholarship, in that it aims to provide a linguistically and scribally authentic text of a single illustrated Arthurian manuscript; in this case, it is one that has never before been edited, collated, or translated. Since research on text, language, and manuscript may be impeded by editorial policies operative in older editions of medieval narratives and since viewing the manuscripts directly is often difficult or impossible, the editorial board set protocols for the Lancelot Prose of 229 editions that would address the need for authentic, accessible texts, packaged with ancillaries to address a variety of reading and experience levels. At the same time, the board wished to take into account the potential of electronic images to enhance scholarly work and teaching based on the editions. The idea of a strictly 'diplomatic edition' was discarded in light of digital technology's ability to provide high-resolution images of an original that are useful for close private study and public viewing. Thus each edition provides a useful, portable, authentic reading of Old French Arthurian narrative that is supported externally by online electronic images and internally by a selection of wonderful illustrations and a variety of ancillary materials and essays developed through years of study and teaching based on Yale 229. The Mort begins with the return of Bohors from the quest of the Holy Grail and narrates the declining fortunes of King Arthur and his Round Table through the dissolution of the Table and the 'death' of Arthur. The tale includes Morgain's efforts to convince Arthur of Lancelot and Guinevere's adultery, Lancelot's battle to save Guinevere from burning at the stake, the dramatic discovery of Guinevere and Lancelot by Arthur's knights, the departure of Arthur from his kingdom to fight Lancelot, and Arthur's leaving his Kingdom, the keys to his treasury, and his Queen in the hands of the treacherous Mordret. In the closing folios, Arthur is mortally wounded by Mordret at the apocalyptic Battle of Salisbury Plain, and Lancelot returns to avenge Arthur against Mordret's two sons at the final Battle of Winchester. The book closes shortly after the death of Lancelot, with a rejection of the life of court and chivalry in favor of penance and spiritual fulfillment. Languages: English, French.

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