The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club

The Manuscripts Men tells of twelve men and women, from the eleventh century to the twentieth, who all share an overwhelming obsession with illuminated manuscripts. The saint, the patron, the bookseller, the artist, the antiquary, the collector, the rabbi, the savant, the librarian, the editor, the forger and the curator had very different reasons for their passion, but manuscripts animated the lives of them all. Christopher de Hamel takes us into in their homes and workplaces, from the monasteries and synagogues of Normandy and Moravia to the universities of Germany and the museums of America, to chart a kinship of minds and to peer into these extraordinary lives among manuscripts. In the pages of his book, remarkable manuscripts tumble through the centuries, connecting a French prince and a Greek peasant and an Afro-American curator. This is a story about society and manuscripts, what manuscripts do for people, and why they mattered and still matter to us. It is also a story of greed, discovery and disaster and of the unquenchable joy in the greatest and most treasured books ever made.

Christopher De Hamel

Allen Lane.

Penguin

Illuminated manuscripts survive in great numbers from the Middle Ages. They are often beautifully preserved, enabling us to appreciate the skilled design and craftsmanship of the people who created them.Christopher de Hamel describes each stage of production from the preparation of the vellum, pens, paints and inks to the writing of the scripts and the final decoration and illumination of the book. He then examines the role of the stationer or bookshop in co-ordinating book production and describes the supply of exemplars and the accuracy of texts. He follows the careers of a number of specific scribes and illuminators who emerge not as anonymous monks but as identifiable professional lay artisans. He also looks at those who bought the completed books, why they did so, and how much they paid.His survey ranges from the eleventh century through the golden age of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to the luxurious manuscripts existing at the invention of printing.

Medieval Craftsmen Scribes & Illuminators /anglais

BRITISH MUSEUM

The Corpus Clock

Fromanteel Ltd

Gilding the Lily: a Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library

University

Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library

Lilly Library

Book by De Hamel, Christopher n Silver, Joel.

Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered

Joel Silver

The Caxton Club

No manuscript is an island. We may consider medieval illumination as a single characteristic of the whole Middle Ages, but every manuscript is part of the evolving history of European art and culture, and every one belongs to a place and period. The Sandra Hindman Collection is a remarkable journey through time and location. Every illuminated cutting described here is a microcosm of a larger history. A sublime initial from a twelfth-century Bible from France is part of a setting which includes Chartres Cathedral, the Crusades and Abelard; two late thirteenth-century narrative miniatures of saints from northern Italy have stepped from in a world inhabited by Giotto and Dante and the basilica of Santa Croce in Florence; a miniature by the Berlin Master of Mary of Burgundy belongs in age of Rogier van der Weyden and Hans Memling; a painting from a choir book by the Master B.F. can hold its place with Leonardo da Vinci and Palestrina. Manuscripts were always at the heart of intellectual and visual culture. For thirty years Sandra Hindman has been selecting and refining a collection of perfect medieval miniatures which are the quintessence of their time. Each is a window which illuminates a world. The history of stained glass, architecture, fresco painting, tapestries and wood carving, as well as medieval literature, religion, music and romance, are all made slightly clearer and more focused by looking at the illuminated miniatures chosen for exhibition here.

The Medieval World at Our Fingertips: Manuscript Illuminations from the Collection of Sandra Hindman (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Harvey Miller Publishers

Das Bestiarium aus Peterborough: Wunder der Tierwelt in Bildern der Gotik

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