Title Western illuminated manuscripts : a catalogue of the collection in Cambridge University Library / Paul Binski and Patrick Zutshi ; with the collaboration of Stella Panayotova

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 506 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles (some color) Contents The catalogue -- British Isles -- France -- Flanders -- Northern Netherlands -- Germany and Austira -- Italy -- Spain Summary Cambridge University Library's collection of illuminated manuscripts is of international significance. It originates in the medieval university and stands alongside the holdings of the colleges and the Fitzwilliam Museum. The University Library contains major European examples of medieval illumination from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, with acknowledged masterpieces of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance book art, as well as illuminated literary texts, including the first complete Chaucer manuscript. This catalogue provides scholars and researchers easy access to the University Library's illuminated manuscripts, evaluating the importance of many of them for the very first time. It contains descriptions of famous manuscripts, for example the Life of Edward the Confessor attributed to Matthew Paris, as well as hundreds of lesser-known items. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the catalogue contains descriptions of individual manuscripts with up-to-date assessments of their style, origins and importance, together with bibliographical references Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 454-473) and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Cambridge University Library -- Catalogs SUBJECT Cambridge University Library fast Subject Manuscripts -- England -- Cambridge -- Catalogs Illumination of books and manuscripts, European -- Catalogs Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Catalogs Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance -- Catalogs ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- General. Illumination of books and manuscripts, European Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance Manuscripts England -- Cambridge Genre/Form Catalogs Form Electronic book Author Zutshi, Patrick Panayotova, Stella. Cambridge University Library. ISBN 9781139092753 1139092758 9780511780479 0511780478

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