by Jonathan J. Alexander, James H. Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler with the assistance of Elizabeth Moodey and Todor T. Petev
New, reduced price!
The makers of medieval illuminated manuscripts invested their books with sparkle and visual energy, to stimulate delight, imagination, and memory -- to make of them objects that fascinate and charm as well as instruct. Specialists and non-specialists alike will love to look at these beautiful volumes for the quality of the illuminations and the aesthetic ebullience.
The Library's collection of nearly three hundred Western European illuminated manuscripts is one of the largest in America but also one that is very little known. Dating from the turn of the 10th century until well into the period of the Renaissance, these works give vivid testimony to the creative impulses of the often nameless craftsmen who continually discovered new ways of animating the contents of hand-produced books through inventive and sometimes exuberant manipulations of all the elements of the book: form and format, layout, script, decoration, illustration, and binding.
Paperback, with 200 color illustrations, 420 pages.
Originally $85.
Item Number: 190537500X
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