Portuguese Studies on Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

✍ Scribed by Maria Adelaide Miranda; Alicia Miguélez Cavero

• Publisher: Brepols
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Series: Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge, 76
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the most recent years a group of young researchers has given a new impetus to the study of Book Illumination in Portugal, promoting national and international research that focuses on understanding illuminated manuscripts in both their aesthetics and material dimensions, as well as the relationship between text and image. The developement of interdisciplinary research thanks, in part, to strategic partnerships between the Humanities and the domain of Exact Science has been established to address new issues raised by the need of more comprehensive and wide studies around the illuminated manuscript.

This volume gives thus light to the most important contributions of these new approaches, including new technical studies of pigments in manuscripts of the fund of the Monastery of Alcobaça and three copies of Hugh of Fouilloy’s Book of Birds, inquiries concerning a mismounted mappamundiin the Lorvão Beatus, a study of two southern French legal manuscripts, the image of the artist in astrological iconography, problems raised by two books of hours in the National Library of Portugal, and penwork decoration in fifteenth-century Hebrew manuscripts.

The authors of the volume belong to three Portuguese academic institutions. Maria Adelaide Miranda, Alicia Miguélez Cavero, Catarina Fernandes Barreira, Maria Alessandra Bilotta, Ana Lemos and Luís Ribeiro are integrated members of the Institute of Medieval Studies of the Nova University of Lisbon; Maria João Melo, Rita Castro, Conceição Casanova, Vania Solange Muralhas e Rita Araújo are members of the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the Nova University of Lisbon; Luís Urbano Afonso e Tiago Moita are members of the Institute of History of Art of the University of Lisbon.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ("Contents", "Preface", "Introduction", "List of Contributors"), p. i

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Secrets et découvertes, en couleur, dans les manuscrits enluminés, p. 1
M. Adelaide Miranda, Maria J. Melo
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.000176

The secrets behind the colour of The Book of Birds, p. 31
Rita Castro, Maria J. Melo, M. Adelaide Miranda
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.000177

Mapping the History of a Map. Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Lorvão Beatus World Map, p. 57
Alicia Miguélez Cavero
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.000178

Un manuscrit des Décrétales de Grégoire IX à l’usage de l’université de Toulouse conservé dans les Archives Nationales de la Torre do Tombo à Lisbonne: quelques aspects iconographiques, p. 81
Maria Alessandra Bilotta
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.000179

Le Compendium theologicae veritatis de l’abbaye d’Alcobaça, p. 105
Catarina Fernandes Barreira
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.000180

The Children of Mercury: the Image of the Artist and the Scientist in Medieval Astrological Texts and Iconography, p. 131
Luís Campos Ribeiro
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.000181

Regards croisés des historiens de l’art et des chimistes sur deux livres d’Heures de la Bibliothèque nationale du Portugal, les mss IL15 et IL19, p. 145
Ana Lemos, Rita Araújo, Conceição Casanova, Maria João Melo, Vânia S. F. Muralha
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.000182

Tradition and modernity in Portuguese Hebrew book art of the late 15th century, p. 169
Luís U. Afonso, Tiago Moita
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.000183

Back Matter ("Index of Manuscripts", "Index of Antique and Medieval Authors"), p. 191