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"This handsomely produced publication is the first of a two volume set exploring an outstanding collection of leaves and miniatures from medieval manuscripts. Brimming with beautiful illustrations, this welcome contribution to medieval scholarship covers a period from the late 9th to the late 15th centuries and incorporates new discoveries in this still growing field. The turbulent times when Napoleon's troops were sweeping over Europe under the banner of secularization, seeking to suppress ecclesiastical influence within the sphere of political power, had disastrous consequences especially for ecclesiastical libraries, which were broken up and looted. The Italian religious houses had their cultural treasures destroyed or moved out of context and spread all over the world to satisfy a growing market for medieval art. These fatal years (1796-99) coincide with a major interest in early Italian painting, when French and English connoisseurs joined their Italian colleagues in a systemat ic study of early Italian art, producing fundamental studies on the subject. Essentially the deplorable practice of breaking up manuscripts and liturgical books was not all that different from the inglorious process of dismembering giant medieval altarpieces, whose single pieces were made available to a growing market and, consequently, dispersed among different collections. Thus, in the present day, one of the major tasks of the art historian is the attempt to reassemble these fragments and present them in virtual reconstructions, reconstituting their original context. By doing this, scholars create the foundation for any further art-historical analysis of a work of art. This task is one of the important objectives in cataloguing the present collection. The miniatures and single leaves in the McCarthy collection, which has been formed in the past two or three decades - between 1990 and today - are manifestly the fruit of the destructive, but at the same time a conservational effort. E ven though assembled in relatively recent years, the McCarthy collection stands in line with many similar anthologies of miniature in private or public hands. However, by contrast to other similar collections, the McCarthy collection has not limited its focus just on one school of European illumination, the Italian centres of illumination, but aims to present a vast panorama of this sophisticated art, which, to use Dante's words, was called 'illumination' ('... quell arte ch'alluminar chiamata è in Parisi'; Purgatorio, XI, 79-80). The present volume is dedicated to the holdings of single leaves and miniatures from medieval Italian manuscripts, which cover a period from the late 9th to the late 15th centuries, and are enriched by a few Byzantine items, appropriately included here and discussed by Georgi Parpulov. The focus on late 13th- and early 14th-century illumination in the collection demonstrates McCarthy's predilection for the medieval and early Gothic world, which also becomes apparent in his holdings of French and German illumination, to be discussed by Peter Kidd in volume II, to be announced shortly."--

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine. --- Manuscrits à peintures italiens --- Manuscrits à peintures byzantins --- McCarthy, Robert --- Art collections --- Italy. --- 091 <017.2 MCCARTHY, ROBERT> --- 091.31 --- 091.31 Verluchte handschriften --- Verluchte handschriften --- 091 <017.2 MCCARTHY, ROBERT> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Private verzamelingen--017.2 MCCARTHY, ROBERT --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Private verzamelingen--017.2 MCCARTHY, ROBERT --- Manuscrits à peintures français. --- Manuscripts, European --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, European --- Manuscrits à peintures espagnols --- Manuscrits à peintures anglais --- Manuscrits à peintures flamands --- Catalogs.

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The present volume analyzes the functions of landscape imagery within medieval Northern European manuscript illumination, and also takes into account the ideological and the economic milieus in which they were produced. This book proposes a new methodological framework for the study of medieval landscape imagery, by analyzing the functions of landscape imagery within Northern European manuscript illumination. Taking a historicist approach, this study explores landscape imagery within a broad range of specific manuscript contexts, taking into account the ideological and the economic milieus in which they were produced. Organized into three sections, this study will look at how landscape functioned as ornament, didactic tool (space) and political tool (place). The first section looks at the role that landscape imagery had in the hierarchy of book decoration, and how it responded to late medieval mnemonic systems and devotional practices. It also addresses the emergence of landscape as a form of ornamental elaboration, sometimes as a means to appeal to specific aesthetic criteria, or as a way to create extra-textual associations to augment the message of the text. The second section is concerned with landscape within encyclopedic and allegorical manuscripts, and will analyze how artists constructed space to communicate specific lessons or ideas, for example to frame debates about the role of agricultural labor or to present the dynastic ambitions of the Burgundian court. Finally, the third section explores the visualization of the political and economic landscape of late medieval Europe, particularly focusing on how landscape was structured to respond issues of status, power and identity not only in works created for the landed nobility but within manuscripts made for urban patrons as well. Concentrating on manuscripts from Paris, Northern France and Flanders from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries,

Book history --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Iconography --- anno 500-1499 --- Landscape in art --- Landscapes in art --- Landschap in de kunst --- Landschappen in de kunst --- Paysage dans l'art --- Paysages dans l'art --- Vedute --- Veduteschilders --- Vedutismo --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, French. --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish. --- Landscapes in art. --- Enluminure médiévale --- Enluminure française --- Enluminure flamande --- Themes, motives. --- Thèmes, motifs --- Manuscrits à peintures médiévaux --- Manuscrits à peintures français --- Manuscrits à peintures flamands --- Paysage --- 091.31 <4> --- 091.31:7.04 --- Verluchte handschriften--Europa --- Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- 091.31:7.04 Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- 091.31 <4> Verluchte handschriften--Europa --- Enluminure médiévale --- Enluminure française --- Thèmes, motifs --- Illumination of books and manuscripts [Medieval ] --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs.

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091.31:7.04 --- 091:22 --- 091 <44> --- 091 <41> --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- -Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- -Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Painting, Medieval --- Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- Bijbels--(handschriften) --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frankrijk --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- History --- -Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 091 <44> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frankrijk --- 091:22 Bijbels--(handschriften) --- 091.31:7.04 Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- -091.31:7.04 Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- Civilization, Medieval --- Bible. --- Epistles of Paul --- Paul, Epistles of --- Paul Sŏsin --- Pauline epistles --- Risālat al-Qiddīs Būlus al-rasūl al-thāniyah ilá Tīmūthīʼūs --- Illustrations. --- Paulus (Hl.). Brieven. Verluchte handschriften (Franse). 12e-13e eeuw. --- Paul (Saint). Epitres. Manuscrits à peintures néerlandais. 12e-13e s. --- Paul (Saint). Epitres. Manuscrits à peintures français. 12e-13e s. --- Paulus (Hl.). Brieven. Verluchte handschriften (Nederlandse). 12e-13e eeuw.

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Picturing Kingship presents the first comprehensive art-historical study of the personal prayerbook of King Louis IX. The book approaches the St. Louis Psalter through a rich range of perspectives and methodologies and positions it within the contexts of its production and use. Not only is the manuscript’s production and structure given detailed study, but the king’s ways of handling his prayerbook―his habits of reading, looking, and praying―are also set forth in a compelling narrative of his view of his sacred responsibilities as king.In the first half of the book, Stahl investigates the Psalter’s physical construction and development within the context of manuscript production in thirteenth-century Paris. The second half looks at the Psalter’s thematic and iconographic workings and the role of the king’s adviser―Vincent of Beauvais―in the Psalter’s shaping. Most important, though, the author delves into the meanings the Psalter might have held for the king, who was a crusader and so devout a Christian that he was canonized by Boniface VIII. Stahl makes it clear that the Psalter, already recognized as one of the true masterworks of thirteenth-century French culture, should also be recognized as a significant force in Louis IX’s life and reign.

Psalters --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, French. --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic --- Kings and rulers in art --- Psautiers --- Enluminure française --- Enluminure gothique --- Rois et souverains dans l'art --- Illustrations. --- Illustrations --- Louis --- Catholic Church. --- Psautier de Saint Louis. --- 091 <017.2 LOUIS IX> --- 091 <017.2 LOUIS IX> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Private verzamelingen--LOUIS IX --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Private verzamelingen--LOUIS IX --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, French --- 091:264-13*3 --- 091.31 <44> --- Liturgies --- French illumination of books and manuscripts --- 091:264-13*3 Psalteria--(handschriften) --- Psalteria--(handschriften) --- 091.31 <44> Verluchte handschriften--Frankrijk --- Verluchte handschriften--Frankrijk --- Ludovik --- Luwīs al-Tāsiʻ, --- Louis, --- Ludwig, --- Ludovicus, --- Bibliothèque nationale (France) --- Catholic Church --- Biblioteca Nacional de París (France) --- Biblioteca nazionale di Parigi (France) --- Bibliotheca Nationalis Parisiensis (France) --- Bibliothèque du Louvre (France) --- BN --- France. --- Pari Kokuritsu Toshokan --- Paris. --- Sifriyah ha-leʼumit be-Paris (France) --- المكتبة الوطنية (فرنسا) --- Bibliothèque impériale (France) --- Bibliothèque nationale de France --- Liturgy --- Texts --- Psalter Ludwigs des Heiligen --- Psautier de St. Louis --- Psalter of St. Louis (Bibliothèque nationale de France) --- Psalter of Saint Louis (Bibliothèque nationale de France) --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Enluminure. --- Manuscrits à peintures français. --- Manuscrits à peintures médiévaux --- Vincent, --- Vincent de Beauvais,