Research Catalog

Title

Illuminating the book : makers and interpreters : essays in honour of Janet Backhouse / edited by Michelle P. Brown and Scott McKendrick.

Publication

London : British Library ; Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Michelle (Michelle P.)
• McKendrick, Scot.
• Backhouse, Janet

Description

314 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. (some col.); 26 cm.

Summary

Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters is published in honour of Janet Backhouse, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at The British Library, who retired in 1998 after a 35-year career at the British Museum and Library. Many eminent scholars and colleagues have contributed essays reflecting Janet's own research interests, particularly in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, and in the interaction between English collectors and continental book producers.

Series Statement

The British Library studies in medieval culture

Uniform Title

The British Library studies in medieval culture.

Subject

• Backhouse, Janet > Bibliography
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
• Illumination of books and manuscripts
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > England
• Manuscripts, English (Old)

Genre/Form

• Festschriften.
• Mélanges (Recueils)

Note

• "The published writings of Janet Backhouse": p. 299-305.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick -- Memoir : Janet Backhouse, colleague and friend / Pamela Porter and Shelley Jones -- Sarah and Hagar : laughter and tears / Ruth Mellinkoff -- Pictorial and verbal play in the margins : the case of British Library, Stowe ms. 49 / Lucy Freeman Sandler -- The Master of François de Rohan : a familiar French Renaissance miniaturist with a new name / Myra D. Orth -- An unknown manuscript made for Philip the Good / Nicole Reynaud -- The "large letters" of the Litlington Missal and Westminster Abbey in 1383-84 / Pamela Tudor-Craig -- Two illuminated guild registers from Bedfordshire / Richard Marks -- Sir Thomas Wriothesley and his heraldic artists / Ann Payne -- Jean Fouquet and Italy : " ... buono maestro, maxime a ritrarre del naturale" / Mark L. Evans -- Illumination for Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini (1442-1507) / Jonathan Alexander -- Landscape as Leitmotif : a reintegrated book of hours illuminated by Simon Bening / Thomas Kren -- Some new observations on the Farnese Hours in the Morgan Library (M. 69) / William M. Voelkle -- The "Rogers" leaf of the Hours of Etienne Chevalier / Christopher de Hamel -- "Her moost lovyng and fryndely brother sendeth gretyng" : Anne Boleyn's manuscripts and their sources / James P. Carley -- Sir Robert Cotton, collector and connoisseur? / Michelle P. Brown -- Appendix: The published writings of Janet Backhouse / Andrew Prescott.

ISBN

• 0712345876
• 0802044115 (Canada (University of Toronto Press))

LCCN

^^^99164780^

OCLC

39270242

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library