Early Gothic Manuscripts 1190-1250 (Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles) Unknown - 1983

Oxford University Press, 1983-02-03. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in excellent condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. Edges of dust jacket are sun faded.

Harvey Miller Publishers, London, first edition, 1982-1988. Cloth, folio, 34 cm,. 276 pp, 330 ills, 98 pp of plates (some colour) + 374 pp, ills (some colour). From the blurb to Part One: "This volume, Part One of Early Gothic Manuscripts, covers the period from 1190 to 1250, up to the middle years of Henry III's reign - that is from the Great Canterbury Psalter to the famous Chronicles of Matthew Paris. The 94 manuscripts catalogued here show the range and variety of English miniature painting in the full flowering of the early 13th century. Such famous works as the Westminster, Munich and Imola Psalters, the Lothian Bible and the Bible of Robert de Bello, the Guthlac Roll, the Psalter in New College, Oxford illustrated by William de Brailes (the first named English artist to establish a secular workshop), as well as Bestiaries, Herbals and Lives of Saints, are included. They illustrate the transition from a predominantly monastic patronage to one involving a wider secular interest in… Leer más