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Russian illuminated manuscripts

Title

Russian illuminated manuscripts / Olga Popova ; [translated from the Russian by Kathleen Cook, Vladimir Ivanov and Lenina Sorokina].

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Publication

New York : Thames and Hudson, 1984.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	ND3175 .P67 1984	Off-site

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Description

30 pages, 48 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits; 28 cm

Summary

Russian illuminated manuscripts represent an achievement little known in the West; for they are not placed on public display in the Soviet Union because of their fragility, nor are they easily studied, even by visiting scholars. This book collects and illustrates the finest and most representative examples, chosen by a Russian expert with full access to the greatest treasures. The selection ranges from the earliest-dated Russian illuminated manuscript to have survived--illuminated in the early eleventh century in Kiev--to a sixteenth-century Moscow manuscript that stands at the close of a period of unique greatness. During the five centuries covered by this selection, local as well as the large and important centers of manuscript illumination made their contributions to the art, until eventually, from the diversity emerges a characteristically "Russian" style of illumination--warm, radiant, meditative, reflecting a spiritual climate unique to Russia. Each of the miniatures is reproduced full-page and in color, with an introduction and commentary describing what is known of the illuminator and the circumstances of its creation. -- Back cover.

Subject

ISBN

0500273103
9780500273104

LCCN

83070804

OCLC

11252669
SCSB-2342659

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries