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Medieval Western

Studies in Manuscript Illumination, 1200–1400

by Lucy Freeman Sandler

24 x 17 cm 620 pp. 218 illus.
£150.00
Publication: April 2007
ISBN 1 904597 39 4
Cloth Bound

The author is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History at New York University , Institute of Fine Arts , and a leading authority on English medieval manuscript illumination.

This volume bring together twenty-six of Professor Sandler’s studies, focusing on illustrated manuscripts produced in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly on the illuminated psalters. The marginal illustrations in these psalters are a topic of particular interest, and there are a number of iconographic studies derived from this material. A separate section deals with the illustrated encyclopedias of the period, particularly the Omne bonum.

Contents

Introduction
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
Jean Pucelle and the Lost Miniatures of the Belleville Breviary
The Handclasp in the Arnolfini Wedding: A Manuscript Precedent
Marginalia and Word Imagery: A Series of Marginal Illustrations in the Rutland Psalter
Reflections on the Construction of Hybrids in English Gothic Marginal Illustrations
A Bawdy Betrothal in the Ormesby Psalter
The Study of Marginal Imagery, Past, Present, and Future; Verbal and Pictorial Play in the Margins: The Case of Stowe 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-definitionManuscript Images of Devotion and the Wilton Diptych
The Chantry Chapel 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; Enciclopedia
The Canon Law Illustrations of 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; Additional Notes
Index