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A Lecture on Some English Illuminated Manuscripts
Illuminated English manuscripts come to life with vivid colors and rich histories you can actually hold.
This book shines a light on select thirteenth- and fourteenth-century works, showing how English art reached a high level of skill and how bindings, pages, and miniatures reveal a culture of devotion, learning, and craft.
The narrative centers on a careful, guided journey through specific manuscripts and their makers, from early English bindings to later styles. It connects technical details—like page layouts, initials, and borders—with the people and periods that shaped them, including notable shorthands to the era’s social and political context. Through object-focused discussion, the book examines why these volumes mattered to readers, collectors, and libraries, and it highlights moments when provenance or hands-on study illuminate the past.See how pages were prepared and colored, and how bindings survived through centuries.Learn about notable manuscripts from Norfolk and Yorkshire, and the East Anglian school’s influence.Discover the role of collectors, libraries, and display in preserving these works.Understand how royal and religious patrons touched the fate of particular books. Ideal for readers curious about medieval art, book history, and the care and study of illuminated manuscripts, this edition invites you to view relics through a curator’s lens and connect the craft to its broader culture.
This book shines a light on select thirteenth- and fourteenth-century works, showing how English art reached a high level of skill and how bindings, pages, and miniatures reveal a culture of devotion, learning, and craft.
The narrative centers on a careful, guided journey through specific manuscripts and their makers, from early English bindings to later styles. It connects technical details—like page layouts, initials, and borders—with the people and periods that shaped them, including notable shorthands to the era’s social and political context. Through object-focused discussion, the book examines why these volumes mattered to readers, collectors, and libraries, and it highlights moments when provenance or hands-on study illuminate the past.See how pages were prepared and colored, and how bindings survived through centuries.Learn about notable manuscripts from Norfolk and Yorkshire, and the East Anglian school’s influence.Discover the role of collectors, libraries, and display in preserving these works.Understand how royal and religious patrons touched the fate of particular books. Ideal for readers curious about medieval art, book history, and the care and study of illuminated manuscripts, this edition invites you to view relics through a curator’s lens and connect the craft to its broader culture.
234 pages, Paperback
Published October 8, 2018
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