Peterborough Psalter in Brussels and Other Fenland Manuscripts Unknown - 1974

Harvey Miller, London, first edition, 1974. Cloth, blindstamped cover device, folio, 38 cm,. 175 pp, 346 ills (8 in colour), facs, 1 map. From the blurb - "The Peterborough Psalter in Brussels, an elaborately illustrated early 14th century English manuscript, was produced by a group of artists whose work has survived in other books of the period: the Ramsey Psalter in New York and in St. Paul-in-Lavantthal, Austria, and the Gough Psalter in Oxford. These books are linked in style and pictorial subjects to several others, the Barlow Psalter and Canonici Apocalypse in Oxford and the Crowland Apocalypse in Cambridge. Together these six manuscripts - chiefly made for use in Fenland monasteries - reveal a great deal about important aspects of Gothic manuscript illumination: the artistic personality and scope of individuals, even anonymous ones, the working procedure of a secular atelier; and the roles of patrons in commissioning and acquiring manuscripts. Reconstruction of the Fenland group is… Leer más

New York Graphic Society, 1974-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Used - good - dust jacket shows moderate use wear and some aging to color - book has a name inked on the ffep - sound useful copy.

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