Illuminating the Epic: Kassel Willehalm Codex and the Landgraves of Hesse in the Early Fourteenth Century (1996)

by Joan A. Holladay

Series: Monographs on the Fine Arts (54)

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This codex differs from other secular manuscripts of the Gothic period by its lavish illumination cycle and the firm identification of its patron and date of execution. The author examines the ways in which the illuminations interpret the text they accompany; places the codex in the contexts of the

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Illuminating the Epic: Kassel Willehalm Codex and the Landgraves of Hesse in the Early Fourteenth Century

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