![]() ![]() Some of these were also freely used by storytellers and itinerant actors to support their plays. These included short stories, legends of the saints, tales of chivalry, mythological stories, and even accounts of criminal, social or miraculous occurrences. They were costly and therefore only owned by wealthy patrons.Īs the production of manuscripts shifted from monasteries to the public sector during the High Middle Ages, illuminated books began to reflect secular interests. These items were often richly illuminated with miniatures, decorated initials and floral borders. These included Psalters, and small, personal devotional books known as Books of Hours. Other illuminated liturgical books appeared during and after the Romanesque period. The largest surviving example of these is The Codex Gigas in Sweden it is so massive that it takes three librarians to lift it. The Romanesque and Gothic periods saw the creation of many large illuminated complete bibles. The type of book most often heavily and richly illuminated is sometimes known as a "display book." In the first millennium, these were most likely to be Gospel Books, such as the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells. There are a few examples from later periods. 1460–1465, ink, tempera, and gold on vellum, binding: brown Morocco over original wooden boards, overall: 5.9 x 11.6 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art ( Cleveland, Ohio, US)Īrt historians classify illuminated manuscripts into their historic periods and types, including (but not limited to) Late Antique, Insular, Carolingian manuscripts, Ottonian manuscripts, Romanesque manuscripts, Gothic manuscripts, and Renaissance manuscripts. History The 63rd page of the Book of Hours (Use of Utrecht), c. Indeed, for many areas and time periods, they are the only surviving examples of painting. They are also the best surviving specimens of medieval painting, and the best preserved. They are among the most common items to survive from the Middle Ages many thousands survive. Illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced in the early 16th century but in much smaller numbers, mostly for the very wealthy. The introduction of printing rapidly led to the decline of illumination. Drawings in the margins (known as marginalia) would also allow scribes to add their own notes, diagrams, translations, and even comic flourishes. Very early printed books left spaces for red text, known as rubrics, miniature illustrations and illuminated initials, all of which would have been added later by hand. ![]() Paper manuscripts appeared during the Late Middle Ages. Books ranged in size from ones smaller than a modern paperback, such as the pocket gospel, to very large ones such as choirbooks for choirs to sing from, and "Atlantic" bibles, requiring more than one person to lift them. ![]() A very few illuminated fragments also survive on papyrus. These pages were then bound into books, called codices (singular: codex). Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment or vellum. While Islamic manuscripts can also be called illuminated and use essentially the same techniques, comparable Far Eastern and Mesoamerican works are described as painted. The majority of extant manuscripts are from the Middle Ages, although many survive from the Renaissance, along with a very limited number from late antiquity. Examples include the Codex Argenteus and the Rossano Gospels, both of which are from the 6th century. The earliest extant illuminated manuscripts come from the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths and the Eastern Roman Empire and date from between 400 and 600 CE. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws, charters, inventories and deeds. Various examples of pages from illuminated manuscriptsĪn illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. ![]()
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The owner of British Airways has invested in a green aviation fuel producer based in Teesside as the airline industry races to meet net zero targets. ![]() ![]() How Are Joint Ventures Taxed?įor tax purposes, a joint venture will often involve the establishment of a new corporate entity. The purpose of a joint venture is to take advantage of the resources of multiple companies at once in order to realize greater total gains through leveragedresources and minimize costs through economies of scale.Ī joint venture also allows multiple companies to make use of the skills and specializations of each party. In a joint venture, each participant is responsible for the associated profits and costs, however the venture itself is its own entity, separate from the other existing businesses. This may be a new project or another type of business activity. maximise the returns.A Joint Venture, or JV, is an arrangement or partnership between two or more entities in which they pool their resources to accomplish a specific task.How can you monitor performance and continue effective and honest communication with your partner? What will make or break the venture? Consider how you’ll operate in a different culture Step 3: Manage the overseas joint ventureĬonsider these points in the ongoing management of the joint venture: Take independent, specialist legal advice to ensure that the agreement covers all critical issues You should discuss and draft an outline agreement or blueprint. Establish what funding and support you can access. finalise the structure of the venture.Your proposed partner should have the right capabilities, the same agenda and inspire trust and confidence. 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Overseas joint ventures are an alternative to exporting. The companies remain separate entities but share costs, profits and losses as set out in a joint venture agreement. An international joint venture occurs when two or more companies come together to form a new business. ![]() ![]() We gave the Blade 15 a review score of 86 last year, and we currently recommend it as a premium pick in our guide to the best gaming laptops. That’s about $375 off its usual street price in recent months. Samsung The Frame smart TVĪ configuration of the Razer Blade 15 with a Core i7-12800H processor, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU, 240Hz QHD display, 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD is down to $1,923 for Prime Day. If you’re in the market for a premium TV, the S95B should remain the better value while it’s still available. But the S95 currently costs $2,298 and $2,298 for a 55- and 65-inch model, respectively, and its upgrades don’t appear to be massive enough to justify that extra cost for most. 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The 65-inch Samsung S95B is on sale for $1,598, matching its all-time low. ![]() ![]() That means any timing differences should be negligible and shouldn't manifest affect the timing of an actual run of Contra by more than a few frames. The demo is not a perfect test, but it's pretty good one because every time the demo loads the game will lag between 15-18 frames and there are some lag frames caused by a large number of movement and sprites overload in the actual demo. ![]() In testing I've found that it's been able to keep sync with the console running the demo for over half an hour. ![]() That all sounds fine, but what about actual testing? As far as I've tested, Nestopia is highly accurate. Bannister didn't do work on the emulation core, but did handle the port to OS X and he's a pretty reliable source.īannister also confirms cycle-exact simulation. Richard Bannister is a software developer specializing in emulation and he corroborates Nestopia's accuracy. Wikipedia reports that the emulates the NES processor with cycle perfect accuracy. The website for Nestopia is a stripped down shell and it’s not particularly useful for technical documentation. Let me explain where I got that info from and how accurate accurate is. But what about Nestopia is it accurate? Do you get an advantage by playing on it or not?Ī: From what I've researched Nestopia is accurate. Q: Your example of a timing difference was from SNES, but we're talking about NES. and how much an emulator's "inaccuracy" would affect the actual time of a speedrun. Going into this, I didn't know earlier if there was a similar sort of tier as far as accuracy with Nestopia, ie Nesticle > Nestopia > FCEUX > BizHawk > puNES etc. The point is that emulators can make a difference so we wanted to check to see what those differences were. That's an extreme example and I know we're talking about the NES and not the SNES. Snes 9x 1.51 was fairly accurate and BSnes/BizHawk/Higan is about as accurate as we can get right now. ZSnes was terribly inaccurate, Snes 9x 1.43 was very inaccurate. For SNES emulation, some emulators are just better than others. It was severe enough that we actually had to kill off player two to avoid lag. In Snes 9x 1.43 the game does not lag at all in a certain spot, but it can lag for up to 17 seconds on console. If the same inputs were from that TAS were to be done on a console the time would be either on par or slower than our time. The RTA speedrun that Hurblat and I did which clocks 13:38. The current 2 player TAS of Contra III was done on Snes 9x 1.43 and it clocks in at 13:03. It's not always just splitting hairs or semantics. To be precise, we take the emulator into consideration and even how well the particular emulator handles the game into consideration. The emulator needs to run the game at the same speed the console does and it needs to lag in the same places console does for the same duration. The biggest concern with comparing console times to emulator times is whether or not there are any significant timing differences between emulator and console and it has to be determined on a case by case basis. If we want to be able to compare times and be as sure as possible that they are fair and comparable someone has to do the actual work of figuring out what factors come into play when comparing times and how important those factors might be. Q: Why is playing on emulator a big enough deal to be a separate category?Ī: It would be nice if everyone would play on console because we wouldn't really have to worry about little stuff when making comparisons, but that's not an option for everyone. ![]() Hurblat wanted to get everyone's input on different controller types (regular controller/vs keyboard). Q: Why were the times separated on the leaderboard?Ī: Because we were unsure of the timing differences between console and emulator. Long version (because I want to put some stuff to rest) ![]() This thread is about people having a friendly competition and pushing it to the limits. TMR and Heidman are both incredible at the game and they've done more than their share to push the time down. TheMexicanRunner has posted the best time for the game and Heidman's got the best time on console and let's put the other semantics to rest. I've talked to Hurblat about merging the leaderboards together and just listing the platform alongside of each time. There wasn't any intention of alienating anyone or creating a faction in the community. The category split was because there wasn't a lot of clarity about how the times might have differed between versions and to get input on how people felt on emulator vs console and keyboard. I'm going to give a short version and a long version. I was going to let sleeping dogs lie, but here's one last poke at this. ![]() |
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