Product Description: The patronage, making, preservation, and use of medieval manuscripts across cultures and across the centuries: essays by eminent scholars in the field of manuscript studies. The essays in this collection pertain to art history, medieval Latin culture both ecclesiastic and legal, the history of vernacular literatures, and the devotional practices of the laity...read more

Product Description: In this volume honoring the well-known scholar of illuminated manuscripts, 38 senior scholars have contributed essays of their research, with b/w plates of the highest quality included for their illustration. There are essays on marginalia, the interaction of text and image, cultural context, and workshop methods...read more

Product Description: Illuminated legal texts rank high among the most splendidly decorated medieval manuscripts. Their historical and artistic significance has largely escaped even specialists in art and legal history. The long-recognized discrepancy between the importance of the material and its relative inaccessibility, as well as the rich Cambridge collections, provided the incentive for an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Glorious works of art as well as chronicles of a past age, illuminated manuscripts supply perhaps the finest and best-preserved evidence of what life was like during the medieval and Renaissance periods. Illuminated Manuscripts: Treasures of The Pierpont Morgan Library draws on one of the most extraordinary collections of painted books in the world to illustrate the angels, demons, and everyday denizens of the Middle Ages...read more