Illuminated Manuscripts 120 illustrations E-Book

Andrej Sterligow

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 74

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Those who have had the chance to hold a medieval manuscript in their hands cannot fail to have been impressed by the feeling of being in touch with a long-passed epoch. Back when a book was a true handicraft and every copy the result of a laborious process, the object was more a work of art than a volatile commercial product. The Mega Square Illuminated Manuscripts puts the reader in touch with amazing medieval illustrations and unique adornments, which document the imaginative power of their creators.

Leseprobe

Tamara Woronowa and Andrej Sterligow

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ISBN: 978-1-78160-865-4

Contents

CHRONOLOGY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A

A Rose and Solomon’s Seal

About the Fabled Trojan Origin of French People

Account of a Converted Noble Roman Woman

Account of a Devout Monk who after his Death Appeared at Night to the Sexton of his Monastery

Account of Damnation of a Money-Lender and Salvation of a Beggar Woman to whom the Holy Virgin and Virgins Appear

Adam Naming the Animals

Allegory Illustrating the Treatise “De la Fortitude”

Allegory Illustrating the Treatise “De la Prudence”

Angel Appearing before King Evalach

Atlas Holding the Terrestrial Globe and Archimedes Measuring it with Compasses

Avicenna and the Translator of his Work, Represented by a Monk Below (Initial of book 3)

B

Beehive

Beginning of a Section

C

Canon Table

Christ Entering Jerusalem and Christ’s Arrest (top), the Washing of the Feet and the Prayer of the Calice (bottom)

Christ in Majesty (top), the Author, Lactantius (bottom) (Opening Page of Book 1)

Coat of Arms of René d’Anjou and Jeanne de Laval

Creation of Eve, Temptation and Expulsion

Creation of the World (Opening Page)

Crossing a River with the Help of Pontoons and Fascines

Crucifixion (top) and Deposition (bottom)

D

Deer

Destruction of the Greek Fleet Lured by False Shore Fires

Dispute of a Shepherd and Shepherdess

E

Elephant

Enthroned Louis XII Dictacting a Reply to Hector of Troy

Exodus

Extraction of Aloe, Gold, Alum and Antimony

F

Fauvel Sets Off to Meet Fortune

First Canon Table

Francis I, Surrounded by his Court, Receiving Anne de Montmorency (Frontispiece)

G

Gaiete Sets off to Meet Billas

Galley Fleet on a River

Girart and Oriana

Greek Ships Caught in a Tempest

H

How St John Was Called by Christ from Earthly to Divine Marriage

Humanist Author in his Study (Opening Page)

I

Illustration of a Battle during the Great Schism

Initial of the Second Book of Kings

Initial to Psalm 1

Initial to Psalm 26

Initial to Psalm 51

Initial to the Book of Daniel, Daniel in the Lion’s Pit

Initial to the Book of Ezekiel

Initial to the Prayer “O Gloriosa Virgo Maria”

J

Jason Sets off to Capture the Golden Fleece

Joust between the Count Ferry of Lorraine and the Count of Eu of the House of Valois

K

King René Leaves for the Joust with the Duke of Alençon

Knight

Mark the Evangelist

Marriage Supper of the Lamb (top) and Last Judgment (bottom)

Matthew the Evangelist

Mercury Explaining that a Marriage Must be Based on Love (Venus in the centre) Accompanied by the Three Graces (Frontispiece)

Messengers Ready to Take Anna’s Letter

Miniature to the Office of the Dead

N

New Testament (Frontispiece)

Nimrod in Front of the Tower of Babel under Construction

Nobleman (probably Wolfert Van Borssel) Visiting the Author (the translator?)

O

Opening of the Canon of the Mass

Opening of the Canon of the Mass

Opening Page of the Gospel According to St John (In Principio)

Opening Page with Historiated Initial (probably Pope Gregory the Great)

P

Pastoral Scene

Pawn

Peasant Dictating an Address to a Boy

Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Receiving the Manuscript from Abbot Guillaume Fillastre on January 1457

Presentation of the Manuscript to the King

Prowess and Nobility

R

Reason, Arbitrating the Dispute between Virtue and Fortune (Frontispiece)

S

Score with Historiated Initial Representing the Resurrection

Siege of a Fortress

Signatures of English Nobles on a Manuscript’s Page

Signs of the Zodiac

Solomon Builds the Temple of Jerusalem

St Antoine in the Desert

St Jerome (Frontispiece)

St John in Patmos

St John Kneeling before Christ

St Thomas Aquinas Teaching

Stork

Swordfish

T

The Adoration of the Magi

The Announcement to the Shepherds

The Annunciation

The Annunciation

The Annunciation with the Prophet Isaiah and James the Great (top), the Nativity with the Prophet Daniel and the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Magi (bottom)

The Apparition of the Virgin and Child to St Peter of Luxembourg

The Author at Work

The Author Comparing the Merits of Pleasure, Usefulness and Elegance

The Battle of Roosebeke

The Boy Christ Engaged in a Dispute with the Elders in the Temple (top), the Author, Lactantius (bottom) (Opening Page of Book 4)

The Coronation of Charlemagne

The Coronation of the Virgin

The Creation of Eve

The Creation of the World

The Crowing with Thorns

The Dangers of Love

The Descent of the Holy Ghost

The Doge Presenting the Instructions to Angelo Gradenigo, the Captain of the Galleys Setting off for Beirut

The Eighth Joy of Married Life

The Festival of the Romans and the Sabines

The Flight into Egypt

The Holy Face

The Kneeling Author Presenting his Book to the Young Sovereign

The Last Judgment

The Marriage of Paris and Helen

The Mystical Crucifixion on the Tree of Life

The Nativity of Christ

The Presentation at the Temple

The Raising of Lazarus

The Story of Chilperic

The Trinity Enthroned (Opening Page)

The Trojans Founding Four Cities: Venice, Cycambre, Carthage and Rome

The Uprising of the Counts of Flanders

The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels Appearing to a Knight

The Visitation

The Wooden Horse Taken into Troy

Third Battle between the Greeks and the Trojans

Title Page Including an Image of Petrarch

Trinity in Glory

V

Virgin and Unicorn

W

Whale

Avicenna and the Translator of his Work, Represented by a Monk Below (Initial of book 3)

Canon, Ibn-Cina (Avicenna), 1343. Parchment, Latin, 42 x 26 cm, Italy

Chronology

15th Century B.C.E.:

First illuminated manuscripts of papyrus in Ancient Egypt.

2nd Century:

Creation of the codex (bound book). The codex that will not truly supplant the scroll (a roll of parchment or paper) until the 4th century. More hard-wearing, the parchment, elaborated with animal skin, will replace the papyrus.

6th Century:

First illuminated manuscripts in the codex of Western monasteries.

6th Century-8th Century:

The “insular art” (“of the islands of” Ireland and Northumbria) stands out by the creativeness of its Gospel adornements, with designs of plants and mosaics. The Merovingian manuscripts of linear style are modelled on Antiquity and Byzantine art to illustrate prayer books and lectionaries. The main centers of production are the monasteries of Fleury, Tours (Val de Loire), Luxeuil (Burgundy) and Corbie (Picardy).

8th Century:

The work of the first British historian, Bede the Venerable (c. 673-735), entitled Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum introduced for the first time an historiated initial in a manuscript.

8th Century-10th Century:

Carolingian Renaissance: setting of the main principles of the art of illuminated manuscripts. Rationalising the decor (naturalistic figural art), focused on the initial capital and a few miniatures. Enriching of the material: prepared manuscript with purple background, decor of gold and silver (The Purple Gospelbook). The thematic of the codex spreads to profane texts (Bestiary). Flourishing art at the court of Charles the Bald (Sacramentary of Saint-Amand), but in other places as well as the Rhine Valley, Tours, Rheims and Metz.

13th Century:

The French illuminated manuscripts set the laws of the Gothic style for the whole Western world. Keen interest on architectural forms, brights colours (blue, red, white), quest for the volume and movement (Psalter, 1218-1242). Creation of full-page miniatures. The ornementation gains margins which become populated with ivy, grotesques and drolleries. The era of monastic fabrication declines with the advent of urban workshops run by laymen.

14th Century:

Refinement of the silhouettes and elegance of the Parisian School, under the direction of Jean de Pucelle. Flourishing of the illuminated manuscript art in Provence and Catalonia, strongly influenced by oriental taste (Lo Breviari d’amor). In Italy, the illuminated manuscripts of Bologna are done according to the teaching of Giotto: coloured tints, details and perspective (Story of the Trojan War). Straightness of the Germanic-style figures (Book of Chess). Famous Flemish artists (such as the Limburg Brothers, The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry) are drawn by the enlightened patronage of Charles V, the Dukes of Burgundy, the Dukes of Berry and of the Valois Princes.

15th Century: