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Beyond words : new research on manuscripts in Boston collections

Title: Beyond words : new research on manuscripts in Boston collections / edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Lisa Fagin Davis, Anne-Marie Eze, Nancy Netzer, & William P. Stoneman.
Publication: Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, [2021]

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xxxii, 361 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles; 32 cm.

Summary

"This abundantly illustrated volume, a companion to the exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections and its accompanying catalogue, aims to provide a broad overview of patterns of patronage and book production over the course of the High and late Middle Ages based on the eclectic holdings of Boston-area institutions. The essays, all relating to the history of the book, cover a wide range of topics, and the approaches adopted by the contributors are as varied as the materials they study. The result is not simply a wealth of fascinating insights into individual illuminated books, their makers, and their readers, but also an indication of how much remains to be learned about the materials to which the exhibition served as no more than an introduction."--

Series Statement

Text, image, context ; 8
Studies and texts ; 221

Uniform Title

Beyond words (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)
Text, image, context ; 8.
Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) ; 221.

Alternative Title

New research on manuscripts in Boston collections

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Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Note

Continuation of: Beyond words: illuminated manuscripts in Boston collections (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts : McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016).
The papers published in this volume were delivered at the international scholarly conference accompanying the exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, mounted simultaneously in the autumn of 2016 at three venues: Houghton Library, Harvard University (which focused on the monastic library); the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College (the layman's library); and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (the Italian humanist's library).

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Additional Formats (note)

Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Gilbert de la Porrée: the man and his manuscripts / Patricia Stirnemann -- Writing culture and society over the longue durée: the charters of Sawley Abbey, from Medieval Yorkshire to present-day Harvard, Houghton Library / Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak -- Boston Public Library MS q Med. 86 in the context of manuscript production in Delft / Kathryn M. Rudy -- Jean Bourdichon's Boston Hours and the miniature-as-object / Nicholas Herman -- Rereading Boccaccio in Étienne Chevalier's Les cents nouvelles (Houghton Library, MS Richardson 31) / Anne D. Hedeman -- Picturing and collecting Virgil in mid-fifteenth century France / Christine Seidel -- Vicarious entertainment for the mature aristocrat and bibliophile Louis of Gruuthuse (Houghton Library, MSS Typ 129 and 130) / Scot McKendrick -- Court patronage in Renaissance Italy: Hercules in illuminated manuscripts given as diplomatic gifts / Federica Toniolo -- Illumination in Rome and L'Aquila during the Schism and in Florence during the Council: artists and patrons of the Calderini Pontifical (Harvard, Houghton Library, MS Typ 1) / Francesca Manzari -- Niccolò da Ferrara's Polistorio (Houghton Library, MS Typ 329): new proposals on Don Simone Camaldolese and Mantuan artistic culture on the eve of the Renaissance / Ada Labriola -- Cristoforo Cortese and the Donato Master: Venetian liturgical manuscripts in American collections / Lilian Armstrong -- Illuminating law and order in Venice / Helena K. Szépe -- Kings as kin: picturing the English monarchy in Houghton Library, MS Typ 11 / Alixe Bovey -- The shapes of history: Houghton Library, MS Richardson 35 and Chronicles of England in codex and roll / Sonja Drimmer -- Hannibal's journey: ancient history, material philology, medieval illumination / Jessica Berenbeim -- Medieval manuscripts from the collection of Captain Jack Ball / Peter Kidd.

ISBN

9780888442215
0888442211
9781771104111 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020449073

OCLC

on1223496241
1223496241

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Columbia University Libraries