Author: Christopher De Hamel
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"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
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
Author: Christopher De Hamel
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ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"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
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"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
Beyond Words
Author: Jeffrey F. Hamburger
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ISBN: 9781892850263
Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, Beyond Words provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. With over 150 manuscripts on display, Manuscripts for Pleasure & Piety at the McMullen Museum focuses on lay readership and the place of books in medieval society. The High Middle Ages witnessed an affirmation of the visual and, with it, empirical experience. There was an explosion of illumination. Various types of images, whether in prayer or professional books, attest to the newfound importance of visual demonstration in matters of faith and science alike."--
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ISBN: 9781892850263
Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, Beyond Words provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. With over 150 manuscripts on display, Manuscripts for Pleasure & Piety at the McMullen Museum focuses on lay readership and the place of books in medieval society. The High Middle Ages witnessed an affirmation of the visual and, with it, empirical experience. There was an explosion of illumination. Various types of images, whether in prayer or professional books, attest to the newfound importance of visual demonstration in matters of faith and science alike."--
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 874
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Languages : en
Pages : 874
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The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Book Auction Records
Author: Frank Karslake
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
An Illustrated Catalogue of Manuscripts and Rare Books
Author: Myers & co., booksellers, London
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector
Author: Wilfred Partington
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Notes and Queries
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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The pleasures of reason: or, The hundred thoughts of a sensible young lady. In Engl. and Fr
Author: Robert Gillet (F.F.R.S.)
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Languages : fr
Pages : 196
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 196
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