ART HIST 415: Image and Text in Medieval Manuscripts (Spring 2025) : Print Reference Sources

Includes instructions for recreating illuminated alphabets from six historical periods, ranging from the Celtic to the Renaissance. Diagrams for upper- and lower-case letters are accompanied by ideas for borders and decorations, and full instructions for gilding.

One of the world's leading experts on English manuscripts defines some 1,500 terms, including types of manuscript, their physical features, writing implements, writing surfaces, scribes, scripts, postal markings, and seals.

Provides a synopsis of each of the major phases of script development, a bibliography at the beginning of each section, and comments on regional and chronological diffusion where appropriate. Each plate is accompanied by a facing page of commentary.

In this new series of fascicles, all images contained in English Late Gothic manuscripts from libraries throughout the world will be catalogued according to a carefully prescribed template, described, classified, indexed and illustrated.

What is a florilegium? What is an incipit? What is batarde script? This book defines and discusses definitions the techniques, processes, and materials used in medieval illuminated manuscripts.

A survey of European manuscript illumination from the fourth to the 16th century. Alexander discusses the social and historical context of the illuminators' lives, considers their methods of work, and influences.

Provides a comprehensive orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies, heavily illustrated.

Medieval manuscript expert Christopher de Hamel selects and discusses a range of illuminated manuscripts from The British Library's unparalleled collection. He also explores the role of illuminators in the medieval book trade - how books were commissioned, the patron's expectations, how illuminators worked with scribes, and the materials and techniques they used.

This book explores how medieval manuscripts were understood in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Essays describe how the illustration of texts has changed since the eighteenth century and how text itself has interacted with visual art.

A thorough, copiously illustrated history of Christian medieval Christian iconography. One copy is located in the Reference Room (does not circulate) and one copy is available for checkout in the stacks.