Illuminating the Middle Ages: Tributes to Prof. John Lowden from his Students, Friends and Colleagues

✍ Scribed by Laura Cleaver; Alixe Bovey; Lucy Donkin

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 503
• Series: Library of the Written Word, 79
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books. The authors explore some of the themes and questions raised in John’s work, tackling issues of meaning, making, patronage, the book as an object, relationships between text and image, and the transmission of ideas. They combine John’s commitment to the close scrutiny of manuscripts with an interrogation of what the books meant in their own time and what they mean to us now.

✦ Table of Contents

Illuminating the Middle Ages: Tributes to Prof. John Lowden from his Students,
Friends and Colleagues
Copyright
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction
1 Were Early Medieval Picture Cycles Recycled from Late Antiquity? New Evidence for a Lost Archetype of the Apollonius Pictus-An Illustrated Classic
2 Milanese Early Medieval Psalters: Models and Influences from West and East
3 Noli me tangere in the Codex Egberti (Reichenau, c. 977-93) and in the Gospel Book of Otto iii (Reichenau, 998-1000): Visual Exegesis in Context
4 The Green Tinted Souls of Dives and Lazarus in the Codex Aureus of Echternach
5 Portraits of Terence, the African
6 Manuscripts Face to Face: León and the Holy Roman Empire in the Mid-eleventh Century
7 The Two Pictures Cycles in Early Manuscripts of St Anselm's Prayers
8 Early Cistercian Manuscripts from Clairvaux
9 The Imagery of Noah's Ark in the Mosaic Decoration of Monreale Cathedral
10 Some Observations on the Artists of the Leiden Psalter (Leiden, University Library MS B.P.L. 76A) and Their Working Practices
11 A Portrait of Abraham Ibn Ezra (Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal MS 1186)
12 The Virgin and Child in the Map Psalter (London, British Library Additional MS 28681)
13 Seeing and Reading the Matthew Paris Saints' Lives
14 Extended Shelf-life: Manuscript Consolidation in an English Monastic Library
15 Domesday in Disguise
16 From Warwickshire to New York via Canterbury: The Travels and Tribulations of the Bible of Richard of Sholdon
17 Virgin, Devil, Bishop, King: Nicola Pisano's Pulpit in Siena and Alfonso x's Cantigas de Santa Maria
18 Of Venerable Teachers and Boisterous Students: Maistre Brunetto and the Arabic Aristotle
19 Lost and Found in the Meditationes Vitae Christi, Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 410
20 Ivory Booklets, Devotion in Cologne
21 Gothic Ivories Unhinged
22 Monks and Ants in the Presence of Death: A Re-reading of Pliny the Elder in Quattrocento Illumination
23 The Ridware Cartulary and the Great Seal of England
24 Sin and Salvation in the Hours of Jean de Dunois
25 Harreteau and His Unfinished Book of Hours
26 Looking Beneath the Surface: Subterranean Space in the Kutná Hora Cantional
27 A Manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris from the Library of the Benedictine Convent of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore in Milan?
28 Bloodlines: Medicine and Cosmology in France, China, and Mexico
Index of manuscripts
General Index