Studies in Manuscript Illumination, 1200-1400

✍ Scribed by Lucy Freeman Sandler

• Publisher: Pindar Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 813
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The author is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History emerita at New York University, Institute of Fine Arts , and a leading authority on English medieval manuscript illumination. This volume brings together twenty-eight of Professor Sandler's studies, focusing on illustrated manuscripts produced in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly on the illuminated psalters. They are arranged under four headings, 'Marginalia and Word Imagery,' 'Devotional, Visionary and Self-Images,' 'Illustrated Encyclopedias and Scholarly Texts,' and 'Studies of Individual Manuscripts, Artists and Themes.' The marginal illustrations in the psalters are a topic of particular interest, and there are a number of iconographic studies derived from this material. A second section features essays that look at the effect of manuscript imagery on its viewing, reading, and meditating audience. The third section deals with the illustrated encyclopedias of the period, particularly the Omne bonum , a fourteenth-century manuscript compiled and written by James le Palmer, a scribe in the London Exchequer. A final section deals with a number of manuscripts from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, in particular East Anglian works such as the Peterborough and Ramsey Psalters.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
I A Series of Marginal Illustrations in the Rutland Psalter
II Reflections on the Construction of Hybrids in English Gothic Marginal Illustration
III A Bawdy Betrothal in the Ormesby Psalter
IV The Word in the Text and the Image in the Margin: The Case of the Luttrell Psalter
V The Study of Marginal Imagery: Past, Present, and Future
VI Pictorial and Verbal Play in the Margins: The Case of British Library, Stowe MS 49
Appendix
VII The Images of Words in English Gothic Psalters
VIII Face to Face with God: A Pictorial Image of the Beatific Vision
IX The Image of the Book-owner in the Fourteenth Century: Three Cases of Self-definition
X The Wilton Diptych and Images of Devotion in Illuminated Manuscripts
XI The Chantry of Roger of Waltham in Old St Paul’s
Appendix
XII Notes for the Illuminator: The Case of the
Appendix Notes for the Illuminator in the
XIII
XIV Encyclopedia
Bibliography
XV Illustrations of Canon Law in the ‘Omne Bonum’, an English Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Century
XVI Index-Making in the Fourteenth Century: Archbishop Arundel’s Copy of the Gospel Commentary of William of Nottingham
XVII The Role of Illustrations in James le Palmer’s ‘Omne Bonum’
XVIII John of Metz,
XIX The Historical Miniatures of the Fourteenth-Century Ramsey Psalter
XX Peterborough Abbey and the Peterborough Psalter in Brussels
Appendix
XXI A Follower of Jean Pucelle in England
XXII Christian Hebraism and the Ramsey Abbey Psalter
XXIII An Early Fourteenth-Century English Breviary at Longleat
Appendix
XXIV An Early Fourteenth-Century English Psalter in the Escorial
Appendix
XXV A Fragment of the Chertsey Breviary in San Francisco
XXVI Jean Pucelle and the Lost Miniatures of the Belleville Breviary
Appendix
Bibliography
XXVII The Handclasp in the
XXVIII Bedford in Brooklyn*
Appendix
Index
Acknowledgements