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Hardback, 192 p., incl. 24 ills., 210 x 275 mm. ISBN 9781872501178. The first part of the Index of Images catalogues manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and this second fascicle deals with collections Dodsworth to Marshall. This book is the second in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. This was a prolific period in the history of English book production, and the range of subject-matter illustrated is of significance of all historians, whether of art, religion, costume, natural science, and above all social custom. The manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, are the first to be catalogued. These are listed here in alphabetical order of the Library's collections, and the present volume deals with all the imagery in collections Dodsworth to Marshall. A third volume will complete all material found in the Bodleian Library. The catalogue is introduced by a helpful User's Guide which explains the basis for research and the categories of subject-matter adopted by the editors. Entries are numbered consecutively for ease of reference, and every illustration is noted, from full-page narrative miniatures and historiated initials to king's heads, marginalia and nota bene signs. Languages : English.
Hardback, 144 p., incl. 12 b/w figures, 210 x 275 mm. ISBN 9781872501277. The first part of the Index of Images catalogues manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and this third fascicle deals with collections Musaeo to Wood. This book is the third volume in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. This was a prolific period in the history of English book production, and the range of subject-matter illustrated is of significance of all historians, whether of art, religion, costume, natural science, and above all social custom. The manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, are the first to be catalogued. These are listed here in alphabetical order of the Library's collections, and the present volume deals with all the imagery in collections Museao to Wood and hereby completes all material found in the Bodleian Library. The catalogue is introduced by a helpful User's Guide which explains the basis for research and the categories of subject-matter adopted by the editors. Entries are numbered consecutively for ease of reference, and every illustration is noted, from full-page narrative miniatures and historiated initials to king's heads, marginalia and nota bene signs. Languages : English.
Paperback, 176 p., 19 b/w ill., 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9781905375226. This is a new volume in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. This was an important period in the history of English book production, and the range of subject-matter illustrated is of significance to historians of art, religion, literature, costume, natural science, and social custom. The present volume catalogues manuscripts in institutional collections in New York City, including the collections of the Morgan Library. The catalogue contains entries for 79 manuscripts and notes the subject-matter of every illustration in each manuscript, from full-page miniatures and historiated initials to marginalia, added drawings and nota bene signs. A comprehensive index of pictorial subjects provides readers with complete references to the visual material with thematic groupings making the following categories easily accessible: animals, birds, Christ, costume, kings, medical and musical instruments, occupations/professions, personifications, saints, Virgin Mary, weapons and women. The volume also includes a User's Guide, an extensive glossary of subjects and terms and indexes of authors/texts and manuscripts with coats of arms. Languages : English.
Paperback, 234 p., 23 b/w ill., 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9781905375370. Languages : English.
Paperback, 128 p., 36 b/w ill., 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9781905375813. This is the sixth volume in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. This was an important period in the history of book production in Britain, and the range of subject-matter illustrated is of significance to historians of art, religion, literature, costume, natural science, and social custom. The present volume extends the survey to Wales and catalogues not only English manuscripts in Welsh collections but also Welsh manuscripts, including those held outside Wales. The catalogue contains entries for 128 manuscripts and notes the subject-matter of every illustration in each manuscript, from full-page miniatures and historiated initials to marginalia, added drawings and nota bene signs. A comprehensive index of pictorial subjects provides readers with complete references to the visual material with thematic groupings making the following categories easily accessible: animals, architecture, birds, Christ, containers, costume, furniture, kings, musical instruments, occupations/professions, plants, saints, tools, Virgin Mary, weapons, and women. The volume also inclids a user?s guide, an extensive glossary of subjects and terms, including Welsh terms, and indexes of authors/texts and of manuscripts with coats of arms. Languages : English.
Hardcover, pictorial boards, 175pp., 22.5x31cm., illustrated throughout in col. and b/w;, fine condition. Exhibitioncatalogue on early-medieval maunuscripts.
Bound, Pages: 303 p. illustrated in color. fine condition. new. ISBN 9789042929159. From the 16th to the 19th century, illuminated manuscripts were collected by the great printer-publisher Christophe Plantin and his Moretus successors and descendants. Ranging in date from the 9th to the mid-16th centuries, the manuscripts in the Museum Plantin-Moretus come from all over Europe, chiefly the Southern Netherlands and France with a significant representation of 15th-century Dutch illumination. More surprisingly, about a quarter of the collection comes from England: manuscripts of the 10th to 15th centuries that left the country with Catholic refugees. Alongside the acknowledged masterpieces and rarities, like the Bohemian Bible of 1402, are volumes that have remained virtually unknown, their aesthetic appeal and historical or textual interest often passing unnoticed in the absence of published reproductions. In this beautifully produced catalogue, each of the 102 volumes is illustrated in colour, with more extensive coverage of the 55 volumes with the most rewarding illumination. For the first time it is possible to gauge the extent and nature of this fascinating and under-explored collection, still housed in the building on the Vrijdagmarkt in Antwerp to which Plantin moved his famous sign of the Golden Compasses in 1576. Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 20 - Low Countries Series 15.
Paperback, 500 p., 50 b/w ill., 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9781905375639. Languages : English.
Paperback, IV 548 p., 25 b/w ill. 30 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm,Languages: French. ISBN 9782503544687. Commanditaire cultive et original, Rene d'Anjou montre un interet pour toutes les formes de l'art. Non seulement auteur, mais aussi lecteur, spectateur, concepteur ou metteur en scene et jouant meme son propre role dans le cadre de ses funerailles et de ses tombeaux, le prince apparait comme le personnage central de la creation artistique a sa cour. Dans cette perspective, il s'agissait d'etudier ici la relation des arts figures et de l'art dramatique, et plus largement le dialogue entre les arts. Cependant, il convenait de depasser les reflexions d'Emile Male sur l?influence des Mysteres sur les arts visuels et d?abandonner une vision de la production artistique en terme d?ascendance et de hierarchie. Les interrogations ont donc porte principalement sur les processus de creation des images, leur fonctionnement et leurs significations et sur une problematique de transmission culturelle. Les arts figures, la litterature ou l'art dramatique participent en effet de references communes, traitent les memes sujets et soulevent parfois des questions identiques, mais selon des modalites d?expression differentes. Souvent, des interferences se creent entre plusieurs langages ? ecrit, visuel ou oral ?, jouant ainsi sur les sens possibles de l'oeuvre et mobilisant la culture du lecteur et/ou du spectateur. Les exemples retenus ont des lors contribue a preciser la pluralite de ces interactions qui questionnent en permanence sur le statut, le role de l'image et sa relation a d'autres media. Cela a aussi permis de mettre en valeur la personnalite de certains grands artistes de la fin du Moyen Age dont la polyvalence et la culture ont seduit le prince.
Hardback, IV 800 pages ., 450 b/w ill. 32 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm, Languages: French. ISBN 9782503543154. De tous les ecrivains du Moyen Age, Christine de Pizan est celui dont le plus grand nombre de manuscrits originaux sont conserves, certains autographes, les autres realises sous sa direction. Ces cinquante-deux manuscrits forment donc un ensemble inestimable et representent un objet d?etude d?une exceptionnelle richesse d?enseignements, tant pour les historiens du livre et les codicologues que pour les historiens de l?art ou de la litterature. Fruit de trente ans de travaux menes par Gilbert Ouy et Christine Reno, auxquels s?est jointe l?historienne de l?art Ines Villela-Petit, l?Album Christine de Pizan a beneficie du precieux concours d?Olivier Delsaux, James Laidlaw et Tania Van Hemelryck, ainsi que des conseils avises de Marie-Therese Gousset, pour offrir une etude complete du corpus des manuscrits de l?auteur. Les peintres enlumineurs et les ornemanistes a son service, pourvus de nom de convention lorsqu?ils n?en avaient pas encore, sont aussi etudies, beaucoup pour la premiere fois.
Hardback, XVI 240 p., 23 b/w ill. 14 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9782503545493. Materially engaged readings of medieval manuscripts that build up such concepts as the philology of smell and touching the past through sensitivity to the handling of books. This collection of essays makes an original contribution to medieval manuscript studies through deep engagement with the material side of book creation. The volume brings together major scholars of medieval manuscripts with leading contemporary book artists. The result is a ground-breaking collection which will be of interest both for its methodological implications and for the insights that the case studies provide. In a sequence of interconnected essays, experts in the field of literature, history, art, and manuscript studies enact readings of medieval manuscripts that incorporate extreme attention to the materiality of the object of their study. While the digital revolution has provided unparalleled visual access to medieval manuscripts, these essays are attentive to what has got left behind-not just the aura of the original, but also the engagement of the other senses, such as the feel of the binding, the heft of the volume, the smell of the parchment, or the sound of the pages. By bringing together experienced medievalist scholars with practicing book artists of today, this volume brings back an artisanal sense of the complete book to an understanding of medieval manuscripts.
hardback, cloth. with dusjackets, 2 volumes., 1130 pages ., 838 b/w ill. 77 colour ill., 230 x 330 mm, Languages: English, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France. ISBN 9781872501956. This book traces the cultural context of book illustration, its production, owners, and makers in the various regions of France in the last third of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth centuries. The period c. 1260-1320 marks the emergence and the flowering of what has come to be known as the ?courtly style? in French painting, whose dynamic vitality is manifest throughout the region we now call France. By the end of this period French art had assimilated a rich variety of regional works and styles. New texts had been introduced to a range of patrons, and patterns to be played out in the following centuries were in place. This book traces the cultural context of book illustration, its production, owners, and makers in the various regions of France in the last third of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth centuries. While the royal, courtly, academic and ecclesiastical patrons were critical to the cultural and artistic production of the capital, books made in provincial centres manifest an independence and originality that can be attributed to fruitful interaction with neighbouring cultures?the linguistic, literary, and artistic traditions of England in the north and west, Navarre, Aragon, the county of Barcelona and the Kingdom of Majorca in the Pyrenean regions, and the Empire along the eastern borders, from the principalities of North Italy and the Alpine regions to Burgundy, Hainaut and Flanders. Ecclesiastical boundaries cut across political divisions, contributing different sets of allegiances that impacted upon book culture in other ways. The Provinces of Reims and Tarantaise included fiefs of Empire, while Narbonne (to 1317) encompassed dioceses in Aragon, and the Provinces of Bordeaux and Tours lay in part in lands held by the English. The religious orders and the universities offered other sets of governing structures and vehicles of influence and reception. Royal and courtly patrons took their place in this period alongside churchmen and women and layfolk from the burgeoning bourgeois class, many of whom are known from ownership notes or inventories. Yet some of the finest books of the period were made for people whose identity remains obscure. Similarly the names of craftsmen?scribes, decorators, illuminators?are often known from their signatures in the books they made or from payments and other records, yet many distinguished works are the products of anonymous creators. These years witnessed an explosition in the range of texts that were deemed worthy of illustraton, extending far beyond the usual liturgical and devotional material to include works of science, medicine, law, philosophy, history and literature in verse and prose, offering a wealth of material for comparative study which is only beginning to be exploited in modern scholarship. This book is organized according to production in regional centres based on stylistic analysis and by comparative tables of the illustration of liturgical and devotional books, and a selection of romances, legal and historical works. Part 1 comprises the Introduction, the Lists of the Producers (scribes, illuminators and decorators) and Patrons whose names are known, followed by a Catalogue of Manuscripts made in the North (Paris and the Province of Sens, Normandy, the Province of Reims). Part 2 contains the Catalogue of Manuscripts made in the East, South-East, South-West, West and Centre, followed by the Comparative Tables and Index of Manuscripts Cited. Alison Stones is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a membre correspondant etranger of the Societe nationale des antiquaires de France.
Hardback , IX 542 p., 280 b/w ill. 19 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, Languages: English.Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History . ISBN 9781905375677. This book provides an extensive in-depth study of the figural painting produced in Flanders during the 13th century.This is the first comprehensive and in-depth study of the earliest figural painting ever to have been produced in Flanders on a continual basis. Most of the manuscripts are Psalters, but Bibles, a Breviary, a Missal, a Netherlandic life of a saint, and yet other texts occur. Three main categories of illuminator are distinguishable: those working in Bruges, in Ghent, and, at least in part, for the circle of the counts of Flanders. The principal chapters and the catalog segments are organized around their individual contributions. An arrangement in time and place of the total body of work was obtained through a lengthy and rigorous process of comparison of figural, ornamental and writing styles, codicological and textual features. Several distinctive Flemish patterns of Psalter iconography have emerged; these are presented in tabular form with accompanying commentaries. A surprising amount of information about the early owners of the books, mostly well-to-do members of the laity, was yielded in the analysis for the manuscript catalogs.
Hardback with dusjacket, IV 396 p., 200 b/w ill. 50 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH 69) Languages: English . ISBN 9781905375820. This volume presents a study of the Burgundian court during the 15th century, and provides a forum for new research in various fields. In the course of the fifteenth century, the reputation of the Burgundian court rose to an unprecedented level, catapulted forward by ever growing territorial ambitions and accumulation of wealth. This reached a climax during the reign of Charles the Bold (1433-1477), the living embodiment of the pomp and pageantry of the Burgundian court and a generous patron of the fine arts. Rather than focusing on a single domain, this volume aims to shed light on Burgundian court culture as an organic whole, between the start of the reign of Philip the Good (1419) and the death of Mary of Burgundy (1482). It is intended to provide a forum for new research from the fields of History, History of Art, Literature and Musicology. With contributions (among others) from Wim Blockmans, Herman Brinkman, Barbara Haggh, Andrea Berlin, James Bloom, Till-Holger Borchert, Andrew Brown, Hendrik Callewier, Anna Campbell, Mario Damen, Sonja Duennebeil, Jonas Goossenaerts, Bieke Hillewaert, Andrew Hamilton, Eva Helfenstein, Jesse Hurlbut, Sophie Jolivet, Sascha Kohl, Sherry Lindquist, Jana Lucas, Samuel Mareel, Elizabeth J. Moodey, Klaus Oschema, Kathryn Rudy, Emily Snow, Olga Vassilieva-Codognet, Hanno Wijsman.
softcover, 271pp. illustre. ISBN 9789061943181. Uitgave naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling: Het Utrechts Psalter. Middeleeuwse meesterwerken rond een beroemd handschrift. utrecht, museum catharijneconvent, 31 augustus - 17 november 1996.
Hardbound with dusjacket and slipcase, Orig.-Leinenband mit Schutzumschlag im Schuber, Gr.-8?°, 264 pp. in fine condition. Einfuhrung und Bilderlauterungen von Millard Meiss und Elizabeth H. Beatson zu den Wiedergaben nach der Handschrift des Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
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Hardback, IX+438 p., 23 b/w ill., 175 x 255 mm. ISBN 9780866984324. The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England: Festschrift in Honor of Richard Pfaff, edited by George Hardin Brown and Linda Ehrsam Voigts, consists of sixteen important studies, all dealing with manuscripts produced in medieval England. The first group reflects the meticulous analysis of liturgical manuscripts that characterize the honorand's career. These treat both early and late medieval liturgical concerns and include liturgy for Gilbertine lay brothers, a lost treatise by Amalarius, the re-working of an Anglo-Saxon Gospel book; the music for the Vigil of St. Thomas Becket; and the continuity of Processions from Old Sarum to Salisbury Cathedral. Two studies examine the liturgies having to do with saints in Sarum missals and breviaries. The second, historical, section of this volume includes three studies on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Six other analyses concern the high and later Middle Ages: an illuminated crusade manuscript; codicological evidence for revising the traditional dates associated with Gilbertus Anglicus's life and writing; evidence for Bishop William Reed's collection and donation of books to Oxford colleges in the later fourteenth century; anomalous writings in a sermon codex; the records of the private incomes of monks at Westminster Abbey; and a catalogue and analysis of medieval manuscripts containing moral philosophy. New.
Hardcover. 240 p., 85 b/w ill. 16 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, Languages: French, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503529790. Grace a une convention passee entre le Matenadaran d?Erevan et l?Universite d?Aix-Marseille 1, R. Varteni Chetanian a pu etablir le catalogue des manuscrits grecs et des fragments grecs presents au sein des manuscrits armeniens conserves dans la prestigieuse bibliotheque de la capitale de l?Armenie. Au cours de ses sejours a Erevan, elle a sans cesse beneficie du soutien et des conseils des bibliothecaires. Je les remercie d?avoir rendu possible l?elaboration de cet instrument de travail. La presente publication permet de faire connaitre aux chercheurs du monde entier des documents precieux, mais insuffisamment pris en compte par les hellenistes et les armenisants. En particulier, il reste beaucoup a faire dans le domaine des traductions des textes litteraires grecs en armenien. Le Catalogue de R. Varteni Chetanian, qui a par ailleurs publie une remarquable etude sur la traduction armenienne des Homelies sur les Actes des apotres de Jean Chrysostome, donne un moyen nouveau de progresser dans ce champ de recherche. C?est dire que le present Catalogue ne doit pas etre envisage comme une fin ou une cloture. Il doit au contraire etre a l?origine d?autres travaux : travaux d?edition des plus importants textes grecs exhumes par R. Varteni Chetanian ; travaux de numerisation des fragments et des manuscrits, afin de rendre possible leur consultation a distance. Jalon pour l?avenir de la recherche historique et philologique, voila comment doit etre envisage ce Catalogue. Sa confection a ete l?occasion de tisser des liens scientifiques entre l?Armenie et la France. Puissent les travaux qu?il suscitera permettre de poursuivre dans la meme voie et d?approfondir le sillon ainsi trace.
Hardcover. XVI 231 p., 4 b/w ill., 1 b/w tables, 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503523163. This volume discusses the key shift from manuscript to print culture in the history of books, taking The Canterbury Tales, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Piers Plowman as models of the way in which a medieval text's unique tradition influenced its transition from manuscript to print. The forces of the Reformation era did not produce the same effect across the varied textual legacy of the Middle Ages. Every text that made the transition from manuscript to print brought with it a set of concerns, a tendency to address a particular readership in particular ways, a physical presence developed in manuscript culture, all of which might shape the pathways by which a text might arrive in print, and what it might look like when it got there. This study follows The Canterbury Tales, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Piers Plowman from their circulation in manuscript to their presentation in print, in order to track how each of them survived the metamorphosis of the relationship between writers and readers as the new technology was introduced. Taken together, the three case studies demonstrate to scholars of any medieval literature the variety of possible impacts made when texts composed in manuscript culture were prepared for printing. The great force exerted by the technological and cultural developments of the English Reformation, not least the more centralized legislative regulation of the press, has long been central to the study of the history of books. This volume takes into account the ways in which individual textual traditions pushed back or accelerated the forces of early modern reform, producing their own plural reformations.
Hardcover. XVIII 174 p., 9 pl., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: English, French, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503511771. Les articles rassembles dans ce volume ont tous trait aux manuscrits. On y retrouve la preoccupation constante du Pere Boyle d'etudier le codex comme un ensemble et de l'analyser sous divers angles permettant de mieux reconstituer l'histoire du livre medieval. Il utitlise toutes les ressources de la paleographie, de la codicologie, de l'histoire du texte et de sa decoration pour retrouver les traces du milieu d'origine et les indications necessaires pour identifier l'auteur de(s) oeuvre(s) et pour situer les differentes etapes de composition du manuscrit. Le livre medieval est considere comme un objet archeologique qu'il faut etudier dans son ensemble pour retracer son histoire. En lisant les etudes que le Pere Boyle nous livre, on se rend compte que la recherche interdisciplinaire est indispensable pour aborder l'examen d'un codex. Tous les details, meme insignifiants a premiere vue, peuvent apporter un eclairage important. Si la paleographie et l'histoire de l'ecriture latine sont au centre des preoccupations de l'auteur, il entend les resituer dans leur milieu d'origine. Et c'est ainsi qu'il en arrive au concept de "paleographie integrale". Tout chercheur engage dans l'etude d'un manuscrit ou dans l'edition critique d'un texte devrait lire les reflexions methodologiques faites par le Pere Boyle, avant d'entreprendre son travail. Les divers exemples qu'il donne pourront servir de modele a des recherches ulterieures. Tant les philologues que les paleographes, les codicologues que les historiens de l'art trouveront leur bien dans les articles qui ont ete reunis. Apres les avoir lus, ils ne regarderont plus de la meme maniere les manuscrits qu'ils etudient. Puisse cette notion de "paleographie integrale" ouvrir des horizons nouveaux aux recherches futures et faire entrevoir aux specialistes des textes la richesse d'une telle approche. Ce serait certainement le voeu le plus cher de l'auteur de ces articles.
Hardcover. XXIV 444 p., 20 b/w ill., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: English, French, Italian, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503524344. The Festschrift volume Classica et Beneventana, presented to Virginia Brown on the occasion of her 65th birthday, brings together twenty-one insightful new essays by leading scholars devoted to the fields of classical reception and Latin palaeography. The authors investigate a wide-range of topics such as the development and application of the Beneventan script, comparative codicology, uses of early liturgical manuscripts, medieval artes and biblical texts and their readers, and the reception and dissemination of classical texts during the Italian Renaissance. Since 1970, Virginia Brown has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. She is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities in classical reception and Latin palaeography. Her numerous publications on the Beneventan script have dramatically altered our knowledge of the dissemination of this southern Italian book hand from 800 to 1600. Her editorial work for the Catalogus translationum et commentariorum, as a member of the Editorial Board and since 1985 as Editor-in-Chief, has resulted in several learned volumes tracing the fortuna and study of classical authors from antiquity to the year 1600. As editor of Mediaeval Studies from 1974 to 1988, she single-handedly produced tomes noted for their scholarly rigor and acumen. This collection of essays serves as a fitting tribute to a scholar who, via her scholarly research and editorial work, has done so much to advance the fields of palaeography, codicology, and the history of classical scholarship.
Hardcover. 213 p., 23 b/w ill., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: Italian, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503524689. The mystery of writing is that there is nothing mysterious about it. If Saramago is right, then it is obvious that palaeography has not yet found all the keys we need if we are to enter amongst the people who gave form to the thoughts and memories of the medieval world. In order to reveal their identity ? the greatest mystery of all ? it is sometimes necessary to pass over what has already been written, affirmed and maintained, and to return to the sources instead. The ?Memoriali? conserved in the Archivio di Stato in Bologna reveal stories of men and women who created, with pen and quill veritable cathedrals of ink, indelible and sometimes of ineffable beauty. In this volume the names are collected, the commissions listed, where possible the careers and tribulations described of more than 270 copyists documented at Bologna between 1265 and 1270. In short, it is the documentary sources, not the works produced or such as have survived, on which the present book has been based.
Hardcover. XIII 546 p., 2 b/w ill. 4 colour ill., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503525910. The essays collected in this volume focus on a prominent aspect of Anglo-Saxon culture: educational texts and the Insular manuscripts which have preserved them. The English imported manuscripts and texts from the Continent, whilst a series of foreign masters, from Theodore of Tarsus to Abbo of Fleury, brought with them knowledge of works which were being studied in Continental schools. Although monastic education played a leading role for the entire Anglo-Saxon period, it was in the second half of the tenth and early eleventh centuries that it reached its zenith, with its renewed importance and the presence of energetic masters such as AEthelwold and AElfric. The indebtedness to Continental programs of study is evident at each step, beginning with the Disticha Catonis. Nevertheless, a number of texts initially designed for a Latin-speaking milieu appear to have been abandoned (for instance in the field of grammar) in favour of new teaching tools. Besides texts which were part of the standard curriculum, Anglo-Saxon manuscripts provide abundant evidence of other learning and teaching instruments, in particular those for a specialized class of laymen, the Old English laece, the healer or physician. Medicine occupies a relevant place in the book production of late Anglo-Saxon England and, in this field too, knowledge from very far afield was preserved and reshaped. All these essays, many by leading scholars in the various fields, explore these issues by analysing the actual manuscripts, their layout and contents. They show how miscellaneous collections of treatises in medieval codices had an internal logic, and highlight how crucial manuscripts are to the study of medieval culture.
Hardcover. 367 p., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: French, Latin, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503527420. Autant que sa legende, qui traverse, hante ou fascine plusieurs histoires, l?oeuvre d?Abu al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ru?d (1126-1198) est d?une singuliere richesse. Juridique, medicale, theologique ou philosophique, sous forme de traites ou de commentaires, elle est batie d?emblee sur divers pans, en verite peu etanches, et sans doute, pour certains, opiniatrement repris par leur auteur. Elle est en outre solidaire de son legs et de sa propagation, puisque son sort, comme on sait, sera de circuler aussi bien en hebreu qu?en latin entre differentes aires geographiques et culturelles : souvent mutilee, deformee, mais sauvee aussi, tantot forte de sa clarte exegetique, ouverte a un destin de manuel, tantot honnie, ou assumee, pour la puissance de scandale ou la radicalite qu?on y decelait. L?objet du colloque fut d?etudier certains elements cruciaux de cette pensee coherente, mais dynamique, multiforme et accidentee, et de retracer quelques etapes de la Rezeptionsgeschichte de l?oeuvre du Commentateur chez les docteurs juifs et latins.
