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Manuscripta Illuminata:

Approaches to Understanding Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
  • ISBN-13: 9780983753735
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: THE INDEX OF CHRISTIAN ART, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
  • Edited by Colum Hourihane
  • Price: AUD $75.99
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2014
  • Format: Paperback 286 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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Princeton University first started collecting Western manuscripts in 1876 and continues to this day with the specific aim of developing a research and teaching tool. That unique collection of medieval manuscripts forms the nucleus of this collection of essays. Stretching from Ottonian to the late Gothic–early Renaissance periods, these studies examine the secular as well as the religious and look at a variety of themes, from the book of hours to the grisaille manuscript. The studies all attempt to place the university’s collection in the broader framework of manuscript studies, and a number of them deal with general topics not represented within the manuscript library. Written by some of the most celebrated scholars in the field, the studies make every effort to help us understand the power of the written and illuminated word.

The contributors are Adelaide Bennett, Walter Cahn, Marc Michael Epstein, Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, Henry Mayr-Harting, Elizabeth Moodey, Stella Panayotova, Virginia Reinburg, Mary Rouse, Richard Rouse, Lucy Freeman Sandler, Don C. Skemer, Anne Rudloff Stanton, and Patricia Stirnemann.



“This generously illustrated book is a welcome and valuable contribution to the field of manuscript studies.”

—Hilary Maddocks, Parergon

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