This book is the first detailed analysis of an exquisitely illuminated thirteenth-century Parisian manuscript (The Royal Library, Copenhagen) which was owned by Christina of Norway (1234-1262), daughter of Håkon IV and wife of Philip of Castile and León. New information is provided about the Psalter?'s medieval and later components, its liturgical and other functions, missing illuminations and texts, as well as its provenance and date. Furthermore, the stylistic and iconographic similarities between the Psalter and some of the most important manuscripts illuminated in Paris in the Period, like the three-volume Moralized Bibles, are discussed. Suggestions also are made about the meanings the texts and images might have had for their intended audience.

The Christina Psalter: A Study of the Images and Texts in a French Early Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript

Vidas, Marina

Religion & Spirituality

Museum Tusculanum Press

The Copenhagen Bohun Manuscripts provides a detailed analysis of the components of two exquisitely illuminated fourteenth-century English manuscripts, the Hours of the Virgin and the Lives of the Virgin Mary, St. Margaret, and Mary Magdalene. Based on pictorial as well as documentary evidence, Marina Vidas offers a detailed assessment of the manuscripts’ patronage, provenance, imagery, and texts. The result is a fascinating insight into the remarkable production of English illuminated manuscripts of this period.

The Copenhagen Bohun Manuscripts: Women, Representation and Reception in Fourteenth-Century England (Danish Humanist Texts and Studies)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

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The Christina Psalter: A Study of the Images and Texts in a French Early Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript

The Copenhagen Bohun Manuscripts: Women, Representation and Reception in Fourteenth-Century England (Danish Humanist Texts and Studies)