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2010Paperback, 300 p., 14 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503531564. L'abbaye de Vaucelles, pres de Cambrai, etait une des plus grandes abbayes cisterciennes, comptant parfois des centaines de moines et convers. L'edition des chartes de l'abbaye pour le XIIe siecle (176 chartes, dont 125 inedites) permet de voir la croissance de l'abbaye, l'extension de son domaine, l'etablissement d'un reseau de relations sociales (comtes de Flandre, de Hainaut, de Vermandois, de Soissons..., duc de Lotharingie, eveques de Cambrai et de Noyon), la mise en place d'une politique d'exemptions de peages. Dynamique, l'abbaye commence aussi progressivement a ecrire elle-meme les chartes qu'elle recoit, et developpe un archivage systematique. Languages: French.
1997softcover couverture carton illustree, 220 x 280mm., 391pp., illustration profonde en n/b et en couleurs. ISBN 2 503 50686 0. Trace d'usure au couverture. ISBN 9782503506869. Willem Vrelant (ou Guillaume Wielant) s'affirme parmi les enlumineurs les plus prolifiques des Pays-Bas meridionaux au XVe siecle. Pres de quatre-vingts manuscrits lui sont attribues, parmi lesquels plusieurs oeuvres marquantes de la miniature du bas moyen age comme le second volume des Chroniques de Hainaut de Jacques de Guise, la Vie de sainte Catherine peinte en "ymaiges de noir et blanc", le Livre des Faits et Conquestes d'Alexandre le Grand compile par Jean Wauquelin, la Legende doree de Jacques de Voragine, l'Epitre d'Othea de Christine de Pisan ou les quatre exemplaires du Miroir historial de Vincent de Beauvais. Originaire d'Utrecht, Vrelant s'installe dans la seconde moitie du XVe siecle a Bruges, ou il adhere a la gilde de Saint Jean l'evangeliste en 1454. Ses clients sont des riches bourgeois, des clercs, des fonctionnaires de haut rang comme Jacques de Bregilles, des prelats comme Ferry de Clugny mais surtout des membres de la noblesse. Des personnalites telles que Louis de Gruuthuse, Antoine, le Grand Batard de Bourgogne, Eleonore de Portugal, Juana Enriquez, la reine d'Espagne, ou Charles de Croy lui ont passe commande. Mais c'est avant tout pour les ducs de Bourgogne, Philippe le Bon et son fils Charles le Hardi, dit le Temeraire, qu'il realise ses travaux les plus remarquables. Le nombre de scenes illustrees dans ces volumes depasse largement la production rassemblee autour des miniaturistes attitres du duc de Bourgogne. Le "corpus Vrelant" est vaste mais surtout complexe. Sur la base d'une nouvelle classification, les manuscrits qui en font partie sont decrits et etudies sur le plan historique, codicologique, textuel et iconographique. En outre, la presente publication tente de degager les lignes maitresses du travail de cet enlumineur dont l'identification a entraine diverses polemiques. De nombreux aspects de sa production sont passes en revue, notamment ses rapports avec d'autres miniaturistes.
2003Paperback, VI+421 p., 9 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503507217. Le manuscrit, issu de la bibliotheque ducale, fait allusion a des evenements qui se sont produits entre 1454 (date du recit du Banquet de Faisan de Lille et du "registre" des voeux prononces par le duc et les nobles) et 1463/64 (date de la Bulle de croisade de Pie II et de l'Epitre a la Maison de Bourgogne). Il a du etre etabli a ce moment, dans un contexte difficile, pour rassembler des arguments en faveur d'une croisade a laquelle Philippe le Bon etait sur le point de renoncer. Les voeux, en partie inedits, expriment un sentiment d'appartenance au monde bourguignon, une adhesion aux ideaux de l'Eglise, mais aussi une analyse realiste de la situation. Un index des "vouhans" eclaire la diversite de leurs personnalites et fait vivre un milieu. Loin d'etre consideres domme des "serments apres boire", ces voeux apparaissent, a la lumiere des textes ecclesiastiques, du poeme sur la mort qui clot le manuscrit, comme sinceres et reflechis. Languages: French.
2010Hardback, 280 p., 460 b/w ill., 210 x 300 mm, ISBN: 978-2-7177-2396-0 Languages: French . ISBN 9782717723960. At the court of Burgundy, Louis of Bruges was one of the most remarkable bibliophiles of the 15th century. The majority of his collection consists of secular volumes written in French. Copiously illustrated and in large format, the books often deal with classical history and chronicles, and form a homogeneous artistic corpus, created for the most part in Bruges by selected artists. This volume presents, for the first time, Louis of Bruges' corpus of manuscripts in a format that allows for comparisons with contemporary works. Introduced by a synthetic overview, the catalogue contains descriptions grouped by artist, supplemented by some 460 illustrations. French text. A la cour de Bourgogne, Louis de Bruges fut ? apres Philippe le Bon ? le plus remarquable bibliophile du XVe siecle. Ce personnage joua un role politique de premier plan jusqu?a sa mort survenue en 1492, et sa bibliotheque revint a Louis XII. La plupart des volumes sont profanes et de langue francaise ; abondamment illustres et de tres grand format ils se rapportent souvent a l?histoire antique et aux chroniques. Ce sont 75 titres repartis en plus de 110 volumes. Ces manuscrits forment un corpus artistique homogene, puisqu?ils sont principalement produits a Bruges, plus rarement a Anvers ou a Gand, par des artistes choisis. Si certains sont identifies (Guillaume Vrelant, Loyset Liedet, Jean Hennecart ou Lieven van Lathem), beaucoup restent anonymes malgre la qualite de leur art. Certains voient ici leur corpus defini pour la premiere fois par comparaison avec des manuscrits conserves dans d?autres bibliotheques. Les notices, regroupees par artiste, sont precedees d?une presentation synthetique faisant le point sur chacun d?eux. Bati sur des descriptions methodiques et rigoureuses, ce catalogue possede aussi une dimension monographique et propose un vaste panorama de l?enluminure flamande appuye sur quelque 460 illustrations.
2009two volumes; 292 + 255 =560 p., 750 colour ill., 230 x 330 mm, Languages: English, Hardback wih dusjackets , fine condition !. ISBN 9781905375479. This publication is the first to appear in a major new series of catalogues covering all Western medieval illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge, excluding only the manuscripts in the University Library which are being catalogued separately. The entries are based on the most recent studies undertaken by the Cambridge Illuminations Research Project; they are organised geographically by place of origin, and, within that grouping, listed chronologically. The present two-volume catalogue deals with the early manuscripts produced in the Frankish Kingdoms, the splendid, richly illustrated books from the Northern and Southern Netherlands ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, illuminations from the Meuse region, manuscripts both in Latin and the vernacular from the late eleventh to the end of the sixteenth century from Germany, and lastly an interesting group of books from Bohemia, Austria and Hungary. The focus of the catalogue is on the illumination, and includes detailed listings of all miniatures, decoration and ornamentation, which are made easily accessible by the inclusion of an exhaustive iconographic index. Entries also include much information on the textual contents of the manuscripts and on their provenance, as well as the most recent bibliographical references. Every manuscript catalogued is also illustrated, generally with several images, providing readers with a corpus of some 750 illustrations which are all reproduced in full colour.
2006Paperback, XXXII+176 p., 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9782503523798. Le present catalogue des manuscrits notes de la Bibliotheque municipale de Colmar est le premier d?une serie de volumes ayant pour objet le recensement et la description des manuscrits du Moyen Age portant des notations musicales, conserves dans les bibliotheques publiques de France. Il est concu comme un outil d?investigation et de travail au service des historiens, liturgistes, philologues, musicologues et historiens de l?art du domaine medieval. Les manuscrits medievaux conserves a la Bibliotheque municipale de Colmar proviennent, pour la plupart d?entre eux, des couvents, abbayes et monasteres de Haute-Alsace et, en particulier, des communautes religieuses de la ville de Colmar. La bibliotheque de Colmar conserve a ce titre de nombreux manuscrits liturgiques a l?usage des abbayes benedictines de Murbach et de Munster, de l?abbaye cistercienne de Pairis et du couvent des chanoines Augustins de Marbach / Schwarzenthann, enfin une prestigieuse collection de livres liturgiques dominicains ? graduels, antiphonaires, psautiers-hymnaires, processionnaux, pulpitarium ? a l?usage des couvents d?homme et de femme de la ville (Unterlinden, Sainte-Catherine). Une introduction presentant les fonds, leur histoire et leurs particularites, eclaire le cadre historique dans lequel ces manuscrits ont vu le jour ou ont ete utilises. Chaque notice comporte une description codicologique du manuscrit, une presentation des elements permettant de preciser l?origine ou la provenance du volume, la date de sa redaction et son histoire. La description du contenu privilegie les elements susceptible d?eclairer l?histoire et l?usage du livre. La description du contenu inclut un releve de toutes les pieces ou groupes de pieces permettant de caracteriser un usage local ou regional. Tableaux synoptiques et index. Cette collection est une publication de l?UMR 7002 ?« Moyen Age ?» (CNRS) aupres de l?Universite de Nancy 2. Languages: French.
2011Hardback, 446 p., 1 colour ill., 152 x 229 mm. ISBN 9782503542324. This is the first of a projected series of four volumes describing manuscripts and fragments in British libraries containing commentaries on the Latin Aristotle. This volume covers the Bodleian Library and the college libraries of the University of Oxford. It lists 397 items, including portfolios of fragments from more than one original book, dating from the late twelfth century until c. 1500. While many of these manuscripts have come to Oxford from elsewhere in Europe, some as recently as the twentieth century, the majority were made locally and used in the medieval University. Many of them, such as the important Canonici collection in the Bodleian Library, have not been adequately described before, while most of the anonymous commentaries have not been listed at all. Four indexes are provided to facilitate searching the main text. Languages: English, Latin.
2009Paperback, XX+279 p., 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9782503529066. Le present catalogue des manuscrits notes conserves dans les Regions d?Alsace, de Franche-Comte et de Lorraine fait suite au Catalogue des manuscrits notes de la Bibliotheque municipale de Colmar (2006). Il est concu comme un outil d?investigation et de travail au service des historiens, liturgistes, philologues, musicologues et historiens de l?art du domaine medieval. Les quelques 170 livres notes et la cinquantaine de fragments decrits et analyses dans ce volume composent un vaste ensemble sur le fond duquel se detachent les vestiges de l?histoire de la liturgie de la cathedrale de Metz et de quelques abbayes de ce diocese ; la prestigieuse collection de livres liturgiques a l?usage de l?abbaye Saint-Vanne de Verdun et d?autres etablissements religieux de la ville ; quelques temoins epars des abbayes vosgiennes ; les collections franciscaines d?Epinal et de Nancy, enfin un ensemble de livres representatif de la liturgie des dioceses de Besancon et de Strasbourg. Une introduction presentant sommairement les fonds, leur histoire et leurs particularites, eclaire le cadre historique dans lequel ces manuscrits ont vu le jour ou ont ete utilises. Chaque notice comporte une description codicologique du manuscrit, une presentation des elements permettant de preciser l?origine ou la provenance du volume, la date de sa redaction et son histoire. La description du contenu privilegie les elements susceptibles d?eclairer l?histoire et l?usage du livre et vise a donner un apercu exhaustif de certains repertoires, celui des hymnes et les sequences en particulier. Tableaux synoptiques et index. Languages: French.
2011Hardback, XXI+182 p., 39 b/w ill. + 26 colour ill., 178 x 254 mm. ISBN 9782503522883. This collection of essays charts the role of women at the Burgundian court by analysing the ways in which medieval women, such as Isabella of Portugal, Margaret of York, Mary of Burgundy, Margaret of Austria made an impact through their physical, moral and spiritual presence at court. During the absence of the prince these well-educated and internationally experienced spouses, mothers and aunts were put in charge of the courtly household or were in some cases appointed regent of the Netherlandish territories for a limited period of time. The youngest generation of women represented by the sisters and consorts of Charles V and Ferdinand I - now forming part of the extended family network - continued this tradition and took it to Germany, Spain, France and Portugal. The court developed into a kind of 'gender laboratory', in which women actively negotiated their position of power, thus consolidating their influence in politics, diplomacy, education and art. Languages: French, English.
2001Paperback, XVIII+858 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503510019. Cet ouvrage donne la table et les index de la base de donnees de l'ARTEM de Nancy, relatifs a quelque 4.800 chartes originales anterieures a 1121 et conservees en France. Cette table et ces index se constituent comme suit: - Introduction developpee, presentant l'evolution, au moins quantitative, de la diplomatique francaise (evolution chronologique, diversites regionales et typlogiques). - Table generale des chartes, par numero de classement de l'ARTEM. - Differents index: chronologique, auteurs, destinataires, genre diplomatique, sceaux. Ces index renvoient a la liste des chartes.Languages: French.
2010Paperback, XIX+268 p., 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9782503535647. Le present volume propose une description de 190 manuscrits notes conserves dans les bibliotheques publiques de la Region Champagne-Ardenne. Ils forment une collection disparate qui documente les chants et les poesies liturgiques au repertoire de l?ancienne province episcopale de Reims et des dioceses de Langres et de Troyes. Les vestiges les plus anciens sont conserves de maniere fragmentaire ou sous forme d?additions sur les livres de l?abbaye Saint-Thierry de Reims. Le fonds remois se distingue en outre par un bel ensemble d?ouvrages liturgiques destines a la celebration de la messe, tandis que les antiphonaires et breviaires du diocese de Langres (Chaumont, Langres) revelent de nombreux offices propres du sanctoral local ou diocesain. Les collections de Charleville-Mezieres et de Troyes reunissent egalement un ensemble representatif de livres liturgiques a l?usage de diverses communautes cisterciennes et cartusiennes. Les manuscrits champenois se singularisent en outre par la diversite des notations musicales. Si la notation francaise est pour ainsi dire inexistante a Reims, les manuscrits d?origine remoise utilisent, jusqu?au XIIIe siecle, une notation de type messin. En revanche, la notation a points lies et a petits carres dont la collection de la bibliotheque de Troyes conserve quelques beaux temoins semble avoir ete largement repandue dans la partie meridionale de la Champagne. Les collections champenoises offrent par ailleurs de nombreux temoins de notations neumatiques mixtes associant diversement des elements des notations messine et francaise. Une introduction presentant sommairement les fonds, leur histoire et leurs particularites, eclaire le cadre historique dans lequel ces manuscrits ont vu le jour ou ont ete utilises. Chaque notice comporte une description codicologique du manuscrit, une presentation des elements permettant de preciser l?origine ou la provenance du volume, la date de sa redaction et son histoire. La description du contenu privilegie les elements susceptibles d?eclairer l?histoire et l?usage du livre et vise a donner un apercu exhaustif de certains repertoires, celui des hymnes et les sequences en particulier. Index. Languages: French.
2012Hardback in cloth + dusjacket, 2 vol., 560 pages., 750 colour ill., 230 x 330 mm., Languages: English, fine condition !. ISBN 9781905375479. This publication is the first to appear in a major new series of catalogues covering all Western medieval illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge, excluding only the manuscripts in the University Library which are being catalogued separately. The entries are based on the most recent studies undertaken by the Cambridge Illuminations Research Project; they are organised geographically by place of origin, and, within that grouping, listed chronologically. The present two-volume catalogue deals with the early manuscripts produced in the Frankish Kingdoms, the splendid, richly illustrated books from the Northern and Southern Netherlands ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, illuminations from the Meuse region, manuscripts both in Latin and the vernacular from the late eleventh to the end of the sixteenth century from Germany, and lastly an interesting group of books from Bohemia, Austria and Hungary. The focus of the catalogue is on the illumination, and includes detailed listings of all miniatures, decoration and ornamentation, which are made easily accessible by the inclusion of an exhaustive iconographic index. Entries also include much information on the textual contents of the manuscripts and on their provenance, as well as the most recent bibliographical references. Every manuscript catalogued is also illustrated, generally with several images, providing readers with a corpus of some 750 illustrations which are all reproduced in full colour. Review "These volumes triumphantly justify 'paper cataloguing'. [...] The authors and sponsors are to be warmly congratulated and urged to complete a series that makes a fundamental contribution to knowledge." (Catherine Reynolds, in The Burlington Magazine CLIII, March 2011, p. 182) « On ne peut que se réjouir de la qualité de ces deux premiers volumes et souhaiter la parution rapide des tomes suivants. » (A. Châtelet, dans Art et Métiers du Livre 31, Déc 2009-fév 2010, p. 91-92) "The first two beautifully designed volumes of Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge have all the indices and finding aids (including an index of biblical and non-biblical iconography) to facilitate further research. They are brimming with ideas, are full of dissertation topics, and are testaments to the bounty ? intellectual and sensuous or even sybaritic ? spread out before students of medieval manuscripts." (Kathryn M. Rudy, in HNA Review of Books) "This updating of the traditional manuscript catalogue is a very useful addition to the scholarship on manuscripts in English collections, in part because of the precision and brevity of the updated information, but especially because of the sumptuous illustrations, which provide the irreplaceable visual context for the textual information the catalogue presents." (Stephen Clancy, in Speculum 86/3, July 2011, p. 789) "The series will be a landmark in manuscript studies, and one can only hope that further support will hasten further projected volumes." (Rowan Watson, in: The Burlington Magazine, vol. CLIV, 2012, p. 847) "Esta calidad editorial y científica, presentes en los demás tomos y volúmenes que conforman la serie Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge de Harvey Miller/Brepols, es un excelente modelo a tener en cuenta para la edición de futuros catálogos de manuscritos iluminados." (Isabel Escandell Proust, in: Codex Aquilarensis, 29, 2013, p. 289-304) « (?) un instrument de travail précieux pour le chercheur et l?amateur éclairé. » (Marc Gil, dans Le Moyen Age, 1, 2017, p. 207)
2000Bound, black cloth, illustrated dustjacket, 205 x 305mm., 499pp., profoundly illustrated in colour and b/w. ISBN 9782503508788. The subject of this monograph is the prolific mid-fifteenth-century Flemish book illuminator whom Friedrich Winkler first identified and named in 1915 after a richly decorated copy of the statutes and privileges of Ghent and Flanders made for Philip the Good, duke of Burgungy (Vienna, Ost. National-bibl., Cod.2583). While no fewer than 15 codices and cuttings have been ascribed to the painter in the 80 years since Winkler's pioneering essay, there has been no published effort to date to order, analyze, and evaluate the work of the Ghent Privileges Master in the larger context of the history and arts of the Burgundian Netherlands. The monograph's essay is divided into five chapters. The first caracterizes the style of the Vienna Privileges itself and then carefully trace its origins and development. Compositional and iconographic sources, innovations, and problems are identified and analyzed in the second chapter; ancillary decoration -especially decorated initials and floral borders- are described and localized and collaborating miniaturists identified in the third. In the fourth chapter the stylistic evidence obtained in the first three chapters is joint together with that provided by texts and provenances in order to date and localize the subject books and leaves. The final chapter positions those codices and cuttings in the larger context of Flemish illumination in the time of Philip the Good. Following the essay are 334 figures and 141 comparative illustrations and a catalogue raisonne of 30 books and 24 leaves in the Privileges style. A decisive majority of the figures and illustrations have never before been reproduced in the scholarly literature; the physical characteristics, texts, miniatures, provenance, and bibliography of each codex and cutting are described in full detail in the catalogue. Following the latter are appendices that provide the readings and textual authorities for the Hours of the Virgin. Book is in very good condition.
2012Paperback, XII+229 p., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503541860. Dans la veine de la ?« nouvelle histoire militaire ?», cette etude consacree a l'artillerie ?« bourguignonne ?», de la guerre menee par Philippe le Bon contre les Gantois (1451-1453) a la mort de Charles le Hardi devant Nancy (5 janvier 1477), vise a cerner l'organisation d'un instrument militaire alors en plein essor, engendrant d'importantes depenses - relevant egalement des domaines du genie et de la logistique - qu'une administration competente devait encadrer au mieux. Au centre de l'objectif se trouve un personnel sans cesse croissant d'artisans-soldats dont la professionnalisation et la specialisation refletent les changements technologiques auxquels l'artillerie fut alors soumise sous l'impulsion des politiques des ducs de Bourgogne, et, en particulier, de Charles le Hardi, prince desirant disposer d'une artillerie puissante, efficace et a la pointe du progres pour realiser ses ambitions. Languages: French.
Paperback, 450 p., 20 b/w ill. + 6 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503540801. La fondation d'une Chambre des comptes a Lille par Philippe le Hardi en 1386 fut l?un des outils principaux d'integration des Pays-Bas meridionaux a l'Etat bourguignon naissant. Dans le cadre d'un Etat princier bipolaire largement tourne vers le royaume l'institution s'inspira des usages flamands, artesiens et monarchiques, et s'insera dans un reseau de Chambres regroupant Paris, Dijon, Lille et bientot Bruxelles. Tout en controlant plus de 200 comptes, elle traitait une information puisee dans son reseau de correspondants et ses archives, parvenant a elargir son perimetre d'intervention jusqu'au controle des comptes des officiers centraux des finances ducales. La Chambre sut egalement etablir son autorite sur le domaine et les monnaies, et gagna le statut de cour de justice reconnue par le Parlement. Gardienne de l'autorite des ducs, elle ne cessa de rappeler le droit tout en exaltant la puissance de la grace princiere, meme si elle ne put cependant jamais s'assurer le controle reel de l'administration financiere. Languages: French.
Hardback, 2 volumes ., 560 p., 750 colour ill., 230 x 330 mm. ISBN 9781905375479. This publication is the first to appear in a major new series of catalogues covering all Western medieval illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge, excluding only the manuscripts in the University Library which are being catalogued separately. The entries are based on the most recent studies undertaken by the Cambridge Illuminations Research Project; they are organised geographically by place of origin, and, within that grouping, listed chronologically. The present two-volume catalogue deals with the early manuscripts produced in the Frankish Kingdoms, the splendid, richly illustrated books from the Northern and Southern Netherlands ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, illuminations from the Meuse region, manuscripts both in Latin and the vernacular from the late eleventh to the end of the sixteenth century from Germany, and lastly an interesting group of books from Bohemia, Austria and Hungary. The focus of the catalogue is on the illumination, and includes detailed listings of all miniatures, decoration and ornamentation, which are made easily accessible by the inclusion of an exhaustive iconographic index. Entries also include much information on the textual contents of the manuscripts and on their provenance, as well as the most recent bibliographical references. Every manuscript catalogued is also illustrated, generally with several images, providing readers with a corpus of some 750 illustrations which are all reproduced in full colour. Languages: English.
Hardback, 2 vol., 720 p., 900 colour ill., 230 x 330 mm. ISBN 9781905375851. This new publication constitutes Part Two of the multi-volume Cambridge Illuminations Research Project cataloguing all western illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. It covers manuscripts produced in Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, ranging from the early Gospels of St Augustine made in sixth-century Rome, through the carefully designed patristic texts from twelfth-century Tuscany and Lombardy, the great law books of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Bologna, the opulent Books of Hours, elegant Humanistic volumes and enormous Choir Books of the fifteenth century, and finally to the richly decorated and densely ornamented books of sixteenth-century Spain. In addition to the famous treasures, these catalogues include a considerable number of previously unpublished cuttings, among them new attributions to leading artists and exciting discoveries, all of which offer a stimulating source for further research. Every manuscript catalogued is also illustrated, frequently with several images, all reproduced in full colour. Entries for Italian manuscripts are arranged chronologically in the period up to 1200, while manuscripts produced after 1200 are catalogued by region of origin and within that division again by sequence of date. Manuscripts that cannot at present be allocated to a particular region are grouped in a special section, and Spanish books are again catalogued in chronological order. Languages: English.
Hardback, 224 p., incl. 141 ills. with 40 in colour, 235 x 335 mm. ISBN 9780905203911. This richly illustrated volume introduces the reader to the textual and visual tradition of the Corpus of Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, considering the life and work of Beatus in their historical, political and theological background. This richly illustrated volume introduces the reader to the textual and visual tradition of the Corpus. The life and work of Beatus are considered in their historical, political and theological background; styles and locations of production are analysed; the sources of the textual commentaries and the evolution of particular iconographical forms are examined; and finally the Mozarabic and Islamic characteristics of the illustrations are assessed. The startling colour plates show the range of style and form in examples from the earliest Beatus manuscript, the Silos Fragment, to the late Arroya Beatus and the Rioseco Fragment. The monochrome illustrations show comparative material covering influences from the Islamic Mediterranean to the Carolingian and Gothic styles of the North. A Table of Apocalypse subjects, Map, Bibliography and Index are also included. Languages: English.
Hardback, 386 p., incl. 407 ills., 235 x 335 mm. ISBN 9780905203928. This publication is the Catalogue Raisonne of the earliest surviving manuscripts of the tradition of the commentary on the Apocalypse, with reproductions of every illustration in these manuscripts. Following the general introduction to the Beatus tradition covered by Volume I of this five-part publication, the present book catalogues and illustrates the seven earliest surviving Beatus Commentaries which range from the 9th to the 10th century, and for which the monastery of San Salvador de Tabara figures prominently as a place of production: The Silos Fragment, The Morgan Beatus, The Vitrina 14-1 Beatus, The Valladolid Beatus, The Tabara Beatus, The Girona Beatus, The Vitrina 14-2 Fragment. Each catalogue entry discusses the individual manuscript in depth, the location of production, the work of the outstanding - and often identifiable - illuminators and scribes, the manuscript?s codicology, and the currents of influence which find expression in these manuscripts: the pictorial vocabularies of the Mozarabic, Islamic and Carolingian worlds. Languages: English.
Hardback, 319 p., incl. 480 ills., 235 x 335 mm. ISBN 9780905203935. This third volume of the Corpus deals in detail with six manuscripts from the period around the year 1000, discussing the location of production, the work of the outstanding - and often identifiable - illuminators and scribes, as well as the codicology. This third volume of the Corpus deals in detail with six manuscripts from the period around the year 1000: the Urgell Beatus; the San Millan Beatus in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid, which through unfinished, preserves the style of Castile and Leon in the significant period of the first millenium; the Escorial Beatus, notable for its heavy opulent frames; the Facundus Beatus, Madrid, named after the scribe and perhaps master of the Fernando and Queen Sancha of Castile; the Fanlo Beatus in New York, which survives in only few pages copied in the seventeeth century by Lastanosa, as he himself attested; and the exceptionally beautiful San Server Beatus in Paris, probably made in Gascony. All the illustrations in these manuscripts are reproduced to provide a visual conspectus of exceptional richness. Each catalogue entry discusses the location of production, the work of the outstanding - and often identifiable - illuminators and scribes, as well as the codicology. Importantly the currents of influence which find expression in these manuscripts are examined: the pictorial vocabularies of the Mozarabic, Islamic and Carolingian worlds, a fusion which gives these works their strange potency. As in Volume II Professor Williams carefully analyses the style and relates each manuscript to the system of Branches into which these works were set by earlier scholars. A short, general, historical introduction to the manuscripts explains the evolution of the characteristically Spanish pictorial vocabulary. Every inscription has been transcribed, and the volume includes an exhaustive Bibliography and relevant Tables. Languages: English.
Hardback, 416 p., 542 b/w ill., 235 x 335 mm. ISBN 9780905203959. This publication is the fifth and final volume in the series that catalogues and illustrates all extant manuscripts of Beatus's Commentary on the Apocalypse. It is a tradition that originated in the monastery of San Toribio in the valley of Liebana, where the monk Beatus compiled his commentary on the Book of Revelation in 776 A.D., and that had its last manifestation in the stylistically exuberant manuscript in Paris, the Arroyo Beatus, produced shortly before the middle of the thirteenth century. Six illustrated Commentaries and one fragment are catalogued in the present volume. The spectacular Rylands Beatus in Manchester, dated around 1175 and the Las Huelgas Beatus in New York, made some fifty years later, contain the most complete cycles of illustrations, and both also have links with the Castilian capital of Burgos. The Cardena Beatus, which has a more complex origin, is now divided between four different collections, though a major part of the manuscript is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Also catalogued is the sophisticated Romanesque Beatus of Navarre in Paris, as well as the only Commentary produced in Portugal ? the Lorvao Beatus now in Lisbon. The fragment also included here, consisting of a single folio plus part of another, found its way from Medina de Rioseco to Mexico in the 16th century, and by chance contained illustrations that allowed it to be identified as part of a Beatus Commentary of the early thirteenth century. In addition to the author?s Introduction and detailed catalogue, the volume includes a corpus of more than 500 illustrations. As in the catalogues of earlier periods, all inscriptions contained in the manuscripts have been transcribed, and an overview of apocalypse subjects illustrated in all 26 surviving manuscripts can be seen on the clearly presented Table. The exhaustive Bibliography is here updated and there is an Index. Languages: English. Until 31/03/2013 available at 132 euro.
Paperback, IX+322 p., 28 colour ill., 215 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503516769. The multi-volume project responds to long-standing lacunae in Old French text study and Arthurian scholarship, in that it aims to provide a linguistically and scribally authentic text of a single illustrated Arthurian manuscript; in this case, it is one that has never before been edited, collated, or translated. Since research on text, language, and manuscript may be impeded by editorial policies operative in older editions of medieval narratives and since viewing the manuscripts directly is often difficult or impossible, the editorial board set protocols for the Lancelot Prose of 229 editions that would address the need for authentic, accessible texts, packaged with ancillaries to address a variety of reading and experience levels. At the same time, the board wished to take into account the potential of electronic images to enhance scholarly work and teaching based on the editions. The idea of a strictly 'diplomatic edition' was discarded in light of digital technology's ability to provide high-resolution images of an original that are useful for close private study and public viewing. Thus each edition provides a useful, portable, authentic reading of Old French Arthurian narrative that is supported externally by online electronic images and internally by a selection of wonderful illustrations and a variety of ancillary materials and essays developed through years of study and teaching based on Yale 229. The Mort begins with the return of Bohors from the quest of the Holy Grail and narrates the declining fortunes of King Arthur and his Round Table through the dissolution of the Table and the 'death' of Arthur. The tale includes Morgain's efforts to convince Arthur of Lancelot and Guinevere's adultery, Lancelot's battle to save Guinevere from burning at the stake, the dramatic discovery of Guinevere and Lancelot by Arthur's knights, the departure of Arthur from his kingdom to fight Lancelot, and Arthur's leaving his Kingdom, the keys to his treasury, and his Queen in the hands of the treacherous Mordret. In the closing folios, Arthur is mortally wounded by Mordret at the apocalyptic Battle of Salisbury Plain, and Lancelot returns to avenge Arthur against Mordret's two sons at the final Battle of Winchester. The book closes shortly after the death of Lancelot, with a rejection of the life of court and chivalry in favor of penance and spiritual fulfillment. Languages: English, French.
Paperback, IX+135 p., 73 b/w ill., 215 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503516776. Brepols' multiple-volume series The Lancelot Prose of Yale 229 includes illustrated text editions of l?Agrauains, La Queste del Saint Graal, and La Mort le Roi Artu, along with a collection of essays based on the thirteenth-century manuscript, Yale 229, housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. An additional collection of essays, a guide to the decoration of the manuscript, and a searchable corpus text are projected for the series. Languages: English.
Paperback, XVIII+344 p., 28 colour ill., 215 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503516783. This edition of the Queste del Saint Graal offers researchers, teachers, and students a definitively authentic edition of the thirteenth-century text as a source for narrative, manuscript culture, language, and linguistics. Like La mort le roi Artu, its predecessor in the Brepols Prose Lancelot of Yale 229 series, this volume supports reading, research, and teaching with name and word glossaries, extended notes to the text, an introductory essay, and a "Works Cited" of primary and secondary resources of interest to the Queste. Alison Stones?s comparative study and detailed collation of the decoration of illustrated Queste manuscripts provide a unique and indispensable resource of Queste manuscript art and its connections to the narrative. Languages: English, French.
Hardback, 160 p., incl. 24 ills., 210 x 275 mm. ISBN 9781872501154. The first part of the Index of Images catalogues manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and this first fascicle deals with imagery in collections Additional to Digby. In this new series of fascicles, all images contained in English Late Gothic manuscripts from libraries throughout the world will be catalogued according to a carefully prescribed template, described, classified, indexed and often illustrated. The series will provide a 'pictorial index' to the wide-ranging subject matter illustrated in manuscripts of the period and act as a unique reference tool for students of history, literature, sociology, religion and art. Facscicle 1, the first of three devoted to manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, catalogues more than 360 15th-centure manuscripts. The volume also includes an introductory essay on the project, a detailed glossary of subjects and terms, and exhaustive indexes of (i) Authors and Texts; (ii) Pictorial Subjects and (iii) Manuscripts with Coats of Arms. Languages : English.
