Early Gothic Manuscripts 1190-1250 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, Vol. IV, Part 1) de Nigel J. Morgan - 1983-02-03

London/Oxford: Harvey & Miller Publishers/Oxford University Press, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, Moderate shelf handling wear. Volume II has a mild sun-fade to the spine and a minor ding near the top of the spine edge. Volume 1 276 pages; 330 illustrations. Volume II 373 pages; 462 illustrations. Folios; 13.5 inches tall.. Comprehensive scholarly survey of 188 early Gothic manuscripts illuminated in the British Isles during the 12th and 13th centuries, including a general introduction characterizing the early Gothic style, glossary of terms, bibliography, plate-by-plate catalog with commentary, various indices, and 732 illustrations on 225 plates, many in color [tipped-in], text figures, and two frontispieces. These two volumes together comprise part IV of A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles.

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