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The medieval calendar : locating time in the Middle Ages / Roger S. Wieck.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Reference Collection CE57 .W49 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wieck, Roger S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pierpont Morgan Library.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
- Calendar--Europe--History--To 1500--Exhibitions.
- Calendar.
- Time in art--Exhibitions.
- Time in art.
- Months in art--Exhibitions.
- Months in art.
- Seasons in art--Exhibitions.
- Seasons in art.
- Civilization, Medieval--Exhibitions.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Breviaries--France--Paris.
- Breviaries.
- Pierpont Morgan Library--Exhibitions.
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Exhibitions.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Manuscripts--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions.
- Manuscripts.
- Calendar art.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Themes, motives.
- Manuscripts--Exhibitions.
- Exhibitions.
- History.
- Europe.
- New York (State)--New York.
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 95 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Locating time in the Middle Ages
- Now and forever: the art of medieval time
- Art of medieval time
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2017.
- Summary:
- "The intricacies of the medieval calendar are examined in this sumptuously illustrated volume, featuring many of the finest examples from The Morgan Library's unparalleled collection. The lucid and concise text explains the complexities of Vigils, octaves, Egyptian Days, Golden Numbers, Dominical Letters, movable feasts and the key role played by the saints days, including the colours in which they are written as well as their rankings and gradings. A thirteenth-century Breviary made for a French queen to use in the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris is fully reproduced, transcribed and analysed to reveal its true meaning. The author shares his step-by-step method to localise a medieval calendar and discover its use. Readers will thus learn how to assess a calendar's roster of liturgical feasts as a key to revealing the place where it was destined to be used."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Now and Forever: The Art of Medieval Time, at the Morgan Library & Museum from January 26 to April 29, 2018"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-93) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781785511073
- 1785511076
- OCLC:
- 982650648
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