A history of illuminated manuscripts / Christopher De Hamel.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Phaidon Press, 1994Edition: Second edition, revised, enlarged and with new illDescription: 272 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0714829498
- 9780714829494
- 0714834521
- 9780714834528
- Illuminated manuscripts
- 745.67
- ND2900 .D36 1994
- N2900 .D36 1994
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 745.67 DEH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A109801B |
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745.619951092 MCN The upright brush : Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy and Song literati politics / | 745.619957092 CHO A way with words : the calligraphic art of Jung Do-jun / | 745.67 BAS Trades and crafts in medieval manuscripts / | 745.67 DEH A history of illuminated manuscripts / | 745.67 WEL Royal Persian manuscripts / | 745.67088297 GRA Masterpieces of Islamic art : the decorated page from the 8th to the 17th century / | 745.6709 BOL Illuminated manuscripts : the book before Gutenberg / |
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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