Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms
by Michelle Brown
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This revised edition offers concise definitions of many elements of illuminated manuscripts, demystifying the techniques, processes, materials, terminology, and styles used in the making of these precious books. It is beautifully illustrated with images of important manuscript illuminations from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and beyond. -- Provided by publisher.Tags
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This should have been advertised as a glossary. Entries are readable enough and she has a wonderful handle on her subject, but bouncing from place to place in the alphabetical listing of terms is a bit akward.
It don't get no better'n this.
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- Canonical title
- Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms
- Original publication date
- 1994
- First words
- FOREWORD This guide is designed to provide information for the public, students, and professionals alike about the history of manuscript production and its study:the contexts of production and the peop... (show all)le involved (contained in entries such as scribe, illuminator, master, workshop, stationer, patron, scriptorium, monastic production, and secular production); the physical processes and techniques employed (codicology); the types of text encountered (from liturgical volumes used in the performance of the mass and divine office and others, such as the book of hours, made for private devotions, to classical and medical texts as well as the romances and apocalypses commissioned by secular patrons); and the terminology applied to the elements, styles, and forms of illumination.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Zoomorphic motifs occur in other decorative contexts as well.
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