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Author Grollemond, Larisa, author

Title The book of marvels : a medieval guide to the globe / Larisa Grollemond, Kelin Michael, Elizabeth Morrison, Joshua O'Driscoll ; with an epilogue by Noel Salazar
Published Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2024]
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Contents Introduction to the Book of Marvels / Joshua O'Driscoll, with Larisa Grollemond, Kelin Michael, and Elizabeth Morrison -- Envisioning the Medieval World: Encyclopedias, Maps, and Travel Writing / Joshua O'Driscoll -- Wonder and Fear in the Book of Marvels / Kelin Michael and Elizabeth Morrison -- Copying, Creation, and Collaboration in the Book of Marvels / Larisa Grollemond -- Epilogue: Imagining Otherness in a Marvelous World / Noel Salazar -- Descriptions of the Morgan and Getty Manuscripts -- List of Locations in the Book of Marvels -- Plates with Translations
Summary "A study of the medieval manuscript The Book of Marvels of the World, a fifteenth-century French illustrated guide to the globe"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2024)
Subject J. Paul Getty Museum. Manuscript. 124 -- Illustrations -- Exhibitions
Pierpont Morgan Library. Manuscript. M.461 -- Illustrations -- Exhibitions
SUBJECT Livre des merveilles du monde (Compilation) -- Exhibitions
Livre des merveilles du monde (Compilation) -- Illustrations -- Exhibitions
Subject Curiosities and wonders -- Early works to 1800 -- Exhibitions
Curiosities and wonders in art -- Exhibitions
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- France -- Exhibitions
Illumination of books and manuscripts, French -- Exhibitions
ART / General
Curiosities and wonders in art
Illumination of books and manuscripts, French
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
France
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs
Form Electronic book
Author Michael, Kelin, author
Morrison, Elizabeth, 1968- author.
O'Driscoll, Joshua, author
Salazar, Noel B., 1973- writer of afterword.
J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution, issuing body.
Pierpont Morgan Library, host institution.
LC no. 2023040607
ISBN 9781606069042
1606069047