One of the major examples of 14th century English illumination, this book presents for the first time the complete illustration cycle reproduced in color, with each miniature accompanied by a full descriptive note.

The Psalter of Robert de Lisle in the British Library

Sandler, Lucy Freeman

Oxford University Press

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

Arts & Photography

ALEXANDER, J.J.G.

Marrow, James H.

Graphic Design

New York Public Library

Meryl Bailey is Assistant Professor of Art History at Mills College, where she focuses on Venetian art and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Recent publications include "Punishment as Brotherly Love: Antonio Zanchi's Expulsion of the Profaners from the Temple and the Venetian Conforteria" (Artibus et Historiae, 2016) and "Carrying the Cross in Early Modern Venice" (Space, Place & Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City, ed. Diana Bullen Presciutti, Brill, 2017). Dr. Bailey's current research project focuses on the business of engraving in Venice in the late sixteenth century, exploring collaborative interactions between painters, printmakers, and patrons. Her work has been funded by generous grants and fellowships from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, and other organizations. Patricia Blessing is Assistant Professor of Medieval and Islamic Art History at Pomona College. She is the author of Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240-1330 (Ashgate, 2014) and co-editor, with Rachel Goshgarian, of Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500 (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Blessing's current projects focus on 15th-century Ottoman architecture, the materiality of architecture and textiles in the medieval Mediterranean, and the historiography of Islamic architecture. Her work has been supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the International Center of Medieval Art, the Society of Architectural Historians, the Barakat Trust, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Theresa Flanigan is Professor of Art History at The College of Saint Rose. She holds her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and has been a foreign fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Her current research focuses on women's speech and emotional expression in late medieval and Renaissance art and the historical understanding of emotional response to images in these periods. Her recent related publications include "Art, Memory, and the Cultivation of Virtue: The Ethical Function of Images in St. Antoninus' Opera a ben vivere," Gesta 53 (2014): 175-95; "Disciplining the Tongue: Archbishop Antoninus, the Opera a ben vivere, and the Regulation of Women's Speech in Renaissance Florence," Open Arts Journal 4 (2015): 41-60; and "Women's Speech in the Tornabuoni Chapel," Artibus et Historiae, 38 (2017): 205-30. She is also completing a book on The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence. Dennis Trout is Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His most recent book is Damasus of Rome: The Epigraphic Poetry (Oxford 2015) and he is currently preparing a monograph on the monumental verse of late ancient Rome. Lucy Freeman Sandler is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History, emerita, at New York University, the institution from which she received her Ph.D in 1964. Her main field of interest is manuscript illumination. Her most recent book publications are Illuminators and Patrons in Fourteenth-Century England: The Psalter and Hours of Humphrey de Bohun and the Manuscript Patronage of the Bohun Family (London: British Library, 2014) and (with Bernard Bousmanne), Der Peterborough-Psalter, The Peterborough Psalter, Le psautier de Peterborough, Commentary on the Facsimile Edition (Luzern: Quaternio Verlag, 2016). She was editor of the College Art Association Monograph Series (1970-75, 1986-80), Gesta (1991-94), and co-editor of Studies in Iconography (2009-15). She has held fellowships from the American Association of University Women (1960), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1967, 1977), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1988), and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2010) and is a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Studies in Iconography, Volume 40 (2019) (Studies in Iconography Journal)

Trout, Dennis

Blessing, Patricia

Bailey, Meryl

Flanigan, Theresa

History & Criticism

Medieval Institute Publications

In the third quarter of the 14th century, a clerk of the Exchequer compiled and wrote an encyclopedia of world knowledge for this own personal use. This manuscript, a mammoth work of 1100 folios and over 650 illustrations has survived in two large volumes, MSS Royal 6 E VI and 6 E VII, now in the British Library. In her authoritative text (Volume I), Professor Sandler indentifies, with intriguing methods of detection, the compiler and scribe of this vast encyclopedia as James le Palmer. She lists the sources on which he drew, covering topics such as theology, canon law, natural sciences, history of man, and the liberal arts. We are thus presented with a fascinating introduction to a medieval layman's quest for knowledge that tells us much about the intellectual aspirations of a fourteenth-century clerk. A notable feature of the compilation is that the entries, all in Latin, are for the very first time arranged alphabetically. By organising his entries in alphabetical order, James le Palmer made a pivotal contribution to the development of the modern encyclopedia, making the works of great interest to historians of the encyclopedia and lexicographers. The author also describes the different stages of production of the manuscript and distinguishes the work of several hands in the execution of the miniatures and initials that illustrate the entries in the Omne Bonum. The contents of these entries are summarized briefly in Volume II, where they are annotated with references to their relevant sources, and printed in the same alphabetical (Latin) order as in the original. In each case the illustration that accompanies the entry is reproduced.

Omne Bonum: A Fourteenth-Century Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 18) 2-Volume Set

Brepols Publishers

The author is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History emerita at New York University, Institute of Fine Arts , and a leading authority on English medieval manuscript illumination. This volume brings together twenty-eight of Professor Sandler's studies, focusing on illustrated manuscripts produced in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly on the illuminated psalters. They are arranged under four headings, 'Marginalia and Word Imagery,' 'Devotional, Visionary and Self-Images,' 'Illustrated Encyclopedias and Scholarly Texts,' and 'Studies of Individual Manuscripts, Artists and Themes.' The marginal illustrations in the psalters are a topic of particular interest, and there are a number of iconographic studies derived from this material. A second section features essays that look at the effect of manuscript imagery on its viewing, reading, and meditating audience. The third section deals with the illustrated encyclopedias of the period, particularly the Omne bonum , a fourteenth-century manuscript compiled and written by James le Palmer, a scribe in the London Exchequer. A final section deals with a number of manuscripts from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, in particular East Anglian works such as the Peterborough and Ramsey Psalters. Table of Contents Introduction; MARGINALIA AND WORD IMAGERY: A Series of Marginal Illustrations in the Rutland Psalter; Reflections on the Construction of Hybrids in English Gothic Marginal Illustration; A Bawdy Betrothal in the Ormesby Psalter; The Word in the Text and the Image in the Margin: The Case of the Luttrell Psalter; The Study of Marginal Imagery: Past Present, and Future; Pictorial and Verbal Play in the Margins: The Case of the British Library, Stowe MS 49; The Images of Words in English Gothic Psalters. DEVOTIONAL, VISIONARY, AND SELF-IMAGES: Face to Face with God: A Pictorial Image of the Beatific Vision; The Image of the Book-owner in the Fourteenth Century: Three Cases of Self-definition; The Wilton Diptych and Images of Devotion in Illuminated Manuscripts; The Chantry of Roger of Waltham in Old St Paul’s. ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND SCHOLARLY TEXTS: Notes for the Illuminator: The Case of the Omne Bonum; Omne bonum: Compilatio and Ordinatio in an English Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Century; Encyclopedia; Illustrations of Canon Law in the ‘Omne Bonum,’ an English Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Century; Index-Making in the Fourteenth Century: Archbishop Arundel’s Copy of the Gospel Commentary of William of Nottingham; The Role of Illustrations in James le Palmer’s ‘Omne Bonum’; John of Metz, The Tower of Wisdom. STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL MANUSCRIPTS, ARTISTS AND THEMES: The Historical Miniatures of the Fourteenth-Century Ramsey Psalter; Peterborough Abbey and the Peterborough Psalter in Brussels; A Follower of Jean Pucelle in England; Christian Hebraism and the Ramsey Abbey Psalter; An Early Fourteenth-Century English Breviary at Longleat; An Early Fourteenth-Century English Psalter in the Escorial; A Fragment of the Chertsey Breviary in San Francisco; Jena Pucelle and the Lost Miniatures of the Belleville Breviary; The Handclasp in the Arnolfini Wedding: A Manuscript in Precedent; Bedford in Brooklyn. Index. Acknowledgements.

Studies in Manuscript Illumination, 1200-1400

Pindar Press

Pindar Pr

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