Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts

Author: Michelle Brown
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066110
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition of Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms offers definitions of the key elements of illuminated manuscripts, demystifying the techniques, processes, materials, nomenclature, and styles used in the making of these precious books. Updated to reflect current research and technologies, this beautifully illustrated guide includes images of important manuscript illuminations from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and beyond. Concise, readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered in manuscript studies make this portable volume an essential resource for students, scholars, and readers who wish a deeper understanding and enjoyment of illuminated manuscripts and medieval book production.

A History of Illuminated Manuscripts

Author: Christopher De Hamel
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

Scribes and Illuminators

Author: Christopher De Hamel
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802077073
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
Looks at the work of medieval paper, parchment, and ink makers, scribes, illuminators, binders, and booksellers

Illuminated Manuscripts

Author: Richard Hayman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784422355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 65

Book Description
Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books were produced by hand and their illustration using brightly coloured pigments and gold embellishments was a labour of love and an act of piety in itself. The results are stunning. The works emanating from the scriptoria of monasteries were mainly religious texts, including illuminated bibles, psalters, and works for private devotion known as books of hours. Illuminated Manuscripts describes the origin and history of illumination in the Middle Ages, covering the artists and their techniques, and the patrons who commissioned them. It explains the subject matter found in medieval works, such as saints and Bible stories and the use of ornamental flourishes, and is illustrated with many fine examples of the genre including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells.

Bibles and Bestiaries

Author: Elizabeth B. Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN:
Category : Bestiaries
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
The early history of printing and books, illustrated with examples from the world-renowned collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library.

The Use of Hereford

Author: Mr William Smith
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 147241277X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 865

Book Description
The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England before their abolition and replacement by the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. Unlike the widespread Use of Sarum, the Use of Hereford was confined principally to its diocese, which helped to maintain its individuality until the Reformation. This study seeks to catalogue and evaluate all the known surviving sources of the Use of Hereford, with particular reference to the missals and gradual, which so far have received little attention. In addition to these a variety of other material has been examined, including a number of little-known or unknown important fragments of early Hereford service-books dismembered at the Reformation and now hidden away as binding or other scrap in libraries and record offices.

The Arabic Manuscript Tradition

Author: Adam Gacek
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047432991
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
The present work supplements the original volume of The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (AMT), both its glossary of technical terms and bibliography. It includes new entries of technical terms, additional definitions of, and/or citations for, the entries already found in AMT, and recent publications on various aspects of Arabic manuscript studies arranged by subject. Among additional features there are illustrations of various Arabic letterforms and an alphabetical index of all works cited in both AMT and its supplement.

Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Makers

Author: Rowan Watson
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN: 9780810966062
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The magnificent pages of medieval missals, books of hours, breviaries, and bibles sparkle with detail illuminating the world in which they were created. This splendid volume, featuring some of the finest illuminated masterpieces from the exceptional collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, details the remarkable collaboration and craftsmanship that went into the creation of these delicate treasures. Close-up details show the intricacies of the various techniques used to create these fragile and rarely seen works. By helping the reader to appreciate the individual elements of illumination--the initials, borders, illustrations, script, and binding--Rowan Watson brings the world of the scribes, illuminators, and book dealers to life, and sheds light on the cooperative religious communities in which many of them worked. Watson also looks at the survival of illumination after the printing press and its revival in the 19th century in the hands of such pioneering designers as Owen Jones and William Morris.

The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts

Author: Michelle P. Brown
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802081728
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
An introduction to the history and techniques of writing that offers a thorough and accessible historical overview of techniques and processes, illustrated with examples, diagrams, and photographs of crafts people at work.

Walford's Guide to Reference Material: Generalia, language & literature, the arts

Author: Albert John Walford
Publisher: Library Association Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1180

Book Description
This book has achieved international recognition as a reference tool and a "one-stop" daily information source. This new edition features many topics, and is indispensable to librarians and information professionals revising reference collections, etc.