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Left to right - 1250 AD, 1450 AD, 1280 AD

1250 AD - Our oldest manuscript. Book of Hours on vellum, possibly from France. Fresh natural colors, white filling, decorations in burnished gold. Beautiful and singular Gothic handwriting, all richly illuminated and miniated in silver, blue with Gothic-Batarde vellum, rich with initials, filler lines & letters. Colored Minuskeln and Lombarden in gold,red and blue classities colored climbing work and hands ornaments Double columns, each with 15 lines

1450 AD - A delicate leaf from a Book of Hours, 15th century, in Latin, on vellum from the North of France, (possibly Amiens?) 153x100 mm (6"x4"). There are seventeen lines of monastic Gothic script in brown inks with numerous highly embossed capitals on grounds on red and blue with white tendrils. Line fillers have blue and red grounds with white tendrils and a highly embossed gold middle. Two sided. Condition of this leaf is Fine [F] "Gloria Patri, et Filio: et Spiritui sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper: et in saecula saeculorum, Amen." "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost. Even as it was in the beginning, and now, and ever: and world without end. Amen."

1280 AD - This is an original vellum from an original Medieval Illuminated Manuscript. It is a richly decorated, breviarium or Book of Hours used in Rome, 13th century, most likely written in a scriptorium of France around 1280. This is a text manuscript with two culumns of 31 lines in each column. It consist of red-ruled page written in pale dark brown and blue & red ink in latin text manuscript liturgical in sleek gothic-batarde, classic style of the 13th century.

A Little History

"Medieval scribes usually wrote their Books of Hours on parchment or vellum, the supple, almost silky, skin of a calf or lamb, which had been carefully cleaned, thinned, scraped, and polished to a pearly and opaque, nearly white, color. A single Book of Hours uses eight to ten of these hides. The vellum used for the finest Books of Hours is nearly as thin as paper, and it was much more costly. Paper was a high-value commodity in 14th-century Europe, but vellum probably cost three to five times the price of paper."
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

What is a Book of Hours?

Pestilence, famine, war, and death: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were close companions to life in the 14th century. The Church was compromised by political corruption and worldliness, and the pope resided not in Rome, but at Avignon, where he remained a virtual pawn to the king of France. During this calamitous phase of European history, a devotional text called the Book of Hours emerged as a medieval bestseller.

A Book of Hours is a prayer book designed for laymen, a compendium of psalms, Bible verses, hymns, antiphons, and prayers for private devotional use. The book takes its name from a text called the Hours of the Virgin, a set of eight daily prayers meant to venerate the Virgin Mary. During a 250-year period beginning in the late 13th century, these little volumes—for they are almost always small enough to fit easily into the pocket of a modern jacket—were produced in greater number than any other single text.
The Book of Hours first appeared as an identifiable class of text in the mid-13th century, became an item of conspicuous consumption in the 14th century, was mass-produced by a veritable army of scribes and illuminators in the 15th century, and was printed in hundreds of editions in the early 16th century.

​These Books of Hours were prayer books, but they were always much more than that, for they became something of a medieval status symbol for those wishing to join the ranks of the literate, well-to-do middle class. For much of its history, a Book of Hours was the only book a lay family was likely to possess, and most literate adults had learned to read from a Book of Hours. They were called "Primers" (sometimes "Prymers") in late Middle English, a word whose modern meaning—a book for teaching children to read—stems directly from one of their frequent uses in medieval Europe.

Glossary

Documents

1450 - Late Medieval/Early Renaissance  Devotional - Gold Illuminated Book of Hours Manuscript on Vellum 

1497 - ​The Nuremberg Chronicles Colored Woodcuts of 2nd Century Gnostics, Virgin & Ptolemy

The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated biblical paraphrase and world history that follows the story of human history related in the Bible; it includes the histories of a number of important Western cities. Written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel, with a version in German, translation by Georg Alt, it appeared in 1493. It is one of the best-documented early printed books—an incunabulum —and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text.
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Latin scholars refer to it as Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles) as this phrase appears in the index introduction of the Latin edition. English speakers have long referred to it as the Nuremberg Chronicle after the city in which it was published. German speakers refer to it as Die Schedelsche Weltchronik (Schedel's World History) in honour of its author.

The Chronicle was first published in Latin on 12 July 1493 in the city of Nuremberg. This was quickly followed by a German translation on 23 December 1493. An estimated 1400 to 1500 Latin and 700 to 1000 German copies were published. A document from 1509 records that 539 Latin versions and 60 German versions had not been sold. Approximately 400 Latin and 300 German copies survived into the twenty-first century.[5] The larger illustrations were also sold separately as prints, often hand-coloured in watercolour. Many copies of the book are also coloured, with varying degrees of skill; there were specialist shops for this. The colouring on some examples has been added much later, and some copies have been broken up for sale as decorative prints.

1503 - Late Medieval/Early Renaissance Incunable Illuminated Book of Hours on Vellum

Antiphones

The Roman Church has been singing the "O" Antiphons since at least the eighth century. They are the antiphons that accompany the Magnificat canticle of Evening Prayer from December 17-23. They are a magnificent theology that uses ancient biblical imagery drawn from the messianic hopes of the Old Testament to proclaim the coming Christ as the fulfillment not only of Old Testament hopes, but present ones as well. Their repeated use of the imperative "Come!" embodies the longing of all for the Divine Messiah.

The Flight there...

Criss Angel "Believe"

Bellagio Buffet and Garden

Mirage and Siegfried and Roy's Secret Garden

The Venetian and a really fancy book store...

Cirque de Soleil "O" 

Hoover Dam

Welcome to Las Vegas... proof we were here. 

Menopause and "The Top of The World"

Red Rock Canyon

Beatles Tribute Band

Flight Back

Casino Royale

Fremont Street Experience

The central attraction is a barrel vault canopy, 90 ft (27 m) high at the peak and four blocks, or approximately 1,500 ft (460 m), in length.

While Las Vegas is known for never turning the outside casino lights off, each show begins by turning off the lights on all of the buildings, including the casinos, under the canopy. Before each show, one bidirectional street that crosses the Experience is blocked off for safety reasons.

Concerts, usually free, are also held on three stages. The venue has become a major tourist attraction for downtown Las Vegas, and is also the location of the SlotZilla zip line attraction and the city's annual New Year's Eve party, complete with fireworks on the display screen.

A section comprising one fiftieth of the total canopy equals the size of the world’s current largest electric sign. Originally, nearly 2.1 million incandescent lights were housed in the canopy. With the completion of the $17 million upgrade, more than 12 million LED lamps illuminate the overhead canopy. The new LED upgrade was designed and engineered by LG Electronics, who is also the primary corporate sponsor of the canopy. Within the canopy itself are 220 speakers powered by 550,000 watts of amplification.