Manuscripta illuminata : approaches to understanding Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts /

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Imprint:[Princeton, New Jersey] : Princeton University ; University Park, Pennsylvania : distributed by Penn State University Press, 2014.
Description:xiv, 287 pages ; 28 cm.
Language:English
Series:The index of Christian art occasional papers ; XVI
Occasional papers (Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology. Index of Christian Art) ; 16.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10081771
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Other authors / contributors:Hourihane, Colum, 1955- editor.
ISBN:0983753733
9780983753735
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Princeton University first started collecting Western manuscripts in 1876 and continues to this day with the specific aim of developing a research and teaching tool. That unique collection of medieval manuscripts forms the nucleus of this collection of essays. Stretching from Ottonian to the late Gothic-early Renaissance periods, these studies examine the secular as well as the religious and look at a variety of themes, from the book of hours to the grisaille manuscript. The studies all attempt to place the university's collection in the broader framework of manuscript studies, and a number of them deal with general topics not represented within the manuscript library. Written by some of the most celebrated scholars in the field, the studies make every effort to help us understand the power of the written and illuminated word.

The contributors are Adelaide Bennett, Walter Cahn, Marc Michael Epstein, Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, Henry Mayr-Harting, Elizabeth Moodey, Stella Panayotova, Virginia Reinburg, Mary Rouse, Richard Rouse, Lucy Freeman Sandler, Don C. Skemer, Anne Rudloff Stanton, and Patricia Stirnemann.

Physical Description:xiv, 287 pages ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:0983753733
9780983753735