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Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms (Looking At...)
Michelle P. Brown
Getty Publications
Getty Publications
What is a florilegium? What is an incipit? What is batarde script? This book--part of the Museum's popular Looking at series--offers definitions of these and numerous other techniques, processes, and materials used in medieval illuminated...
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Nature Illuminated: Flora and Fauna from the Court of Emperor Rudolf II
Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg
Getty Publications
Getty Publications
The most important legacy of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II is the Mira calligraphiae monumenta , a manuscript comprised of illuminated pages of calligraphy. Around 1561 a master calligrapher wrote the text as proof of his preeminence among...
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The Book of Kells: Selected Plates in Full Color
Dover Publications
Dover Publications
Painstakingly reproduced from a rare facsimile edition, this volume contains full-page decorations, portraits, illustrations, plus a sampling of textual leaves with exquisite calligraphy and ornamentation. The 32 full-color illustrations include...
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Faces of Power and Piety (The Medieval Imagination)
Erik Inglis
Getty Publications
Getty Publications
Faces of Power and Piety is the second in the Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books that draw on manuscript illuminations in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular...
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Beasts Factual and Fantastic (The Medieval Imagination)
Elizabeth Morrison
Getty Publications
Getty Publications
Beasts Factual and Fantastic is the first in the Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books that will draw on manuscript illuminations from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Each volume will focus on a particular theme or subject as...
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The Bedford Hours: A Medieval Masterpiece
Eberhard Konig
British Library
British Library
The Bedford Hours is considered by many to be the most sumptuous Book of Hours ever created by an illuminator’s hand—as well as one of the greatest treasures possessed by the British Library. It once belonged to John, Duke of Bedford,...
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Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library
Elaine Wright
Art Services International
Art Services International
Throughout history, people have assembled albums that record their lives and the world around them. Among the most remarkable of all albums ever created are those made in the years 1600-1657 for the emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan. The Mughal...
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