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Making the Renaissance manuscript : discoveries from Philadelphia libraries

Title
Making the Renaissance manuscript : discoveries from Philadelphia libraries / Nicholas Herman.
Author
Herman, Nicholas
Publication
  • Philadelphia, PA : Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020.
  • Exton, PA : Brilliant
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania), issuing body.
  • University of Pennsylvania. Libraries. publishers.
  • Bryn Mawr College. Library. contributor.
  • College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library. contributor.
  • Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. contributor.
  • La Salle University, contributor.
  • Lehigh University. Library. contributor.
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art. Department of Prints and Drawings. contributor.
  • Rosenbach Museum & Library, contributor.
  • Temple University. Library. contributor.
  • Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, associated name.
Description
x-xv, 333 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
Summary
"Making the Renaissance Manuscript examines the making of the handwritten and hand-illuminated book during a time of great political, religious, and technological transformation in Europe. Through approximately forty loans from eight regional institutions, as well another forty items from Penn's own collections, this catalogue examines the full intellectual and artistic depth of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through a varied selection of extraordinary manuscirpts, cuttings and incunables, from the Philadelphia region"--Front cover flap.
Subject
  • Manuscripts, Renaissance > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Exhibitions
  • Manuscripts, Renaissance > Europe > History > Exhibitions
  • Manuscripts, Renaissance
  • Manuscrits à peintures
  • Manuscrits de la Renaissance
  • Europe
  • Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • History.
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) – ITC Isadora.
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) – Adobe Caslon Pro.
Note
  • "© 2020 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania All rights reserved" -- title page verso.
  • Includes half-title page.
  • "Published in conjunction with an exhibition in the Goldstein Family Gallery Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center On exhibit 10 February-19 May 2020" -- title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Lenders to the exhibtion -- Note to the reader -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: "To Hold the Renaissance in Our Hands" -- Material present: collecting late medieval and early modern objects in (and around) Philadelphia -- Making the renaissance manuscript: catalogue -- Crafting the Codex -- Authors , patrons, and bibliophiles -- The humanist scribe at work -- All'antica: between ornament and display -- From pen to press and back again -- Showcasing salvation -- Devotion by design -- Innovating for the liturgy -- Prayer, sermon, and song -- Transmitting knowledge -- Recasting Roman history -- Greek scholarship reborn -- The trivium: grammar, rhetoric, and logic -- The quadrivium -- arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music -- Politics, economics, and the merchant class -- Tradition and innovation in medicine -- Navigating a new world -- Reference list -- Index of manuscripts cited.
ISBN
  • 9780990448761
  • 0990448762
OCLC
  • on1140400060
  • SCSB-9730241
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library