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Studies in Manuscript Illumination, 1200-1400

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This volume compiles twenty-six studies centred on illuminated manuscripts created in 13th and 14th century England, especially illuminated psalters. The book delves into the marginal illustrations...
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The author is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History at New York University , Institute of Fine Arts, and a leading authority on English medieval manuscript illumination.

This volume bring together twenty-six of Professor Sandler's studies, focusing on illustrated manuscripts produced in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly on the illuminated psalters. The marginal illustrations in these psalters are a topic of particular interest, and there are a number of iconographic studies derived from this material. A separate section deals with the illustrated encyclopedias of the period, particularly the Omne bonum.
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Price: £30.00
Pages: 812
Publisher: Pindar Press
Imprint: Pindar Press
Publication Date: 31 December 2008
ISBN: 9781904597612
Format: Paperback
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ART / History / Medieval, History of art

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Helen Gould Sheppard is Professor of Art History at New York University , Institute of Fine Arts, and a leading authority on English medieval manuscript illumination.
Introduction

Manuscripts, Artists and Themes

The Historical Miniatures of the Fourteenth-Century Ramsey Psalter

Peterborough Abbey and the Peterborough Psalter in Brussels

A Follower of Jean Pucelle in England; Christian Hebraism and the Ramsey Abbey Psalter

An Early Fourteenth Century English Breviary at Longleat

An Early Fourteenth Century English Psalter in the Escorial

A Fragment of the Chertsey Breviary in San Francisco

Jean Pucelle and the Lost Miniatures of the Belleville Breviary

The Handclasp in the Arnolfini Wedding: A Manuscript Precedent

Marginalia and Word Imagery: A Series of Marginal Illustrations in the Rutland Psalter

Reflections on the Construction of Hybrids in English Gothic Marginal Illustrations

A Bawdy Betrothal in the Ormesby Psalter

The Study of Marginal Imagery, Past, Present, and Future; Verbal and Pictorial Play in the Margins: The Case of Stowe 49

The Images of Words in English Gothic Psalters; Devotional, Visionary and Self-Images: Face to Face with God: A Pictorial Image of the Beatific Vision

The Image of the Book-owner in the Fourteenth Century: Three Cases of Self-definitionManuscript Images of Devotion and the Wilton Diptych

The Chantry Chapel of Roger of Waltham in Old St Paul's

Illustrated Encyclopedias and Scholarly Texts: Notes for the Illuminator: the Case of the Omne bonum

Omne bonum: Compilatio and Ordinatio in an English Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Century; Enciclopedia

The Canon Law Illustrations of the Omne bonum, an English Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Century

Index-making in the Fourteenth Century: Archbishop Arundel's Copy of the Gospel Commentary of William of Nottingham

The Role of Illustrations in James le Palmer's Omne bonum

John of Metz, The Tower of Wisdom; Additional Notes

Index