Download or read book Mirror In Parchment written by Michael Camille and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the status of visual evidence in history? Can we actually see the past through images? Where are the traces of previous lives deposited? Michael Camille addresses these important questions in Mirror in Parchment, a lively, searching study of one medieval manuscript, its patron, producers, and historical progeny. The richly illuminated Luttrell Psalter was created for the English nobleman Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276-1345). Inexpensive mechanical illustration has since disseminated the book's images to a much wider audience; hence the Psalter's representations of manorial life have come to profoundly shape our modern idea of what medieval English people, high and low, looked like at work and at play. Alongside such supposedly truthful representations, the Psalter presents myriad images of fantastic monsters and beasts. These patently false images have largely been disparaged or ignored by modern historians and art historians alike, for they challenge the credibility of those pictures in the Luttrell Psalter that we wish to see as real. In the conviction that medieval images were not generally intended to reflect daily life but rather to shape a new reality, Michael Camille analyzes the Psalter's famous pictures as representations of the world, imagined and real, of its original patron. Addressed are late medieval chivalric ideals, physical sites of power, and the boundaries of Sir Geoffrey's imagined community, wherein agricultural laborers and fabulous monsters play a similar ideological role. The Luttrell Psalter thus emerges as a complex social document of the world as its patron hoped and feared it might be.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Luttrell Psalter and the Bedford Horae Two Superb English Manuscripts from the Library at Lulworth Castle Dorset and Belonging to the Weld Family and of Nine Very Fine Illuminated Manuscripts the Property of Sir George Holford which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs Sotheby and Co on Monday the 29th of July 1929 written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Luttrell Psalter and the Bedford Horae Two Superb English Manuscripts from the Library at Lulworth Castle Dorset and Belonging to the Weld Family and of Nine Very Fine Illuminated Manuscripts the Property of Lt Col Sir George Holford written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Luttrell Psalter and the Bedford Horae Two Superb English Manuscripts from the Library at Lulworth Castle Dorset and Belonging to the Weld Family and of Nine Very Fine Illuminated Manuscripts the Property of Lt Col Sir George Holford K C V O deceased sold by Order of His Executors which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs Sotheby and Co on Monday the 29th of July 1929 written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Luttrell Psalter and the Bedford Horae written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The World of the Luttrell Psalter written by Michelle P. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most appealing & arresting of medieval manuscripts, the Luttrell psalter was commissioned in the 1320s by a wealthy Lincolnshire landowner, Sir Geoffrey Luttrell of Irnham. Painted in vibrant colour, embellished with gold & silver, the vitality & inventiveness of its decoration is almost unique.
Download or read book The Luttrell Psalter written by Janet Backhouse and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Luttrell psalter is one of the best-known English manuscripts. Written and illuminated in the early 14th century for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell of Irnham in Lincolnshire, it is celelbrated for its long series of attractive marginal illustrations showing scenes of rural life in medieval England. Other pages reveal an illuminator with a lively imagination and marvellous sense of colour. Here Janet Backhouse describes the manuscript's creation and history, and the book is illustrated with over 40 colour and 20 black-and-white photographs..."--Back cover.
Download or read book The Luttrell psalter written by Michelle P. Brown and published by British Library Board. This book was released on 2006 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Luttrell Psalter is one of the British Library's greatest treasures. It is an illustrated manuscript dating from the fourteenth century, and originally made for wealthy landowner Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276-1345). The superbly detailed illustrations provide a rare glimpse on to daily medieval life in Lincolnshire, as well as depicting some truly fantastical creatures and grotesques. This facsimile edition reproduces this magnificent manuscript in full, and also contains a scholarly introduction by Professor Michelle P Brown, putting the work in its historical context. (British Library 2006) Very few people before have had the chance to turn and admire these wonderful pages; now it is open to everyone to do so in the comfort and leisure of their own home. This is a rare opportunity to own a superlative facsimile of one of the greatest medieval manuscripts anywhere in the world, and we anticipate demand to be high.
Download or read book The Lichtenthal Psalter and the Manuscript Patronage of the Bohun Family written by Lucy Freeman Sandler and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent discovery of an unknown fourteenth-century English manuscript in a German Cistercian convent has brought to light an exquisite, richly illustrated psalter, which is analysed and illustrated here for the first time. Although this remarkable find in Lichtenthal Abbey, near Baden-Baden, had been identified as belonging to a group of manuscripts associated with the prominent and royally-connected Bohun family, neither its illustrations nor its relationship to other Bohun manuscripts had until now been fully explored. In tracing the history of the Bohun family and their manuscript patronage, Professor Sandler places the Lichtenthal Psalter as a product of the 1380s in company with three other psalters of similar format, each produced by the closely knit groupt of scibes and artists who worked in the Bohun family residence at Pleshley Castle in Essex. She describes in detail the contents of the manuscript, its text and decoration, and offers evocative descriptions and penetrating interpretations of the meticulously depicted images that illustrate the Calendar, the Psalms, and the Office of the Cross. The author also examines in particular the style and execution of the historiated initials and bas-de-page Old Testament scences that illustrate the psalms in a continuous narrative sequence from the Creation to the Life of Moses. She compares these to the pictorial programs of the related Bohun psalters, and provides further evidence for the identification of the scribes and artists whose skill and inventiveness created one of the most outstanding group of illuminated manuscripts in fourteenth-century England. Every full-page miniature in the Lichtenthal Psalter is here reproduced in colour and in the size of the original. In addition there are enlarged detail reproductions in black-and-white of many of the intricate and tiny figure compositions that illustrate the biblical narrative, as well as comparative illustrations of other related Bohun manuscripts. The latter are listed in full, with relevant literature, in an Appendix.
Download or read book The Psalter of Robert de Lisle in the British Library written by Lucy Freeman Sandler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major examples of 14th-century English illumination, the Psalter of Robert de Lisle is among the outstanding treasures in the British Library. The new paperback edition includes the complete illustration cycle reproduced in colour, each miniature being accompanied by the same detailed introductory text as in the original edition. The illustrations are preceded by a compre- hensive introduction treating the style and iconography of the miniatures in the context of contemporary English painting, analysing the pictorial and textual components of the unusual and elaborate moral and theological dia- grams, and offering conclusions about patronage, date and provenance. An appendix provides a handlist of more than thirty manuscripts containing the same group of diagrams, known as the Speculum theologie, with a group of additional copies research since the first edition. This edition also has a new preface and postscript which evaluate recent research bearing on the manuscript, as well as an updated bibliography. 'The Psalter is one of the masterpieces of English Gothic Illumination from the first half of the four- teenth century ... Sandler's book is a welcome contribution to the Literature.'
Download or read book The Luttrell Psalter written by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
