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Beyond words : illuminated manuscripts in Boston collections

Title

Beyond words : illuminated manuscripts in Boston collections / edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, William P. Stoneman, Anne-Marie Eze, Lisa Fagin Davis & Nancy Netzer.

Publication

[Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts] : McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, [2016]
[Chicago, Illinois] : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
©2016

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Description

374 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

Published in conjunction with a collaborative exhibition of the same name held in 2016 and 2017 at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University's Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, this catalog provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. Entries by eighty-five international experts document, discuss, and reproduce more than two hundred and sixty manuscripts and early printed books, many of them little known before now. Beyond Words also explores the history of collecting such books in Boston, an uncharted chapter in the history of American taste. Of broad appeal to scholars and amateur enthusiasts alike, this catalog documents one of the most ambitious exhibitions of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts ever to take place in North America.

Uniform Title

Beyond words (McMullen Museum of Art)

Alternative Title

Illuminated manuscripts in Boston collections

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published in conjunction with a collaborative exhibition of the same name held in 2016 and 2017 at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University's Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, this catalog provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. Entries by eighty-five international experts document, discuss, and reproduce more than two hundred and sixty manuscripts and early printed books, many of them little known before now. Beyond Words also explores the history of collecting such books in Boston, an uncharted chapter in the history of American taste. Of broad appeal to scholars and amateur enthusiasts alike, this catalog documents one of the most ambitious exhibitions of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts ever to take place in North America.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-359) and indexes.

Contents

Illuminating the Charles: collecting manuscripts in Boston -- I. Harvard University, Houghton Library. Manuscripts from church & cloister: The monastic scriptorium ; Authors & readers ; Guides for good living ; Songs of praise -- II. Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art. Manuscripts for pleasure & piety: Making & meaning ; Holy writ ; Before the book of hours: the Psalter & other prayer books ; Minding time: books of hours ; Love & death: the art of devotion ; Public worship ; The rise of the professions: medicine & law ; Secular pleasures: edification & entertainment -- III. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Italian Renaissance books: The Florentine humanist book ; Italian princely libraries ; Manuscripts of the classics ; Humanist texts ; Renaissance liturgical books ; Italian books of hours ; Book decoration & the advent of printing.

Call Number

JFG 17-12

ISBN

9781892850263
1892850265
9781892850287
1892850281

LCCN

2016934337

OCLC

944087154

Title

Beyond words : illuminated manuscripts in Boston collections / edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, William P. Stoneman, Anne-Marie Eze, Lisa Fagin Davis & Nancy Netzer.

Publisher

[Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts] : McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, [2016]

Distributor

[Chicago, Illinois] : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-359) and indexes.

Added Author

Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957- editor.

Stoneman, William P., editor.

Eze, Anne-Marie, editor.

Davis, Lisa Fagin, editor.

Netzer, Nancy, editor.

McMullen Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.

Houghton Library, organizer, host institution.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, organizer, host institution.

Research Call Number

JFG 17-12

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