Book Description
The author is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History at New York University , Institute of Fine Arts , and a leading authority on English medieval manuscript illumination.
This volume bring together twenty-six of Professor Sandler’s studies, focusing on illustrated manuscripts produced in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly on the illuminated psalters. The marginal illustrations in these psalters are a topic of particular interest, and there are a number of iconographic studies derived from this material. A separate section deals with the illustrated encyclopedias of the period, particularly the Omne bonum.
Contents
- Introduction
- Manuscripts, Artists and Themes
- The Historical Miniatures of the Fourteenth-Century Ramsey Psalter
- Peterborough Abbey and the Peterborough Psalter in Brussels
- A Follower of Jean Pucelle in England; Christian Hebraism and the Ramsey Abbey Psalter
- An Early Fourteenth Century English Breviary at Longleat
- An Early Fourteenth Century English Psalter in the Escorial
- A Fragment of the Chertsey Breviary in San Francisco
- Jean Pucelle and the Lost Miniatures of the Belleville Breviary
- The Handclasp in the Arnolfini Wedding: A Manuscript Precedent
- Marginalia and Word Imagery: A Series of Marginal Illustrations in the Rutland Psalter
- Reflections on the Construction of Hybrids in English Gothic Marginal Illustrations
- A Bawdy Betrothal in the Ormesby Psalter
- The Study of Marginal Imagery, Past, Present, and Future; Verbal and Pictorial Play in the Margins: The Case of Stowe 49
- The Images of Words in English Gothic Psalters; Devotional, Visionary and Self-Images: Face to Face with God: A Pictorial Image of the Beatific Vision
- The Image of the Book-owner in the Fourteenth Century: Three Cases of Self-definitionManuscript Images of Devotion and the Wilton Diptych
- The Chantry Chapel of Roger of Waltham in Old St Paul’s
- Illustrated Encyclopedias and Scholarly Texts: Notes for the Illuminator: the Case of the Omne bonum
- Omne bonum: Compilatio and Ordinatio in an English Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Century; Enciclopedia
- The Canon Law Illustrations of the Omne bonum, an English Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Century
- Index-making in the Fourteenth Century: Archbishop Arundel’s Copy of the Gospel Commentary of William of Nottingham
- The Role of Illustrations in James le Palmer’s Omne bonum
- John of Metz, The Tower of Wisdom; Additional Notes
- Index
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