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A history of illuminated manuscripts / Christopher De Hamel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Phaidon Press, 1994Edition: Second edition, revised, enlarged and with new illDescription: 272 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0714829498
  • 9780714829494
  • 0714834521
  • 9780714834528
Other title:
  • Illuminated manuscripts
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.67
LOC classification:
  • ND2900 .D36 1994
  • N2900 .D36 1994
Contents:
Introduction -- I. Books for Missionaries -- 7th-9th centuries: the written word as an essential tool for the early missionaries of Britain and Ireland, who produced books of extraordinary sophistication -- II. Books for Emperors -- 8th-11th centuries: books as treasure and as luxurious objects of display and diplomatic gifts in the courts of Charlemagne and his successors -- III. Books for Monks -- 12th century: the golden age of the monastic book, when monks in their scriptoria produced manuscripts for their libraries -- IV. Books for Students -- 13th century: the rise of the universities and the emergence of a professional book trade to meet the new need for textbooks -- V. Books for Aristocrats -- 14th century: the Age of Chivalry - a wealthy and newly literate aristocracy generating a new type of book, the secular romance -- VI. Books for Everybody -- 15th century: the emergence of the Book of Hours as a devotional book for ordinary households as well as the aristocracy -- VII. Books for Priests -- 13th-16th centuries: the Bibles, Missals, Breviaries, Psalters and other service books and handbooks that sustained the life of the Church -- VIII. Books for Collectors -- 15th-16th centuries: the revival of classical learning and the creation of de luxe manuscripts for wealthy humanist patrons -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-263) and index.

Introduction -- I. Books for Missionaries -- 7th-9th centuries: the written word as an essential tool for the early missionaries of Britain and Ireland, who produced books of extraordinary sophistication -- II. Books for Emperors -- 8th-11th centuries: books as treasure and as luxurious objects of display and diplomatic gifts in the courts of Charlemagne and his successors -- III. Books for Monks -- 12th century: the golden age of the monastic book, when monks in their scriptoria produced manuscripts for their libraries -- IV. Books for Students -- 13th century: the rise of the universities and the emergence of a professional book trade to meet the new need for textbooks -- V. Books for Aristocrats -- 14th century: the Age of Chivalry - a wealthy and newly literate aristocracy generating a new type of book, the secular romance -- VI. Books for Everybody -- 15th century: the emergence of the Book of Hours as a devotional book for ordinary households as well as the aristocracy -- VII. Books for Priests -- 13th-16th centuries: the Bibles, Missals, Breviaries, Psalters and other service books and handbooks that sustained the life of the Church -- VIII. Books for Collectors -- 15th-16th centuries: the revival of classical learning and the creation of de luxe manuscripts for wealthy humanist patrons -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index.

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