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Journal articles on the topic "Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic"
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Šitina, Ana. "Časoslov Blažene Djevice Marije (Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis) iz Znanstvene knjižnice u Zadru." Ars Adriatica, no. 4 (January 1, 2014): 267. http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/ars.500.
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The illuminated Book of Hours dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary which was originally held in the former Paravia Library is today located at the Research Library in Zadar. Unfortunately, no information exists about this manuscript. It is bound between covers made of wood veneer and sheathed with black leather. It consists of 156 folios which contain the Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the book of hours dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the book of hours dedicated to the Holy Spirit, Holy Cross, a portion of the office for the dead, seven funerary psalms and various prayers for specific occasions. The text is written in a single column on folios made of vellum (8 x 11.4 cm). It is written in literary Latin, in the Italian-style Gothic script. The text is written in black ink which dominates the manuscript while the rubrics are in red. The text begins with a calendar of which only January, February, November and December remain. The painted decorations feature in the initials and in the margins; there are no stand-alone illustrations filling an entire text-free page. The manuscript has three types of illuminated initials: litterae historiate, litterae dominicalis and litterae ferialis. Of those, there are six litterae historiatae, the subjects of which follow the aforementioned offices contained in the text. Each decorated littera historiata is located within the text, which is framed by a wide border filled with a decorative rinceaux-type band, the main element of which is ivy enhanced with interwoven flower motifs. The Litterae dominicales were rendered so as to form stylized floral shapes and elements dominated by an intense blue, red, green and yellow colour. Initials which resemble stylized flowers are framed on both sides by an L-shaped vegetal scroll which is most commonly composed of multi-coloured blue and red flowers, leaves, and gold and black “fruits”, that is, the motif of a sun disc with rays. The Litterae ferialis were depicted in two ways, either in red and blue or in gold and blue. If the letter is blue, the decoration and the dense graphic ornament are in a contrasting colour such as red, and vice versa, the latter sometime accentuated with tiny gilt details. Each initial is accompanied by a littera arabescata with a small undulating graphic ornament descending from the litterae ferialis along the text. The Book of Hours contains only four Litterae dominicales (fols 15v, 28r, 31r and 38v). Most pages feature a littera dominicalis and a littera ferialis. Litterae arabescatae, which descend from the ornamental bases of the litterae ferialis, consist of three spiral scrolls with a necklace-like sequence of motifs such as birds, flowers, and peculiar huts with volute-like ornaments which resemble pagodas, and these are then interspersed with other, much smaller motifs, for example crosses, flowers and beads. Decorative margins found on the pages with the illuminated litterae historiatae display features of a sporadic Mannerist influence in the newly established refinement of the classical Renaissance, but also a solidity which is in contrast to the lush late Gothic drôleries which had dominated before. For example, on in the decorative margin on folio 59v there is a masked head. With regard to the painted initials inside the litterae historiatae, certain details, such as the rendering of volume with emphasized black outlines, the positioning of the bodies and similar designs, demonstrate compatibility with a number of contemporaneous examples of manuscript illumination which have been preserved in Croatia. In the first place are the illuminated manuscripts from the Treasury of Split Cathedral such as the image of king David in the initial B in the fifteenth-century Psalterium Romanum (ms 633, fol. 5, Cathedral Treasury, Split). Compared to the Renaissance manuscript illuminations at Zadar, it can be noted that the figural illuminations, the litterae historiate, in this Book of Hours are stylistically closest to the Missal of Abbot Deodato Venier. In her article Manoscritti miniati di area veneta e padana nelle biblioteche della Croazia: alcuni esempi dal XIII. al XVI. secolo, F. Toniolo linked the marginal decoration of the Zadar Book of Hours to the type used by the Venetian miniaturist Benedetto Bordone, to whom Susy Marcon too attributed the Zadar codex. However, F. Toniolo pointed out that she was not convinced that this miniaturist decorated it himself, stating that it is more likely that it was the work of a different illuminator from his workshop. She then compared the Zadar Book of Hours with a work of a miniaturist who has been named The Second Master of the Grifo Canzoniere (Il Secondo Maestro del Canzoniere Grifo) after a collection of poems composed by the court poet Antonio Grifo, in which he decorated several pages. She compared the Zadar Book of Hours with fol. 233 of the Grifo Canzoniere, which depicts the Triumph of Anteros and Venus Genetrix surrounded by a marginal decoration similar to the one at Zadar. The miniaturist who illuminated the Zadar Book of Hours must have interacted with or worked within the circle of artists whose works Toniolo identifies as the comparative material for the Zadar illuminations, which can be immediately observed at first sight. For example, the marginal decoration is typically Venetian, and similar to the type used by Julije Klović (Giulio Clovio), Girolamo da Cremona, Benedetto Bordone and other minaturists who worked in this circle. However, if one compares figural illuminations, only a number of differences can also be noted. Although the proposed definition of this circle of manuscript illuminators is highly likely, in my opinion, the issue of the miniaturist responsible for the Zadar codex remains open to debate. Since there is no information about the manuscript, and given that this is an easily portable object, it is difficult to say whether it was produced locally or brought to Zadar. Based on the stylistic and comparative analysis presented in this article, I suggest that this Book of Hours may have originated in the manuscript illumination circles of Ferrara or even Lombardy, and I argue that the workshop in question demonstrates either the strong influence of the Venetian school or the fact that some of its minaturists maintained connections with the Venetian lagoons.
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Manzari, Francesca. "From Icons of Evil to Features of Princely Pleasure: Mongols in Fourteenth-Century Italian Illuminated Manuscripts." Ming Qing Yanjiu 22, no. 2 (March 12, 2019): 191–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340029.
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AbstractThe representation of Mongols in Late-Medieval Italian illuminated manuscripts undergoes a transformation in the fourteenth century. In literature connected to the Crusades and in historical writings they are usually portrayed as symbols of Evil or of the Deadly Vices. In other instances, nonetheless, they seem to lose this significant iconic value and to turn into an exotic component for the amusement of princely patrons. It is certainly not by chance that illuminations comprising Mongols were produced in the cities most strongly tied to the East by trading routes and commercial interests, like Venice and Genoa. The appearance of Mongols within more widespread iconographies, both sacred and secular, and their metamorphosis as exotic decorations are connected to manuscript illumination at the Angevin court in Naples. This contribution re-evaluates both types of instances, with the purpose of achieving a survey of these types of representation in Italian gothic illuminated manuscripts.
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Ralph, Karen. "Performance, Object, and Private Devotion: The Illumination of Thomas Butler’s Books of Hours." Religions 11, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11010020.
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This article considers the major cycles of illumination in two Books of Hours belonging to Thomas Butler, seventh Earl of Ormond (c.1424–1515). The article concludes that the iconography of the two manuscripts reflects the personal and familial piety of the patron and was designed to act as a tool in the practice of devotion.
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Nash, Penelope. "Illuminated manuscripts and incucabula in Cambridge: A catalogue of western book illumination in the Fitzwilliam museum and the Cambridge colleges, part five: Illuminated incunabula, volume one: Books printed in Italy [Book Review]." Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 15 (November 1, 2019): 127–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.35253/jaema.2019.1.6.
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Review(s) of: Illuminated manuscripts and incucabula in Cambridge: A catalogue of western book illumination in the Fitzwilliam museum and the Cambridge colleges, part five: Illuminated incunabula, volume one: Books printed in Italy, by Andriolo, Azzura Elena and Reynolds, Suzanne, (London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2017) hardcover, 288 pages, RRP 149 pounds/Euro175; ISBN: 9781909400856.
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Nurfalina, Yuliana, Ahmad Taufiq Hidayat, and Yulfira Riza. "MANUSCRIPT DECORATIONS: ILLUMINATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS ON SOME EXISTING MANUSCRIPTS IN KERINCI." Al-Tsaqafa : Jurnal Ilmiah Peradaban Islam 20, no. 2 (December 28, 2023): 142–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.15575/al-tsaqafa.v20i2.27665.
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ABSTRACTThis research is presented to examine the decoration contained in the manuscripts in Kerinci, because it is seen from the problem that in the development of civilization and the tradition of writing manuscripts it is common to change the form of illumination and illustration in manuscripts due to various factors which are the result of human creativity. For the method that the author uses in this research is using a qualitative method with a codicological approach, whose primary source focuses on several Kerinci manuscripts that have been digitized. Then for other sources this research is assisted by references such as books, articles, and other sources related to this study. The result of this paper is knowledge and description of the decoration on the manuscript in the form of illumination and illustration on several manuscripts found in the Kerinci region in the form of manuscript decoration and explanation of the meaning of the contents of the manuscript.Keywords: Decoration, Script, Illumination, Illustration, Kerinci. ABSTRAKPenelitian ini dihadirkan untuk menelisik hiasan yang terdapat pada naskah yang ada di Kerinci, dikarenakan dilihat dari persoalan bahwa dalam perkembangan peradaban dan tradisi penulisan naskah lumrah terjadi perubahan bentuk iluminasi maupun ilustrasi pada naskah karena disebabkan oleh berbagai faktor yang merupakan hasil dari kreativitas manusia. Untuk metode yang penulis gunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu memakai metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan kodikologi, yang sumber primernya berfokus kepada beberapa naskah-naskah Kerinci yang sudah digitalisasi. Kemudian untuk sumber-sumber lainnya penelitian ini dibantu oleh referensi seperti buku, artikel, dan sumber lainnya yang berkaitan dengan kajian ini. Adapun hasil dari tulisan ini adalah pengetahuan dan deskripsi tentang hiasan pada naskah berupa iluminasi dan ilustrasi pada beberapa naskah yang terdapat di wilayah Kerinci yang berupa hiasan naskah dan penjelasan dari makna isi naskah.Kata Kunci: Hiasan, Naskah, Iluminasi, Ilustrasi, Kerinci.
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Azizah, Faras Puji. "Illumination on the Bamboo Manuscript "Karang Mindu" Collection of Bakhtiar Hanif Kerinci." Journal of Philology and Historical Review 1, no. 1 (June 5, 2023): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.61540/jphr.v1i1.37.
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The Karang Mindu manuscript is one of the ancient manuscripts originating from Kerinci, one of the collections of Bakhtiar Hanif, which we know that these ancient manuscripts are very important to protect, because they are relics of our ancestors that have high historical value. Not only that, from ancient manuscripts we can find out about the culture of the past about the illumination on the bamboo manuscript "Karang Mindu" collection of Bakhtiar Hanif Kerinci. The purpose of this article is to find out about the manuscript. Overall, the method used in this research is to use a qualitative method using a literature study, by collecting the main source from the EAP Library with documentation number EAP 117/63/1/15, besides that the author also collects sources from various previous studies, books, articles, journals, which are related to the research theme. The result of this research is the content of the manuscript text Karang Mindu explains about a poet whose love is unrequited, besides that there are also interesting illuminations such as Pucuk Rebung, and Keluk Paku. The manuscript motive also describes the life of ancient people who always utilized nature for their needs. Therefore, studying the illuminations in the manuscript helps to strengthen and maintain Kerinci's cultural heritage or local wisdom.
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Kitzinger, Beatrice. "Wandalgarius’ Letters of the Law: Figural Initials and Book Culture in the Late Eighth Century." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 84, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 291–324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zkg-2021-3001.
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Abstract Long sidelined by art historians, the Wandalgarius Codex is a compendium of legal texts dated to 793 that represents an early venture in a trend associated with the 790s: populating initial letters with lively figures. This article centers the Wandalgarius Codex in discussion of experimental book illumination in the late eighth century. The decade saw re-definition of the visual organization of books, the uses illumination could serve, and the ways manuscripts in many genres reflected and shaped projects of education and reform. The essay sets Wandalgarius’ approach to initials in conversation with the well-known Gellone Sacramentary, and investigates the scribe-draftsman’s characterization of his own work as an ambitious contemporary book-maker.
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Paris-Popa, Andreea. "Breaking the Contract between God and the Visual-Literary Fusion: Illuminated Manuscripts, William Blake and the Graphic Novel." American, British and Canadian Studies 30, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 133–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2018-0008.
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Abstract This essay follows three different stages of the fusion of images and words in the tradition of the book. More specifically, it tackles the transformation undergone by the initially religious combination of visual figures and scriptural texts, exemplified by medieval illuminated manuscripts into the spiritual, non-dogmatic, illuminated books printed and painted by poet-prophet William Blake in a manner that combines mysticism and literature. Eventually, the analysis reaches the secularized genre of the graphic novel that renounces the metaphysical element embedded in the intertwining of the two media. If ninth-century manuscripts such as the Book of Kells were employed solely for divinely inspired renditions of religious texts, William Blake’s late eighteenthcentury illuminated books moved towards an individual, personal literature conveyed via unique pieces of art that asserted the importance of individuality in the process of creation. The modern rendition of the image-text illumination can be said to take the form of the graphic novel with writers such as Will Eisner and Alan Moore overtly expressing their indebtedness to the above-mentioned tradition by paying homage to William Blake in the pages of their graphic novels. However, the fully printed form of this twentieth-century literary genre, along with its separation from the intrinsic spirituality of the visual-literary fusion in order to meet the demands of a disenchanted era, necessarily reconceptualize the notion of illumination.
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Bel'skaya, Anna O. "FEATURES OF COMPOSITION IN THE ART OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS BY ARTHUR RACKHAM." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. Series Philosophy. Social Studies. Art Studies, no. 3 (2020): 131–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2020-3-131-149.
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The article studies the book illustration by the English artist Arthur Rackham (1867–1939), the features of his work in the context of time and the experience that can be used in the process of teaching the book design and illustration. Here, research interest is focused on six main techniques that the artist actively used when illustrating in the children’s books in England in the late 19 – early 20th century. The name of A. Rackham and his graphics, are entirely associated with the English Art Nouveau. Having studied the graphic heritage of A. Rackham, on the example of his seven illustrations for children’s books, one can trace how A. Rackham’s creative credo was formed. The artist managed to move away from imitation of the English Victorian style, the Eastern and Western charts, medieval manuscripts and came to his own version of the Neo-Gothic in the art of the English book
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Kelders, Ann. "De Gouden Eeuw van de Bourgondisch-Habsburgse Nederlanden." Queeste 27, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 63–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/que2020.1.003.keld.
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Abstract The Royal Library of Belgium (kbr) has opened a new permanent museum showcasing the historical core of its collections: the luxurious manuscript library of the dukes of Burgundy. Centred around a late medieval chapel that is part of kbr’s present-day building, the museum introduces visitors to medieval book production, the historical context of the late medieval Low Countries, and the subject matter of the ducal library. The breadth of the dukes’ (and their wives’!) interests is reflected in the manuscripts that have come down to us, ranging from liturgical books over philosophical treatises to courtly literature. The Museum places late medieval book production squarely in its historical and artistic context. Visitors are not only introduced to the urban culture that provided a fruitful meeting place between artists, craftsmen, and patrons, but also to the broader artistic culture of the late Middle Ages. By presenting the manuscripts in dialogue with other forms of art such as panel paintings and sculpture, the exhibition stresses that artists at times moved between various media (e.g. illumination and painting) and were influenced by iconography in other forms of art.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic"
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Hoffmann, Ingrid-Sibylle. "Der Meister der Pollinger Tafeln : Wege der Erneuerung in der bayerischen Malerei des mittleren 15. Jahrhunderts /." Weimar : VDG Verl. und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2929787&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Barceló, Plana Alba. "La il·lustració dels cicles bíblics en les haggadot catalanes del període gòtic: un estudi iconogràfic." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/666812.
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La present investigació doctoral té l’objectiu d’elaborar un estudi iconogràfic sobre els cicles bíblics d’un grup de manuscrits hebreus catalans del segle XIV. En concret, aquests manuscrits són haggadot, llibres per ser llegits en família durant el sopar pasqual. Tot i que el seu programa iconogràfic és variat, on s’inclouen també il·luminacions relacionades amb el contingut del text de l‘haggadà, la tesi focalitza l’atenció en els episodis bíblics miniats, la majoria dels quals dedicats al Gènesi i a l’Èxode.
Cal fer esment que es tracta d’un tema complex pel que fa a la problemàtica i les diverses hipòtesis a l’entorn de la configuració i evolució de la iconografia jueva des de temps antics. Diversos estudis han abordat el tema des de múltiples perspectives i enfocaments, però a causa del gran interès i riquesa de les haggadot, no es poden deixar de fer noves observacions i consideracions en relació a les qüestions que encara queden obertes. Les haggadot catalanes il·luminades són un testimoni de primer ordre no només en l’art jueu, sinó que també aporten elements per entendre els cicles bíblics cristians en un context català o afí. La relació entre iconografia jueva i cristiana, com demostren les obres, és evident, així que l’estudi dels cicles bíblics d’aquests manuscrits pot obrir portes també per entendre els cicles veterotestamentaris cristians.
Amb la intenció d’analitzar els temes de la bíblia hebrea en les haggadot catalanes, s’han tingut en compte una sèrie de factors que són clau per determinar la seva iconografia, com seria el contingut i missatge del text de l’haggadà i el significat de la festivitat de la Pasqua i el sopar ritual. S’ha considerat bàsic, també, analitzar el context artístic i històric on emmarcar la il·luminació dels manuscrits a la Catalunya gòtica, així com establir les característiques generals de les haggadot i els elements que han intervingut en la seva gènesi i creació, des dels seus artífexs fins als seus propietaris. El cos central de la tesi correspon a l’estudi, escena per escena, de les diverses vinyetes bíbliques que apareixen als manuscrits. Aquesta anàlisi ha tingut en compte les fonts literàries seguides –tant bíbliques com provinents del midraix i el Targum–, per comprovar d’on poden procedir els diversos motius iconogràfics inserits a les escenes, així com els models i correspondències artístiques amb altres obres de context jueu i cristià. Amb la finalitat d’establir comparacions i determinar les particularitats de les haggadot catalanes, s’han tingut en compte un bon nombre d’obres que comparteixen els mateixos temes
iconogràfics. Això ha permès fer valoracions en relació a quina tradició segueixen les imatges i establir fins a quin punt són fruit d‟una còpia dels cicles cristians o si inclouen especificitats úniques pròpies de la tradició jueva. Per valorar les escenes en el seu conjunt, també s’ha dedicat un capítol al significat i funció del programa bíblic tenint en compte la resta del programa iconogràfic, el motiu de l’elecció d’aquests temes i la funció de les imatges en el llibre segons el context historicocultural, unes qüestions que són fonamentals en un estudi iconogràfic.The present doctoral research aims to elaborate an iconographic study on the biblical cycles of a group of Hebrew Catalan manuscripts from the 14th century. In particular, these manuscripts are Haggadot, books to be read with the family during the Passover meal. Although their iconographic programme is varied, also including illuminations related to the content of the Haggadah text, the thesis focuses on the miniated biblical episodes, most of which are dedicated to the Genesis and the Exodus. It is important to highlight that this is a complex topic because of the different hypothesis concerning the configuration of Jewish art. Several studies have dealt with the subject from multiple perspectives and approaches, but because of the great interest and wealth of the Haggadot, new observations and considerations need to be made with respect to the issues that remain open. The illuminated Catalan Haggadot are not only a testimony of prime importance in Jewish art, but they also provide elements to understand the Christian biblical cycles in a Catalan context or similar. The relationship between Jewish and Christian iconography, as the works show, is obvious. Therefore, studying the biblical cycles of these manuscripts can also open doors to understand the Christian vetero-testamentary cycles. With the intention of analysing the topics pertaining to the Hebrew Bible in the Catalan Haggadot, a number of factors which are key to determine their iconography have been taken into account, such as the content and message of the Haggadah text and the meaning of the Passover and ritual dinner. It has also been considered necessary to analyse the artistic and historical context in which the illumination of the manuscripts of Gothic Catalonia was formed, as well as establishing the general features of the Haggadot and the elements that have contributed to their genesis and creation, from their authors to their owners. The main body of the thesis corresponds to the study, scene by scene, of the several biblical vignettes that appear in the manuscripts. This analysis has taken into account the literary sources consulted, such as the biblical sources and those from the Midrash and the Targum, to prove where the different iconographic motifs inserted in the scenes may come from, as well as the models and artistic correspondences with other works in Jewish and Christian contexts. In order to compare and determine the particularities of the Catalan Haggadot, a large number of works which share the same iconographic themes have been taken into account. This has made it possible to carry out assessments with respect to the tradition that the images follow and to establish the extent to which they are a result of a copy of the Christian cycles or whether they include unique special features specific to the Jewish tradition. In order to assess the scenes as a whole, a chapter has been dedicated to the meaning and function of the biblical programme while taking into account the rest of the iconographic programme, the reason for choosing these themes and the function of the images in the book according to the historical-cultural context, all of which are fundamental issues in an iconographic study.
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Drechsler, Stefan Andreas. "Making manuscripts at Helgafell in the fourteenth century." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=236533.
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This thesis examines a cultural revolution that took place in the Icelandic artistic landscape during the medieval period. Within just one generation (c. 1350–1400), the house of canons regular of Helgafell rose to become the most important centre of illuminated manuscript production in western Iceland. This study delivers a comprehensive and critical multidisciplinary study that combines methodologies and sources from the fields of Art History, Old Norse-Icelandic Manuscript Studies and Medieval Nordic History. It maps important changes in the art historical market, as well as major movements of ideas between three distinct manuscript cultures: from Helgafell in Iceland, Norwich and surrounding East Anglia in England, and the region between Bergen and Trondheim in Western Norway. By conducting cross-disciplinary research, the philological and historical data, combined with a sound social network analysis methodology, this study presents a comprehensive approach that respects both the historical setting of the illuminated manuscript production and the products themselves. It thereby contributes to a new and multidisciplinary area of research that studies not only one but several western European cultures in relation to similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence. By using the interdisciplinary approach outlined above, it offers a detailed perspective of one cultural site – Helgafell – in particular in regard to its artistic connections to other ecclesiastical and secular scriptoria in the broader North Atlantic region.
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Hunt, Elizabeth Moore. "Illuminating the borders of northern French and Flemish manuscripts, ca. 1270-1310 /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3137712.
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Sheppard, Jennifer M. "The Giffard Bible Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 752 /." New York : Garland Pub, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/11970124.html.
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Magruder, James A. "The Sinope gospels an illuminated gospel book as anti-Chalcedonian polemic /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Gil, Marc. "Du Maître du Mansel au Maître de Rambures le milieu des peintres et des enlumineurs de Picardie, ca. 1400-1480 /." Lille : A.N.R.T., Université de Lille III, 2000. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/30345.
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Jackson, Cailah. "Patrons and artists at the crossroads : the Islamic arts of the book in the lands of Rūm, 1270s-1370s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2d687f25-fb80-4470-b259-72714ba24386.
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This dissertation is the first book-length study to analyse the production and patronage of Islamic illuminated manuscripts in late medieval RÅ«m in their fullest cultural contexts and in relation to the arts of the book of neighbouring regions. Although research concerning the artistic landscapes of late medieval Rūm has made significant progress in recent years, the development of the arts of the book and the nature of their patronage and production has yet to be fully addressed. The topic also remains relatively neglected in the wider field of Islamic art history. This thesis considers the arts of the book and the part they played in artistic life within contemporary scholarly frameworks that emphasise inclusivity, diversity and fluidity. Such frameworks acknowledge the period's ethnic and religious pluralism, the extent of cross-cultural exchange, the region's complex political situation after the breakdown in Seljuk rule, and the itinerancy of scholars, Sufis and craftsmen. Analyses are based on the codicological examination of sixteen illuminated Persian and Arabic manuscripts, none of which have been published in depth. In order to appropriately assess the material and to partially redress scholarly emphases on the constituent arts of the book (calligraphy, illumination, illustration and binding), the manuscripts are considered as whole objects. The manuscripts' ample inscriptions also help to form a clearer picture of contemporary artistic life. Evidence from further illuminated and non-illuminated manuscripts and other textual and material primary sources is also examined. Based on this evidence, this dissertation demonstrates that Rūm's towns had active cultural scenes despite the frequent outbreak of hostilities and the absence of an effective centralised government. The lavishness of some manuscripts from this period also challenges the often-assumed connection between dynastic patronage and sophisticated artistic production. Furthermore, the identities and affiliations of those involved in the production and patronage of illuminated manuscripts reinforces the impression of an ethnically and religiously diverse environment and highlights the role that local amīrs and Sufi dervishes in particular had in the creation of such material.
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Baker, Donna Tsuruda. "The artistic and sociological imagery of the merchant-banker on the book covers of the Biccherna in Siena in the early Renaissance /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6244.
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Pulliam, Heather. "Opening the senses : the Gospel book as an instrument of salvation as articulated by the minor decoration and full-page illustrations of the Book of Kells." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15322.
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This thesis argues that the minor decoration and full-page images of the Book of Kells reflects a cohesive theme: the role of the gospel book in man's apprehension of God. This is demonstrated by an examination of the decorated initials and smaller images in relation to the text and a reinterpretation of the full-page images within the context of patristic commentary and the writings of the period. It is argued that the decorated initials and minor imagery are not merely ornamental but instead emphasize and comment upon the text. They do so in three ways: Firstly, they draw the eye to passages of gospel text that describe the visual apprehension and recognition of Christ as the Son of God. In demonstrating this, the assumption that the decorated initials operate in a traditional manner, such as marking lections or Eusebian sections, is rejected. The atypical function of the decoration, highlighting themes rather than liturgical or content divisions, indicates the unique function of the manuscript. Secondly, it is argued that the decorated initials employ the metaphorical imagery of the Psalms to describe the distinction between the manuscript's audience who acknowledge Christ as the Son of God, and those described within the text as confused and unable to recognize the identity of Christ despite his presence in their midst. Thirdly, the imagery of the decorated initials describes the manner in which the Godhead is literally contained within the text of the gospel book. The larger images also emphasize the recognition of Christ and distinguish between those who look to the Word of God and those who fail to do so. Additionally, the full-page imagery instructs the audience in the use of the manuscript. To an even greater extent than the minor decoration, the larger images articulate the role of the Gospel book and liturgy as a visible guide to an invisible deity and shield against temptation.
Books on the topic "Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic"
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Sandler, Lucy Freeman. Studies in manuscript illumination, 1200-1400. London: Pindar Press, 2008.
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Oliver, Judith. Gothic manuscript illumination in the diocese of Liege (c. 1250-c. 1330). Leuven [Belgium]: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988.
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Landesbibliothek, Württembergische. Die gotischen Handschriften der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1996.
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College Art Association of America., ed. Five illuminated manuscripts of Giangaleazzo Visconti. University Park, Pa: Published for College Art Association by the Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.
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König, Eberhard. Das liebentbrannte Herz: Der Wiener Codex und der Maler Barthélemy d'Eyck. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1996.
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Assirelli, Marco. I libri miniati di età romanica e gotica / saggi e catalogo di Marco Assirelli, Massimo Bernabò, Giovanna Bigalli Lulla ; introduzione di Maria Grazia Ciardi Duprè Dal Poggetto. Assisi: Casa editrice francescana, 1988.
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Assirelli, Marcello. I libri miniati di età romanica e gotica / saggi e catalogo di Marco Assirelli, Massimo Barnabò, Giovanna Bigalli Lulla ; introduzione di Maria Grazia Ciardi Duprè Dal Poggetto. Assisi: Casa Editrice Francescana, 1988.
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Harris, Neil. "Costs We Don’t Think About: Rubrication and Illumination." In Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-332-8/018.
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Rubrication, or the hand-finishing of manuscripts and (very) early printed books, falls between several areas of competence; however, it often tells us important things about the book and its early history; it also had a cost, and in description it is important to distinguish between ‘professional’ and ‘amateur’ rubrication. A copy of a Venetian incunable printed in 1474 in the collections of the Boston Public Library has on its final leaf a contemporary rubricator’s note, with the summary of the costs of illumination and rubrication. The edition concerned was maybe sold through the Zornale of Francesco de Madiis, the ledger of a Venetian bookseller, which records the sales of some 25,000 books between 1484 and 1488. These sales, however, mostly concerned books sold as unbound sheets, though occasionally bound copies are recorded with a consequent increase in price. Discovering the expense of rubrication and illumination, albeit in this one instance, makes it possible to understand better the real cost of purchasing a 15th-century book.
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Jackson, Cailah. "Saūtıū ibn Hḥ asan: A Mevlevi Patron of Erzincan." In Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s, 169–225. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451482.003.0005.
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The fourth and final chapter focuses on the patronage of one individual, who emerges from surviving material as the most prolific manuscript patron of late medieval Rum. The three manuscripts discussed in this chapter were commissioned by Sharaf al-Din Sati ibn Hasan, an amir, history writer and Mevlevi devotee. The key manuscripts are a copy of the Masnavi of Sultan Walad from 1366, a two-volume Divan-i Kabir from 1368 and a 1372 copy of the Masnavi, both by Jalal al-Din Rumi. Several manuscripts belonging to Sati’s son, Mustanjid, are also considered. Although a production centre is not named in the manuscripts, the patron and his family were based in Erzincan. This chapter outlines and contextualises the political and cultural activities of Sati and Mustanjid and considers where the manuscripts may have been produced. Moreover, the distinctiveness of the manuscripts’ illumination, and the patron’s connection to the Jalayirids, generates a discussion concerning the relationship between the arts of the books of Rum and the Mongol successor states.
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Blair, Sheila S., and Jonathan M. Bloom. "The Islamic World." In The Oxford History of the Book, 183–205. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192886897.003.0008.
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Abstract Because of the sanctity of the revelation and the desire to record it faithfully, writing and books have always played an extraordinarily important role in the Islamic world. Islamic culture has spanned a millennium and a half, from the early seventh century to the present day, and exists around the globe from southern Spain and North Africa to Indonesia and beyond. Following a brief introduction to the principles of Arabic script, this chapter surveys this vast production in four broad chronological blocks: Qur’an manuscripts from the first centuries of Islam; the transition from parchment to paper in medieval times; deluxe books with illustrations produced from the late thirteenth century to the early seventeenth; and other forms and formats typical of more recent times including albums, loose-leaf Qur’an manuscripts from Africa, printing, and artists’ books. The purpose is to investigate books from the Islamic lands not only as written texts but also as physical objects that shed light on important social and intellectual questions such as the change from the oral to the written, rates of literacy, identification of readership, the roles of illustration and illumination, collecting, preservation, and libraries.
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"La Biblioteca pubblica veneziana e gli incunaboli miniati." In Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-332-8/029.
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Venice was central to the production of printed books in the 15th-century and illumination continued to be applied to this new type of books, beyond the age of the manuscript. However, the illuminated incunabula preserved today in the Library of the Serenissima do not represent a noticeable percentage of the production of value. As is known, very few specimens printed on parchment or with miniatures entered the Marciana collections. Yet, the activity of the press was favoured by Bessarion, who included his remarkable Roman incunabula among his legacy to San Marco. The Roman incunabula of the Bessarion collection, published between 1468 and 1472, have characteristics that are entirely similar to the manuscripts he had commissioned in the last years of his life. The incunabula that entered the library in the later centuries, chiefly following the suppressions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, are the result of different priorities.
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Atbaş, Zeynep. "Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi." In Cengiz Han ve Mirası, 339–36. Turkish Academy of Science, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.53478/tuba.2021.036.
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"Ottoman sultans showed a great interest in books; on the one hand, they had their palace workshops prepare manuscripts ornamented with unique illustrations and illuminations; on the other hand, they collected books created in other locations of the Islamic world through various means, such as, gifting, looting, and purchasing. The subject of this article involves the artistic manuscripts from the Ilkhanid era that entered the Topkapı Palace Treasury. Most manuscripts in the Topkapı Palace Library consist of copies and sections (juz’) of the Koran. With their illumination and binding, these large-format books designed by the skillful illuminators and bookbinders of the Ilkhanid era are early fourteenth-century masterpieces of Islamic art of the book. Among these are Koran sections prepared for the famous Ilkhanid ruler, Sultan Uljaytu Khodabanda, and the renowned vizier, Rashid al-Din. Some examples were written by the most illustrious Islamic calligraphers, Yaqut al-Musta’simi and Arghun Kamili, illuminated by the famous artist of the era who worked in Baghdad, Muhammad b. Aybak b. Abdallah, and bound by bookbinder Abd al-Rahman. The Ilkhanid era was also a time when fascinating and important manuscripts were prepared in terms of book illustration. Two of the three Mongol-era manuscripts in the Topkapı Palace collection are copies of the Jami’at-Tawarikh—a general history of the world prepared by a commission led by the vizier Rashid al-Din under the order of the Ilkhanid ruler Ghazan Khan— while the third is a copy of the Garshaspnama. In addition, some paintings that appear in one of the palace albums belong to a volume of the Jami’at-Tawarikh on the history of Mongol khans, which has not survived. The significant and unique paintings of the Ilkhanid era are the Miʿrajnama paintings made by Ahmed Musa featured in the album prepared for Bahram Mirza, the brother of the Safavid sultan, Shah Tahmasp. The preface of the album written by Dust Muhammad refers to the famous painter Ahmed Musa, who lived in the era of the Ilkhanid ruler Abu Said, to have “removed the veil from the face of painting and invented the painting that was popular in that era.” In addition, the author states that he illustrated a Miʿrajnama. However, only the eight album pages with miʿraj images have survived this work. Through their bindings, illuminations, calligraphy, and illustrations, Ilkhanid era manuscripts from the Topkapı Palace constitute a vital collection that demonstrates the advanced level reached by the arts of the book during this era. "