TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Hamel,Christopher
TI  - A history of illuminated manuscripts
SN  - 0714829498
AV  - ND2900 .D36 1994
U1  - 745.67 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - London
PB  - Phaidon Press
KW  - Illumination of books and manuscripts, European
KW  - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
KW  - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance
KW  - Illumination of books and manuscripts
N1  - 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
ER  -