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Western Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : Paul Binski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139500600
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Western Illuminated Manuscripts written by Paul Binski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge University Library's collection of illuminated manuscripts is of international significance. It originates in the medieval university and stands alongside the holdings of the colleges and the Fitzwilliam Museum. The University Library contains major European examples of medieval illumination from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, with acknowledged masterpieces of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance book art, as well as illuminated literary texts, including the first complete Chaucer manuscript. This catalogue provides scholars and researchers easy access to the University Library's illuminated manuscripts, evaluating the importance of many of them for the very first time. It contains descriptions of famous manuscripts, for example the Life of Edward the Confessor attributed to Matthew Paris, as well as hundreds of lesser-known items. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the catalogue contains descriptions of individual manuscripts with up-to-date assessments of their style, origins and importance, together with bibliographical references.

Colour

Author : Stella Panayotova
Publisher : Harvey Miller
ISBN 13 : 9781909400566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Colour written by Stella Panayotova and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition that celebrates the bicentenary of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge with a display of its finest illuminated manuscripts. Of all the medieval and Renaissance arts - from sculptures, ivories, frescoes and stained glass to easel and wall paintings - it is manuscript illuminations, protected inside volumes, that best preserve the glowing colours and precious metals that would have dazzled their original spectators. The focus of this exciting and innovative exhibition is on COLOUR: it integrates scientific and art historical analyses of painting materials and techniques with studies on the manuscripts' historic contexts of production, including the relationships between artists and patrons. Identifications of the pigments' chemical composition and methods of application are considered alongside their aesthetic impact as well as the multiple dimensions and meanings of colour appreciated by medieval and Renaissance viewers. Over 150 manuscripts are displayed in the exhibition dating from the 8th to the 19th century and all are catalogued and fully illustrated here. The manuscripts are grouped in 14 thematic sections each of which is introduced by an essay that includes further relevant illustrations and presents the scientific and art historical analyses in a broader cultural context. The majority of the exhibits are from the Museum's collection and the main focus is on Western European illumination, but examples of Byzantine, Armenian, Persian and Sanskrit manuscripts are also included. In addition there are special loans from other Cambridge, British and European collections. The catalogue entries and introductory essays are written by a team of leading manuscript scholars, scientists and conservators who offer an integrated, cross-disciplinary approach and new insights into the art of illumination."--

The Cambridge Illuminations

Author : Paul Binski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Illuminations written by Paul Binski and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative and richly illustrated guide to over 200 outstanding illuminated manuscripts and leaves featured in this spectacular exhibition.

A History of Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : Christopher De Hamel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Illuminated Manuscripts written by Christopher De Hamel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Illuminated manuscripts are perhaps the most beautiful treasures to survive from the middle ages. This authoritative volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the medieval world of books, their production and their consumption. The text divides this world into different groups of readers and writers: missionaries, emperors, monks, students, aristocrats, priests, collectors and the general public. De Hamel is both informative and immensely readable, and the sumptuous illustrations render this book too good to be missed."--From Amazon.com

Art of Documentation

Author : Jessica Berenbeim
Publisher : Studies and Texts
ISBN 13 : 9780888441942
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Art of Documentation written by Jessica Berenbeim and published by Studies and Texts. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The later Middle Ages was a time of profound connection between the spheres of bureaucracy and art. By discussing the two together, this book argues that art-historical methods offer an important contribution to diplomatics, and that works of art are important sources for the cultural reception of documentary practices. Documents are also an important model for representation, and an understanding of the paradigmatic role of the document suggests alternative dimensions to the interpretation of late-medieval art. Ultimately, the ways documents appeared, functioned, and were perceived have implications for objects of all kinds. The discourses of documentation suggested an essential and consequential connection between objects and events: documents offered a powerful and widely disseminated model for how ephemeral actions and relationships could find enduring material form. With the broad diffusion of administrative records, this idea came to manifest itself in other forms of visual culture. Medieval monks inventoried documents alongside the contents of their treasuries, set them on the altar, and wrote about fantastical charters of gold. Documents can still be a person's - or a nation's - most treasured possessions. As powerful objects of veneration and instruments of control, they connect medieval society and our own, testing modern perceptions of the Middle Ages as an entirely lost world.

Illuminating the Law

Author : Susan L'Engle
Publisher : Harvey Miller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Illuminating the Law written by Susan L'Engle and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held Nov. 3-Dec. 16, 2001 at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

The Macclesfield Psalter

Author : Stella Panayotova
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Macclesfield Psalter written by Stella Panayotova and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having rested unknown for centuries in the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, the Macclesfield Psalter is the most important medieval manuscript discovered in living memory and has captured the nation's imagination.

The Cambridge Illuminations

Author : Stella Panayotova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Illuminations written by Stella Panayotova and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 26 papers delivered at the Conference held in Cambridge in December 2005 by a distinguished group of art historians and medievalists are presented here, each with illustrations.

A Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library

Author : John Hamilton Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780851153766
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (537 download)

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Book Synopsis A Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library by : John Hamilton Baker

Download or read book A Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library written by John Hamilton Baker and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer catalogue for one of the most important collections of English legal manuscripts.

The Illuminated Manuscripts in the Library of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Author : Fitzwilliam Museum. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Illuminated Manuscripts in the Library of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge written by Fitzwilliam Museum. Library and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

Author : Christopher de Hamel
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241003091
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts written by Christopher de Hamel and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An endlessly fascinating and enjoyable book' Neil MacGregor 'Full of delights' Tom Stoppard An extraordinary exploration of the medieval world - the most beguiling history book of the year This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meeting and talking to a person of world stature. The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to explore with the author what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and sometimes about the modern world too. Christopher de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, collectors and the international community of manuscript scholars, showing us how he and his fellows piece together evidence to reach unexpected conclusions. He traces the elaborate journeys which these exceptionally precious artefacts have made through time and space, shows us how they have been copied, who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell), how they have been embroiled in politics and scholarly disputes, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and luxury and as symbols of national identity. The book touches on religion, art, literature, music, science and the history of taste. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts conveys the fascination and excitement of encountering some of the greatest works of art in our culture which, in the originals, are to most people completely inaccessible. At the end, we have a slightly different perspective on history and how we come by knowledge. It is a most unusual book.

Western Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : University of Cambridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316087992
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Western Illuminated Manuscripts written by University of Cambridge and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge University Library's collection of illuminated manuscripts is of international significance. It originates in the medieval university and stands alongside the holdings of the colleges and the Fitzwilliam Museum. The University Library contains major European examples of medieval illumination from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, with acknowledged masterpieces of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance book art, as well as illuminated literary texts, including the first complete Chaucer manuscript. This catalogue provides scholars and researchers easy access to the University Library's illuminated manuscripts, evaluating the importance of many of them for the very first time. It contains descriptions of famous manuscripts, for example the Life of Edward the Confessor attributed to Matthew Paris, as well as hundreds of lesser-known items. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the catalogue contains descriptions of individual manuscripts with up-to-date assessments of their style, origins and importance, together with bibliographical references.

The Art & Science of Illuminated Manuscripts

Author : Stella Panayotova
Publisher : Harvey Miller
ISBN 13 : 9781912554591
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book The Art & Science of Illuminated Manuscripts written by Stella Panayotova and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results achieved by the research of the pioneering MINIARE research project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge led to the ground-breaking and acclaimed 2016 exhibition "COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts." This was followed by an international Conference, in which art historians, paper and book conservators, and cultural heritage scientists were brought together to share new recent research not only on manuscripts but also on painting in other media. The Conference proceedings were published in the first two volumes of the HMMIMA series (2017-2018). The present publication includes 6 Essays by way of introducing and explaining the major topics being investigated, including the range of inks, pigments and paint binders used by illuminators; parchment-making; pigment recipes; and model books. The many analytical instruments and techniques that are used to investigate manuscripts are also discussed. Then follow 58 Case Studies of manuscripts from as early as the year 700 up to c.1600. All these are fully illustrated in colour and in great detail, and should act as examples to inform scholars in libraries, museums and other cultural institutions of the benefits of adding scientific tools to the range of methods used to investigate manuscripts.

The Illuminated Manuscripts in the Library of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Author : Searle William George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781376336658
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Illuminated Manuscripts in the Library of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge written by Searle William George and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prestige, Authority, and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts

Author : Felicity Riddy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0952973464
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Prestige, Authority, and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts written by Felicity Riddy and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A range of manuscripts and texts from various social contexts studied for what they reveal of that social background.

Making Medieval Manuscripts

Author : Christopher De Hamel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851244683
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Making Medieval Manuscripts written by Christopher De Hamel and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What precisely is parchment? How were medieval manuscripts designed and executed? What were the inks and pigments, and how were they applied? This book looks at the work of scribes, illuminators and book binders. 0Based principally on examples in the Bodleian Library, this lavishly illustrated account tells the story of manuscript production from the early Middle Ages through to the high Renaissance. Each stage of production is described in detail, from the preparation of the parchment, pens, paints and inks to the writing of the scripts and the final decoration and illumination of the manuscript. This book also explains the role of the stationer or bookshop, often to be found near cathedral and market squares, in the commissioning of manuscripts, and it cites examples of specific scribes and illuminators who can be identified through their work as professional lay artisans.0Christopher de Hamel's text is accompanied by a glossary of key technical terms relating to manuscripts and illumination, providing an invaluable introduction for anyone interested in studying medieval manuscripts today.

The Illuminated Manuscripts in the Library of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Author : Searle William George
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781298566249
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book The Illuminated Manuscripts in the Library of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge written by Searle William George and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.