Research Catalog

Title

The Murthly hours : devotion, literacy and luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West / John Higgitt.

Author

Higgitt, John.

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2000.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

British Library.

Description

xxii, 362 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm +

Summary

• "The Murthly Hours is a luxurious manuscript, fashionably illuminated by Parisian artists of the late thirteenth century. Following its rediscovery in 1980, at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, it is now one of the treasures of the National Library of Scotland (MS 21000).".
• "The Murthly Hours: Devotion Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West examines the texts of the book of hours, the additions and the illumination of both parts of the manuscript, and traces the history and use of the book from the thirteenth century to the present.
• Through close examination of the Murthly Hours John Higgitt raises broader discussions about contemporary illumination in France and England, the early book of hours, literacy and illuminated manuscripts in medieval Scotland, aristocratic taste, and the meaning (or lack of meaning) of the marginal imagery. The book also includes an edition and discussion by Ronald Black of the Gaelic charms and other fragments, which may be the second oldest examples of Gaelic written in Scotland.".
• "This book will have a broad appeal to anyone with a serious interest in the history of medieval art, manuscripts, private devotion and literacy, as well as in the history of thirteenth-century England and later medieval Scotland."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The British Library studies in medieval culture

Uniform Title

British Library studies in medieval culture.

Subject

• National Library of Scotland
• Murthly hours
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, English
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > England
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > France

Note

• Co-published by the British Library.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Origins and History of the Murthly Hours from the Thirteenth Century to the Present -- Ch. 3. The Writing and Decoration of the Book of Hours -- Ch. 4. The Murthly Hours and Illumination in France and England during the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century -- Ch. 5. Meanings and Diversions in the Decoration of the Book of Hours -- Ch. 6. Devotion and Literacy: the Murthly Hours and the Early Book of Hours in England and France -- Ch. 7. The Full-Page Miniatures -- Ch. 8. The Murthly Hours and the Illuminated Manuscript in Medieval Scotland -- Ch. 9. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Collation -- Appendix 2. The Ruling -- Appendix 3. The Calendar of the Murthly Hours -- Appendix 4. The Original Contents of the Murthly Hours -- Appendix 5. Later Additions in Latin and French -- Appendix 6. Later Additions in Gaelic (Transcription, Translation and Commentary by Ronald Black) -- Appendix 7. Calendar Fragment found under the Paste-Down (MS 21000 A) --
• Appendix 8. The Decoration of the Bas-de-page: a Survey of Subjects.

ISBN

0802047599 :

OCLC

• ocm45438571
• SCSB-3885765

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries