Format:
374 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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32 cm
ISBN:
1892850265
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9781892850263
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9781892850287
Content:
Published in conjunction with a collaborative exhibition of the same name held in 2016 and 2017 at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University's Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, this catalog provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. Entries by eighty-five international experts document, discuss, and reproduce more than two hundred and sixty manuscripts and early printed books, many of them little known before now. Beyond Words also explores the history of collecting such books in Boston, an uncharted chapter in the history of American taste. Of broad appeal to scholars and amateur enthusiasts alike, this catalog documents one of the most ambitious exhibitions of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts ever to take place in North America
Content:
Illuminating the Charles: collecting manuscripts in Boston -- I. Harvard University, Houghton Library. Manuscripts from church & cloister: The monastic scriptorium ; Authors & readers ; Guides for good living ; Songs of praise -- II. Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art. Manuscripts for pleasure & piety: Making & meaning ; Holy writ ; Before the book of hours: the Psalter & other prayer books ; Minding time: books of hours ; Love & death: the art of devotion ; Public worship ; The rise of the professions: medicine & law ; Secular pleasures: edification & entertainment -- III. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Italian Renaissance books: The Florentine humanist book ; Italian princely libraries ; Manuscripts of the classics ; Humanist texts ; Renaissance liturgical books ; Italian books of hours ; Book decoration & the advent of printing
Note:
Rückseite der Titelseite: "This catalogue is published by the McMullen Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections at the Houghton Library, Harvard University (September 12-December 10, 2016), McMullen Museum of Art, Bosotn College (September 12-December 11, 2016), and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (September 22, 2016-January 16, 2017)."
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
McMullen Museum of Art
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Houghton Library
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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Illuminierte Handschrift
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Ausstellungskatalog
Author information:
Netzer, Nancy
Author information:
Davis, Lisa Fagin
Author information:
Hamburger, Jeffrey F. 1957-
Author information:
Stoneman, William P. 1950-
Author information:
Eze, Anne-Marie 1979-
