First edition. A catalogue of all the Italian manuscripts in Abbey's library. Each manuscript is illustrated by one or more black-and-white photographs and six illustrations are in color. With the Randeria bookplate. xliv, 187 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. thick tall 4to..

The Italian manuscripts in the library of Major J. R. Abbey,

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ALEXANDER, J.J.G.

Catalogs & Directories

FABER

Italian Renaissance Illuminations

Italian Renaissance illuminations

Chatto&Windus

George Braziller

<p>"The happiest, sweetest, and liveliest little book imaginable."€”John Canaday.Near the end of the fifteenth century, a Flemish artist known only as The Master of Mary of Burgundy painted one of the last illuminated manuscripts for ENgelbert of Nassau, a member of the courts of rulers of the Netherlands from Charles the Bold to Philip the Fair. This edition reproduces this magnificent book, now in the Bodlein Library, Oxford, as closely as possible to the original.</p>

The Master of Mary of Burgundy: A Book of Hours for Engelbert of Nassau : The Bodleian Library, Oxford

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

The New York Public Librarys collection of nearly three hundred Western European illuminated manuscripts is one of the largest in America but also one that is very little known. Dating from the turn of the tenth century unto well into the period of the Renaissance, these works give vivid testimony to the creative impulses of the often nameless craftsmen who discovered ever-new ways of animating the contents of hand-produced books through inventive and sometimes exuberant manipulations of all the elements of the book: form and format, layout, script, decoration, illustration, and binding. To introduce this magnificent collection and many of its most important works to scholars and the wider audience, The Splendor of the Word presents one hundred manuscripts of particular cultural, historical, and artistic significance, selected from the Librarys collection by three of the most distinguished scholars in the field Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Professor of Fine Arts at!  the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, a specialist in early medieval, Romanesque, and Italian illuminated manuscripts; James H. Marrow, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Princeton University, a specialist in late medieval illuminated manuscripts; and Lucy Freeman Sandler, Professor of Art History Emerita at New York University, a specialist in Gothic illuminated manuscripts. The makers of medieval illuminated manuscripts invested their books with sparkle and visual energy. They did so to stimulate delight, imagination, and memoryto make of them objects that fascinate and charm as well as instruct. One need have no knowledge of medieval languages or habits of thought to appreciate the high quality and the aesthetic ebullience of the finely crafted manuscripts shown here, for the very first time, to anyone interested in the ways that books help to define the social, intellectual, and imaginative horizons of their users.

The Splendor of the Word: Medieval And Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library

Sandler, Lucy Freeman

Marrow, James H.

Graphic Design

New York Public Library

<p>Based on lectures given at the University of Vienna, this book examines all types of book decoration and illumination between late Antiquity and the Renaissance from the point of view of format and style. Pacht explains the basic vocabulary and concepts by which this art-form is to be understood, and offers insights into the philosophy, theology, technology and culture underlying its history. His subjects include pictorial decoration in the organic structure of the book; the initial; bible illustration; didactic miniatures; illustration of the apocalypse; illustration of the psalter; the conflict of surface and space. Now available in paperback.</p>

Book Illumination in the Middle Ages: An Introduction (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History)

Pächt, Otto

Harvey Miller Pub

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