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Manuscripts Boston Collections

Foreword The illuminated manuscript collections housed in the Boston …

Manuscripts Illumination

I.4. Songs of Praise Essential to the outfitting of any church, liturgical …

Manuscripts Illumination

II.1. Making & Meaning Manuscripts, by definition, are handmade objects.

Manuscripts Illumination

II.3. Before the Book of Hours: The Psalter & Other Prayer Books No type of book speaks to the proliferation …

Manuscripts Book-binding

II.5. Love & Death: The Art of Devotion Devotional imagery presents a paradox. In theory, as …

Manuscripts Boston Collections

Preface & Acknowledgments An exhibition that focuses attention on an enormous …

Manuscripts Book-binding

I.2. Authors & Readers Authorship and copyright are concepts too often taken …

Manuscripts Chained Books

I.3. Guides for Good Living Monastic life was both communal and solitary, with …

Manuscripts Book-binding

II.8. Secular Pleasures: Edification & Entertainment A passage in Chretien de Troyes’s romance, Yvain; …

Manuscripts Book-binding

III.Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Italian Renaissance The celebrated golden age of Italian art and …

Manuscripts Illumination

III.1. The Florentine Humanist Book At the dawn of the fifteenth century, a …

Manuscripts Illumination

III.3. Manuscripts of the Classics In the Middle Ages, literacy entailed becoming litteratus, …

Manuscripts Book-binding

III.4. Humanist Texts Turning to “humanist texts” implies forsaking the “medieval.”

Manuscripts Book-binding

III.5. Renaissance Liturgical Books Despite a popularly held notion that the Italian …

Manuscripts Illumination

III.6. Italian Books of Hours Until very recently books of hours were considered …