Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The grand medieval bestiary	Christian Heck	"The Grand Medieval Bestiary: Animals in Illuminated Manuscripts is a splendid pageant of the animal kingdom as the Middle Ages saw it, illustrated with miniatures of every period and style, many nev…	OL16727151W
Les Très riches heures du duc de Berry	Millard Meiss,Jean Longnon,Raymond Cazelles	Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry is a book of hours commissioned by John, Duke of Berry and currently preserved at the Musée Condé in Chantilly, France under the reference Ms. 65¹². It was crea…	OL19493150W
Illuminating women in the medieval world	Christine Sciacca	"When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In …	OL19725869W
Apocalypse illuminated	Richard Kenneth Emmerson	"Studies the illustration of Revelation in manuscripts from the ninth to the fifteenth century. Examines how twenty-five of the most important illustrated Apocalypses illustrate the biblical text and…	OL19740077W
Script as image	Jeffrey F. Hamburger	In the Middle Ages, writing conveyed far more than information. In contradistinction to the modern separation of image and text and, by implication, form and content, which was reified with the inven…	OL22329301W
Valère Maxime en français à la fin du Moyen Âge	Dubois, Anne (Art historian)	"Dans la seconde moitié du XVe siècle, de nombreux textes latins furent traduits en langue vernaculaire en France. C'est le cas des Facta et dicta memorabilia de Valère Maxime dont la traduction fut …	OL28591528W
Early Spanish manuscript illumination	Williams, John	Spanish culture is the result of many civilizations -- Visigoth, Jewish, Berber, Arabic -- which mingled with the traditions of the Romanized Celtic-Iberian population, once colonized by Carthage. Of…	OL3057486W
Dreams of subversion in medieval Jewish art & literature	Marc Michael Epstein	Europe's Jewish minority culture was subjected to a barrage of public images proclaiming the dominance of the Christian majority. This book is the first to explore the Jewish response to this assault…	OL3257423W
Liturgical life and latin learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425	Susan Marti,Jeffrey F. Hamburger,Eva Schlotheuber,Margot Elsbeth Fassler	Written by an international team consisting of two art historians, a historian, and a musicologist, this study explores the intellectual, scribal, artistic and musical culture of the Dominican nuns o…	OL32765573W
Medieval Picture Bible	William Noel	"The Morgan Picture Bible was designed to bring selected Old Testament stories into the thirteenth-century present of its original audience. The creators' original intention was to make these stories…	OL3739297W
The Uta Codex	Adam S. Cohen	276 p. : 29 cm	OL475743W
The St. Albans Psalter: An Anglo-Norman Song of Faith (Studies in the Humanities: Literature-Politi…	Kristine Edmondson Haney	"The St. Albans Psalter (c. 1125-1135), is generally regarded as the earliest surviving masterpiece of Anglo-Norman painting. Its extensive picture cycle includes over 200 historiated initials accomp…	OL5002299W
Astrology in medieval manuscripts	Sophie Page	"The art of predicting earthly events from the movements of the stars and planets exerts an enduring fascination. Medieval astrologers were sometimes feared as magicians, said to be in league with de…	OL5879266W
Music in medieval manuscripts	Nicolas Bell	"Music was an important element of cultural life throughout the Middle Ages. Most of our knowledge of medieval music comes from surviving manuscripts, almost all of them connected in some way with th…	OL5999414W
Monsters and grotesques in medieval manuscripts	Alixe Bovey	"The monstrous creatures that embellish the pages of medieval manuscripts have a long pedigree. From their origins in classical antiquity, the Bible, scientific writing and folklore they travelled th…	OL6070129W
Saints in Medieval Manuscripts	Greg Buzwell	64 p. : 25 cm	OL9206073W