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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: Nov 2008
ISBN 1 904597 39 4
Cloth Bound

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.

Contents

Introduction
MARGINALIA AND WORD IMAGERY:

I A Series of Marginal Illustrations in the Rutland Psalter
II Reflections on the Construction of Hybrids in English Gothic Marginal Illustration
III A Bawdy Betrothal in the Ormesby Psalter
IV The Word in the Text and the Image in the Margin: The Case of the Luttrell Psalter
V The Study of Marginal Imagery: Past, Present, and Future
VI Pictorial and Verbal Play in the Margins: The Case of British Library, Stowe MS 49
VII The Images of Words in English Gothic Psalters

DEVOTIONAL, VISIONARY, AND SELF-IMAGES:

VIII Face to Face with God: A Pictorial Image of the Beatific Vision
IX The Image of the Book-owner in the Fourteenth Century: Three Cases of Self-definition
X The Wilton Diptych and Images of Devotion in Illuminated Manuscripts
XI The Chantry of Roger of Waltham in Old St Paul's

ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND SCHOLARLY TEXTS

XII Notes for the Illuminator: The Case of the Omne Bonum
XIII Omne bonum : Compilatio and Ordinatio in an English Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Century
XIV Encyclopedia
XV Illustrations of Canon Law in the ‘Omne Bonum', an English Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Century
XVI Index-Making in the Fourteenth Century: ArchbishopArundel's Copy of the Gospel Commentary of William of Nottingham
XVII The Role of Illustrations in James le Palmer's ‘Omne Bonum'
XVIII John of Metz , The Tower of Wisdom

STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL MANUSCRIPTS, ARTISTS AND THEMES:

XIX The Historical Miniatures of the Fourteenth-Century Ramsey Psalter
XX Peterborough Abbey and the Peterborough Psalter in Brussels
XXI A Follower of Jean Pucelle in England
XXII Christian Hebraism and the Ramsey Abbey Psalter
XXIII An Early Fourteenth-Century English Breviary at Longleat
XXIV An Early Fourteenth-Century English Psalter in the Escorial
XXV A Fragment of the Chertsey Breviary in San Francisco
XXVI Jean Pucelle and the Lost Miniatures of the Belleville Breviary
XXVII The Handclasp in the Arnolfini Wedding : A Manuscript Precedent
XXVIII Bedford in Brooklyn

Index
Acknowledgements