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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 in these psalters and includes iconographic studies. Additionally, it...
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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: £150.00
Pages: 812
Publisher: Pindar Press
Imprint: Pindar Press
Publication Date: 31 December 2008
ISBN: 9781904597391
Format: Hardcover
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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