a survey of manuscripts illuminated in france Already published
a survey of manuscripts illuminated in france
Romanesque manuscripts The Twelfth Century
LAWRENCE NEES
by Walter Cahn
gothic manuscripts 1260 – 1320 by Alison Stones Part I: In two volumes, 1130 pages, 915 illustrations isbn 978-1-872501-95-6
renaissance manuscripts The Sixteenth Century by Myra D. Orth In two volumes, 720 pages, 375 illustrations isbn 978-1-872501-30-7
renaissance illuminators in paris Artists & Artisans 1500 — 1715 by Richard H. Rouse & Mary A. Rouse In one volume, 280 pages, 60 illustrations isbn 978-1-912554-28-7
Frankish Manuscripts The Seventh to the Tenth Century
~ Frankish Manuscripts
Part II: In two volumes, 1200 pages, 555 illustrations isbn 978-1-905-375-95-0
Lawrence Nees
In two volumes, 480 pages, 410 illustrations isbn 978-1-872501-60-4
a survey of manuscripts illuminated in france
a survey of manuscripts illuminated in france
Frankish Manuscripts The Seventh to the Tenth Century by LAWRENCE NEES Frankish Manuscripts covers the earliest period in this series devoted to manuscripts illuminated in France. The two volumes explore those manuscripts that originate in the period before the kingdom of France emerged at the end of the tenth century. From the seventh to the tenth century most of modern France was ruled by kings of the Franks, from dynasties known as Merovingian and Carolingian, whose territories also included significant portions of other modern nations, especially the Low Countries, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The introductory essay in Volume I offers an overview of salient issues in this creative period, formative for later medieval manuscripts produced in France and elsewhere, in the former Frankish territories and beyond; the volume includes 341 photographs from the manuscripts in the catalogue, the great majority reproduced in colour. Volume II comprises a detailed catalogue of 100 manuscripts from this large region, each with a detailed description, an interpretive commentary focused on the decoration of the text as well as illustrations, and a survey of previous scholarly literature, including digital access when available. The catalogue includes some of the most famous early medieval manuscripts, decorated with luxury materials and exceptionally beautiful script, ornament and illustrations. In the spirit of a survey intended to show the range of Frankish illumination, it also includes manuscripts of ancient and contemporary poems, scientific works, commentaries, a cookbook, and one manuscript in a vernacular language. Together, these two volumes provide the most comprehensive survey of manuscript illumination in Francia, its large corpus of illustrations making the manuscripts more readily available for study not only by scholars of illumination but also by others interested in early medieval culture. Lawrence Nees is Professor in the Department of Art History and H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities at the University of Delaware. He is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His books include The Gundohinus Gospels (Medieval Academy of America, 1987), A Tainted Mantle: Hercules and the Classical Tradition at the Carolingian Court (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), Early Medieval Art (Oxford, 2002), and Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem (Brill, 2016), and the edited volume Approaches to Early-Medieval Art (Medieval Academy of America, 1998).
I Volume One: Text & Illustrations
In two volumes, 708 pages, 330 illustrations, Bibliography, Indexes front cover: Lothar Psalter, David, London, BL, (See cat. 62) back cover: Augustine, Quaestiones in Heptateuchon, Incipit page, Paris, BnF, (See cat. 11)
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