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Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Bodleian Library --- Book history --- Art --- miniatures [paintings] --- illuminated manuscripts --- Illumination of books and manuscripts - Oxford

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UCL has one of the foremost university Special Collections in the UK. It is a treasure trove of national and international importance, comprising over a million items dating from the 4th century AD to the present day. Treasures from UCL draws together detailed descriptions and images of 70 of the most prized items. Between the magnificent illuminated Latin Bible of the 13th century and the personal items of one of the 20th century's greatest writers, George Orwell, the many highlights of this remarkable collection will delight and intrigue anyone who picks up this book.

Libraries --- Antiquities --- Special collections. --- Illuminated manuscripts. --- Collections. --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- Library special collections --- Special collections in libraries --- Library resources --- archives --- library --- special collections --- Manuscript --- University College London

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This publication is the first comprehensive survey to establish the importance of Renaissance manuscript illumination in the history of sixteenth-century French art. Although illustrated printed books were circulating freely by the beginning of the sixteenth century, patronage of manuscripts became all the more special to the ruling elite, and commissions from the court, aristocratic circles and the higher clergy resulted in a surge of artistic creativity that produced a wide range of outstanding illustrated works from devotional books to translations of classical and humanistic texts. While continuing the tradition of French figurative art, ornamentation became a major element in the style of the period, with frames and borders becoming a significant feature of the aesthetic impact of the illuminated page. One hundred manuscripts have been chosen for this survey to represent the artistic excellence of French book production of the period, as well as to demonstrate the stylistic relationships between artists and between books that may be seen to form distinct groups. Many years of research enabled the author to identify the hands of individual illuminators, both named and anonymous, and to connect these to a particular artistic milieu or regional group. Moreover, not only are the stylistic aspects of the manuscripts analysed, but entirely new information regarding authorship, patronage and historical context are revealed here of hitherto unstudied material. The author, Myra Orth, completed her catalogue and introductory texts shortly before her sad death some years ago. Since that time, a number of scholars – specialists in French manuscripts studies of the period – have helped to update the literature that has more recently appeared relating to the manuscripts catalogued and to the individual artists and workshops discussed. Present locations of manuscripts that may have changed ownership since Dr Orth’s submission of her work have also been noted. To accompany the detailed catalogue, the publication includes a corpus of 360 illustrations that offers a significant visual conspectus of manuscript illumination of the period. In addition to the introductory text, the author also provides brief biographies of Artists and Scribes, Authors and Translators, and Patrons and Dedicatees. --Harvey Miller Publishers

Book history --- illuminated manuscripts --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- French Renaissance-Baroque styles --- Manuscripts, Renaissance --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, French --- Manuscrits de la Renaissance --- Enluminure française --- Catalogs --- Catalogues --- Enluminure française --- 091.31 <44> --- 091.31 <44> Verluchte handschriften--Frankrijk --- Verluchte handschriften--Frankrijk --- Manuscripts, Renaissance - France - Catalogs --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, French - Catalogs --- Mss France --- Mss Renaissance

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Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of monarchs as a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive, revealing unobserved threads of continuity, patterns of intention and unique qualities that run through English art of the medieval millennium. By placing the English movement in a European context, this book brings to light many ingenious innovations that focused studies tend not to recognize and offers a fresh look at the movement as a whole. The media studied include architecture and related sculpture, both ecclesiastical and secular; tomb monuments; murals, panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; manuscript illuminations; textiles; and art by English artists and by foreign artists commissioned by English patrons

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The Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) houses a collection of 156 French and Flemish illuminated manuscripts from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries which are of huge historical and artistic interest. This book, the result of the systematic cataloguing of these holdings by specialist Samuel Gras, provides a thorough codicological description of the manuscripts and a wealth of new information about the attribution of the miniatures and the provenance and dating of the manuscripts. The research has made it possible to clarify the reasons why these manuscripts ? some from the French court or brought from Sicily by the viceroys of Naples ? found their way into major Spanish collections and to establish the involvement of a few prestigious workshops of which no extant examples were known until now. Prominent among the works studied are several eleventh-century codices, the collection of thirteenth-century Parisian bibles, some copies of the Roman de la Rose, legal manuscripts from southern France and a group of fifteenth-century books of hours.00Although various authors had mentioned these manuscripts, an in-depth study in the light of the latest knowledge of French and Flemish medieval painting had not yet been carried out taking into account the new information on the geographical distribution of the workshops and the identification of the miniaturists. This catalogue raisonné ? which has given rise to an exhibition at the BNE curated by Gras and Javier Docampo, former head of the institution?s Department of Manuscripts, Incunables and Rare Books ? explores the extremely rich and beautiful collection in great detail through its text and illustrations.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, French --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish --- Biblioteca Nacional (Spain) --- Catalogs --- Catalogs. --- 091 <46 MADRID> --- 091.31 "08/15" --- 091.31 "08/15" Verluchte handschriften--?"08/15" --- Verluchte handschriften--?"08/15" --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Spanje--MADRID --- Exhibitions --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- illuminated manuscripts --- National Library of Spain [Madrid] --- anno 800-1199 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- France --- Flanders